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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-4pm
Third Thursday of each month: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-3pm
Saturday - Sunday: Closed

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the Washington State Historical Society invites you to explore the history of building the State History Museum. 30 Years and Counting: The Making of the Washington State History Museum is a special exhibition that uncovers the vision, effort, and community spirit that brought this iconic Tacoma landmark to life.

Discover the bold ideas and architectural ingenuity that shaped the museum’s distinctive look. From early sketches to final blueprints, see how the building’s design reflects both innovation and reverence for Washington’s past. Go behind the scenes of the museum’s construction. Through photographs and artifacts from the building process, witness how a dream took shape—brick by brick, beam by beam.

Staff Picks: 30 Objects for 30 Years

In a special feature area, museum staff share their favorite objects from the collection—each one a personal reflection on the power of history to inspire, surprise, and connect us.

🎷 Jazz Jam at Butter Notes Café 🎷
📍 Butter Notes Café – Everett, WA
🗓️ Every 1st & 3rd Sunday @ 2 PM

☕ Come sip, snack, and swing!

Join us for an afternoon of live jazz and spontaneous creativity at Butter Notes Café! Whether you’re here to play or just enjoy the vibes, you’re welcome.

🧇 Fresh croffles and warm coffee served all afternoon
🎶 Open to all instruments, all levels
💛 Donations encouraged to support local musicians and future sessions

Bring your instrument, your friends, or just your love for music!

Opera for Everyone – Bel Canto Seattle Live

Experience opera without barriers. Suitless in Seattle strips away the formality for an afternoon of powerful voices and raw passion at the Music Center of the Northwest. Free admission — come as you are and enjoy.

Multiple times and locations available. Choose the one that works the best for you. Lessons available in Buckley, Tacoma, Sumner. Lessons beginning the 4th - 8th of February depending on the location. Preregister today.

Square dance is the official state dance for the state of WA. Experience and share in our state's unique history and culture.

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As part of its 20th anniversary season, SIDF proudly presents the 8th annual Winter Mini Fest, featuring a dynamic collaboration between Khambatta Dance Company and Spain–Portuguese Colectivo Glovo. KDC, known for its intricate, bold, and athletic choreography, joins forces with Colectivo Glovo, a company celebrated for its inventive, interdisciplinary approach to performance. Over the course of an intensive five‑day creative residency in Seattle, the two companies will merge their artistic voices to craft a brand‑new work, offering audiences a rare glimpse into the excitement of international collaboration unfolding in real time.

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.

“I feel like there are two sides of me,” says Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sunny War of her 2023 album Anarchist Gospel. It’s a dichotomy reflected in her moniker and her musical projects – she was the bassist in the LA-based, all-Black femme punk band FUPU, but her solo work is rooted in acoustic blues traditions. She’s a dexterous guitar player, adapting banjo finger-plucking techniques to her chosen instrument, and she pulls elements of gospel, the avant-garde, and folk into her take on roots music.

The Biamp Portland Jazz Festival is a ten-day, multi-venue celebration of jazz presented in Portland, Oregon at over 30 venues throughout the city. The Festival is dedicated to evolving America’s art form, featuring recognized jazz masters and rising jazz stars, alongside local jazz heroes.

The 2026 lineup:
ST VINCENT :: MAVIS STAPLES MADELEINE PEYROUX :: BILL FRISELL TRIO :: MONONEON + MOHINI DEY :: JEFF PARKER IVTet + SML :: TIGRAN HAMASAYAN :: CYRUS CHESTNUT :: CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO :: ROGER ENO :: BRANDON WOODY'S UPENDO :: DELBERT ANDERSON :: JARROD LAWSON :: ISAIAH SHARKEY :: LADY BLACKBIRD :: MITCHUM YACOUB + JUNGLE FIRE :: SAM GREENFIELD :: COCHEMEA :: CHARLIE BROWN III :: STUMPTOWN SIRENS JAZZ ORCHESTRA :: BLUE CRANES :: SHIRLEY NANETTE :: DRECKIG :: SHELLY RUDOLPH :: ALAN JONES TRIO :: FOAMBOY