Guaranteed Education Tuition Now Enrolling
through May 1, 2024
Washington’s popular Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program opens Wednesday, November 1 for a new enrollment period, providing families a fresh opportunity to start saving for future education and career training costs while their children are young. The 2023-2024 enrollment period runs through May 31, 2024, and provides a unique opportunity to prepay future tuition costs by locking in today’s rates. The unit purchase price for the new enrollment period is $120.16.
GET is a 529 prepaid tuition program, carrying a state-backed guarantee that units purchased today will always keep pace with in-state college tuition costs. “GET savers can literally buy tomorrow’s education at today’s price.
800.955.2318
Indigenous Matriarchs in the Pacific Northwest Photography Exhibit
February 24 – May 20
Tacoma photographer Roxann Murray will have an exhibition of eight photographs at the Washington State History Museum titled “Matriarch: Portraits of Indigenous Women in the Pacific Northwest Fighting for our Collective Future.”
Washington State History Museum Community Gallery
1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma
washingtonhistory.org
The Current, an Artist Award
Through May 3
During the residency, award recipient Kristina Batiste, a Tacoma-based potter, will be creating new work at Tacoma Art Museum
See the Artist: April 18, 5 – 7pm during Free Third Thursday
Wednesday’s & Fridays – quiet peek-ins outside the studio to view Batiste at work
Aoril 24, 3 – 4pm – Headshots & Images Workshop
Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma
tacomaartmuseum.org
The Treaty of Medicine Creek
February 10 – July 8
From February 10 to July 8, 2024, the History Museum will display the original, hand-written Article III of the 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty that guaranteed fishing rights to Tribal Treaty signers.
This historic document, on loan from the National Archives and Records Administration, remains a powerful reminder of the complexity of the Native American experience—loss, resilience, and triumph across generations of struggle to maintain culture and identity.
Washington State History Museum
1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma
253.373.3500, washingtonhistory.org
WA529 Annual Art Contest: What is Your Dream Job?
Now through May 1
Kindergarten – 12th Grades
Students can enter for a chance to win $529 toward their future education goals in a WA529 GET or DreamAhead account.
To enter, students should create a work of original art depicting their future dream career. Entries will be judged based on creativity, unique style, artistic talent, and skill in portraying the student’s “Dream Job”. Two students in each grade level Kindergarten through 12th grade will be selected to win.
Enter online at: 529.wa.gov/art-contest
Reel Oddities: Son of the White Mare
April 17 & 24, 7pm
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green.
Olympia Film Society
206 5th Ave SE, Olympia
REEL ODDITIES: SON OF THE WHITE MARE | OlympiaFilmSociety.org
Comedy Underground
April 18, 7:30pm
Comedy Underground is back to make you laugh. Each event features a new slate of touring comedians that are sure to make you laugh out loud! Recommended for ages 18+.
Washington Center Black Box
512 Washington St SE, Olympia
360.753.8586
Hands on Children’s Museum After Hours: BeerCraft
April 19, 7 – 10pm
21+
Enjoy a night that celebrates craft brewing and showcases some of the best local breweries, cideries, and specialty beverage purveyors. Explore samples from 14 specialty brewers and chat with the experts as you eat, drink, and play your way through the Museum!
Hands on Children’s Museum
414 Jefferson St, Olympia
360.956.0818
Tickets: Hands On Childrens Museum (blackbaudhosting.com)
hocm.org
JOURNEYS: Quilts from the Contemporary QuiltArt Association & Pacific Northwest African American Quilters
March 15, 5 – 7:30pm, Opening Reception
Exhibit runs March 16 – June 23
Free with required registration
Celebrate the exhibition, JOURNEYS: Quilts from the Contemporary QuiltArt Association & Pacific Northwest African American Quilters and learn more about quilt-making! Attendees will hear from participating artists about the works on display. Light refreshments will be served.
Register: Washington State Historical Society (blackbaudhosting.com)
Washington State History Museum
1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma
washingtonhistory.org