the arts

Funding

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Calendar of Funded Events

Click on the calendar link below for a listing of community arts events happening in 2010. These events are funded in part by the Tacoma Arts Commission.

2010 Calendar of Arts and Culture Events

Funding Applications

The Tacoma Arts Commission's three funding programs are not accepting applications at this time.

Current Funding Programs

Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP)
The TAIP is a biennial program to support individual artists who reside in Tacoma in their creation of new artwork.

2009-10 TAIP funding recipients:
R.R. Anderson
C. Rosalind Bell
Victoria Bjorklund
Becky Frehse
Robin Jaecklein
Matthew Johnson
Maria Jost
Fumiko Kimura
William Kupinse
Steven McElrath
Chandler O'Leary
Amy Reeves
Claudia Riedener
Tammy Robacker
Mauricio Robalino
Nick Stokes
Chholing Taha

The 2009-10 Tacoma Artists Initiative Program application deadline has passed but, to review the program guidelines and application, you can download the 2009-2010 application here (PDF).

Arts Projects
Arts Projects is an annual program which was created to financially support a variety of high quality arts projects throughout Tacoma.  

2010 Arts Projects funding recipients:
Click on the organization name to link to their website.

6th Avenue Business District
 - Art on the Ave
Asia Pacific Cultural Center
 - 12th Annual Asia Pacific New Year celebration
Auricle LLC
 - Slam Town: urban drama webisodes
D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts
 - Reality Check Dance Troupe & youth outreach
Exquisite Disarray Publishing
 - First book poetry contest
Fulcrum Gallery
 - Here and Now exhibit
King's Books
 - Wayzgoose: A letterpress and book arts festival
Northwest Playwrights Alliance
 - Tacoma Little Theatre: Second Stage Northwest
Old Town Business and Professional Association
 - Classical Tuesdays in Old Town
Proctor Farmers Market
 - Music program at Proctor Farmers Market
Puget Sound Poetry Connection
 - Distinguished Writer Series
Roosevelt Dancers
 - Cambodian classical/folk dance
Second City Chamber Series
 - 2010 SCCS Tacoma performances
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Theatre Company
 - Shakespeare-a-thon: A 2-night, 8 play history cycle
SoJust
 - SoJust 2010 festival
Tacoma Art Place
 - Community art instruction series
Tacoma Concert Band 
 - Tacoma Concert Band 2010 winter, spring & summer concerts
Tacoma Farmers Market 
 - Performing arts at the market
Tacoma Pierce County Sister Cities
 - Sister Cities International Film Festival

The 2010 Arts Projects application deadline has passed but, to review the program guidelines and application, you can download the 2010 Arts Projects application (PDF) here. 


Anchor Fund
This biennial program supports and stabilizes established arts organizations in Tacoma with budgets greater than $200,000.

2009-2010 Anchor Fund organizations:
Acoustic Sound
Children’s Museum
Grand Cinema
Hilltop Artists In Residence 
Museum of Glass
NW Sinfonietta
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma
Musical Playhouse
Tacoma Opera
Tacoma Philharmonic
Tacoma Symphony
Tacoma Youth Symphony

Past Funding Recipients

Tacoma Arts Initiative Program (TAIP)
Click here to see a list of funded 2007-2008 TAIP artists (PDF).
Click here to see a list of funded 2005-2006 TAIP artists (PDF).
Click here to see a list of funded 2003-2004 TAIP artists (PDF).
Click here to see a list of funded 2001-2002 TAIP artists (PDF).

Here's what some of the past TAIP funding recipients are up to now:

Kevin Miller (2008)
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press is pleased to announce the publication of Home & Away: The Old Town Poems by Kevin Miller.

In these poems, Kevin Miller drafts people, characters, images and events out of their familiar locations and contexts and weaves them into new situations, creating unexpected connections, original experiences. Miller invites us into his town, shares its truths and textures. And in the generous spirit of the man and poet, these poems are also an invitation to all of us, in whatever way we can, to forge and populate an old town of our own. 

You can purchase the book directly from Pleasure Boat Studio, amazon.com, or bn.com. $15.

Arts Projects
Click here to see a list of funded 2009 Arts Projects (PDF)
Click here to see a list of funded 2008 Arts Projects PDF)
Click here to see a list of funded 2007 Arts Projects (PDF).
Click here to see a list of funded 2006 Arts Projects (PDF).