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
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
Mother’s Day Brunch at Indian Summer
May 12, 10am – 2pm
Register by May 3, 360.459.4572
Celebrate mom and join us a brunch buffet featuring bottomless mimosas!
Indian Summer Golf & Country Club Embers Restaurant
5900 Troon Lane SE, Olympia
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
On Seeing Nature – Migratory Edition featuring the Artistry of Molly Hashimoto
Register by May 17
Program May 18, Walk-about 9 – 11am, Presentation 1:30 – 3:30pm
This second in a series of tri-annual art & field sessions to benefit the Tahoma Bird Alliance builds awareness about how seeing Nature through art can lead to be er birding, and how knowledge of urban birds and landscape practices help each of us build more sustainable landscapes that help birds survive.
University of Puget Sound
tahomabirdalliance.org/adult-classes
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
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
Kvitucha: Ukraine in Bloom
April 12 – May 26
April 12 – Opening Reception, 5 – 7pm
Works by local Ukranian artists and refugees of the war in Ukraine.
Beauty can still be created and bloom despite the horrors of war.
Lakewold Gardens
12317 Gravelly LakeDr SW, Lakewood
lakewoldgardens.org
May Day Celebration with Puget Sound Revels
May 1, 6 – 7:30
Free
Join the Puget Sound Revels as they bring to life the ancient agricultural ritual of welcoming spring. Music from the Tacoma-based band Tacomarama. Maypole, singing & dancing.
Wright Park
501 S I St, Tacoma
pugetsoundrevels.org
May Day March & Solidarity Gathering
May 1, 5:30pm
Thurston – Lewis – Mason Central Labor Council, will honor May Day with a march across the 4th Avenue Bridge and a Solidarity Gathering at Traditions Café.
Working people will gather with tenants’ rights groups at the bridge at State Ave. NW and 4th and march across the bridge, calling attention to the housing needs of working families in Thurston County.
Attendees to the special “Solidarity Night” will have the opportunity to learn about the history of the Haymarket Martyrs of 1886 and the International Workers Day their arrests and execution inspired.
Traditions Café
300 5th Ave SW Olympia
tlmlabor.org