Feb 19 Thursday
Stories are shaped by the ways we tell them. In Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong, go behind the scenes to see how theatre sets bring stories to life. During a career spanning over 50 years, Carey Wong has designed sets and costumes for more than 300 productions, including operas, plays, musicals, and ballets.
This exhibition features scale models of his designs in addition to costumes, set pieces, and stories of Washington’s rich entertainment history. From sketches of an idea to fully realized sets, explore how a designer’s decisions craft the world of a story.
LeMay – America’s Car Museum proudly presents The Birth of the American Supercar, a groundbreaking exhibition guest curated by renowned automotive innovator Steve Saleen. This one-of-a-kind display invites guests on an exhilarating journey through the evolution of American supercars. From early speed pioneers to cutting-edge modern marvels, visitors will experience a stunning lineup of vehicles that have redefined engineering, speed, and style, built by a wide range of American automotive manufacturers like Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Saleen himself, and even some more obscure ones like Vector, Cunningham, and Hennessey. From roaring V8s to sleek carbon-fiber bodies, discover how American automakers pushed boundaries, challenged European rivals, and redefined what a supercar could be. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see some of the most thrilling and historically significant American-made performance vehicles ever built—all under one roof.
Curated by a panel of art jurists, the exhibition features work by more than 20 South Sound artists. With media including painting, drawing, photography and glass art, some of the exhibition’s works provide windows into personal history and collective culture. Other pieces are non-representational.
Taken as a whole, the exhibition challenges us to take an expansive view of Black art as an abundance of unique expressions drawn from the deep well of vibrant community.
The exhibition will run from Feb. 11 - March 13, 2026. Admission is free to the public.
LOCATION:
The Gallery is located in Bldg. 4 at Tacoma Community College, near the corner of 12th and Mildred streets. Visitor Parking is available in Lot G.
HOURS:
Monday: Closed Tuesday - Thursday: 10am-4pmThird Thursday of each month: 10am-8pmFriday: 10am-3pmSaturday - Sunday: Closed
Childhood’s End Gallery presents its annual Studio Sale, featuring discounted and rarely seen works by beloved local artists including Jon Bradham, Sara Gettys, Kathy Gore-Fuss, Chuck Gumpert, Carla Paine, and Mimi Williams. The sale also includes a selection of unique, limited works by Marc Chagall, William Winden, and others. Begin the year with an exceptional find at a rare discount.
Jan 17 - Feb 22, 2026
Free
Childhood’s End Gallery222 4th Ave WOlympia WA 98501
360-943-3724
info@childhoods-end-gallery.com
Now in its 82nd year, the ‘granddaddy’ of West Coast home and garden consumer shows is presented by SkyDADU and features a big line-up of attractions including celebrity antiques appraiser Dr. Lori, gardening guru Ciscoe Morris; the “Shop & Adopt Dog Corral”; the “Yard to Table” area with products and services for the garden, cutting edge 3D printing for the building industry and more than 40 free seminars presented by H&R Block, to name a few.
Hundreds of exhibitors and experts share fresh ideas about housing options, home decor, design and remodeling, D.I.Y. resources, urban farm and garden offerings, pet-friendly attractions and much more.
• Celebrity antiques appraiser Dr. Lori shares her extensive knowledge of potential treasures, heirlooms and thrift store finds submitted by showgoers. Always informative and entertaining, Dr. Lori will host her lively “Antiques Appraisal Comedy Show” at Stage Two on Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21 at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. • The DADU (Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit) housing segment presents income producing opportunities, and veteran homebuilder and DADU visionary Tod Sakai, CEO of SkyDADU, shares the latest information in his "DADU Law Decoded – How It Creates New Opportunity” seminar presentations each day of the show at 1 p.m., located at Stage Two.• The show’s “Yard to Table” feature spotlights vertical gardening for small spaces, raised bed gardening, hydroponic gardening products, flower and bulb sales and more. Gardening expert Ciscoe Morris wows audiences with his encyclopedic knowledge and signature humor on Sunday. Note to dogs and their owners: the show welcomes ticketholders and their dogs to the show Saturday, February 21 – at no extra charge!• The “Shop-and-Adopt Dog Corral” features dog adoptions from Jenni's Rescue Ranch and includes more than 20 dogs and puppies available for adoption. The “Corral” includes exhibitors offering pet-related products and services, including pet “accident” resistant Pet Decorator® hardwood floors. • Versatile “tiny homes” and smaller live/work buildings are attracting a growing number of buyers. Featured models on display come from award-winning DeTray’s Custom Housing, Mount Baker Tiny Homes and Seattle Tiny Homes.• The future of 3D printing in landscaping and construction is here as the Cement Masons and Plasterers Training Centers of Washington highlight the game-changing benefits of this technology for builders, contractors and architects in a major display with a truck-sized boom printer and more.• Attendees of all ages are invited to participate in the popular Emerald City LANFest, building healthy communities through inclusive gaming opportunities. It features PC gaming, console gaming and board games for the entire family.
Discover how a new Nordic food movement has sparked interest in local ingredients and natural materials across borders and artistic disciplines.
New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.
With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.
"New Nordic: Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place" shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends.
Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.
Wintergrass is a four-day, family-friendly bluegrass and acoustic music festival, with concerts and dances at 4 different stages. There are also music education programs for kids and adults, workshops, impromptu jams, and a chance to see and hear some great music.
Get the complete lineup here.
Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.
His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”
Get your deerstalker cap on—the play’s afoot! From multi-award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood) comes a fast-paced adventure about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their killer, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than 40 characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.
Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” This was a lot for John to swallow! In this musical shrine to the consumed twin, named Rose, John welcomes you into a feast of gender through song, storytelling, and a full plate of wordplay.
Created in partnership with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret. Featuring all original music written in collaboration with Emily Bate, John Jarboe, and Pax Ressler.
