Tacoma Art Museum is celebrating 10 years in our current building at 1701 Pacific Avenue. Join us for a full day of free birthday festivities; museum admission and all festival events will be free of charge for Saturday’s celebration.
Magician Jeff Evans will mystify us with his skills while the music ensemble Jazz Misfits gets guests into a party groove. Hands-on art activities ramp up the artistic spirit and include decorating a flat Leroy (the museum’s famous dog mascot) and the chance to design your own pop-up flower garden card.
Like to make art with others? Then turn your attention to decorating the community color wheel installation or join the community collage activity in front of the museum on the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Plaza.
11 am Magic performance by Jeff Evans
Noon Performance by Grant Elementary students
12:30 pm Live jazz performance by Jazz Misfits
Tacoma Art Museum moved to 1701 Pacific Avenue in 2003. Architect Antoine Predock saw in Tacoma’s misty, muted light a great opportunity to design a building that almost disappears into its surroundings, much like how Mount Rainier fades depending on the light and weather. The building’s stainless steel skin pays homage to its industrial, port city surroundings as its silver patina glistens in the Northwest’s watery light.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
