• Seymour’s Kids Club: Dressing the Gilded Age

    Seymour's Kids Club: Dressing the Gilded Age Saturday, October 4, 2025 - 10:30 to 11:30 AM Free with registration Join us for Seymour’s Kids Club every first Saturday! Families can participate in a scavenger hunt exploring Gilded Age fashion and textiles, plus hands-on embroidery and quilt-making fun.

  • Fall Festival 

    Fall Festival Saturday, October 4th. This free community event will feature live performances, local artists and makers, hands-on art activities, and family-friendly fun, all culminating in a screening of Disney's Coco. It's a celebration of creativity, culture, and community you won't want to miss.

  • Kaleidoscope Tacoma Arts Month Opening Celebration

    Kaleidoscope Tacoma Arts Month Opening Celebration October 4, 1-4pm Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma tacomaartsmonth.org Kaleidoscope is Tacoma Arts Month's no-cost opening celebration—an afternoon of live performances, interactive art activities and creative showcases, with local artists and Tacoma Creates organizations, at Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch.

  • Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong

    Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong October 4, 2025.  Washington State History Museum Come behind the curtain and into the imagination of acclaimed set designer Carey Wong. The exhibition celebrates Wong’s artistry while showing how stories come to life on stage.

  • Art Walk

    Art Walk

    Art Walk October 3, 2025, 5-10pm | October 4, 2025, 12 - 6pm Olympia Ballroom Admission: Free

  • Tacoma Art Museum Presents Haunted, Cable Griffith

    Haunted, Cable Griffith Oct 11-June 7th https://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/event/ Haunted Exploring hauntology—the persistent presence of the past within the present—this exhibition embraces cinema as spectral memory, temporal disruption, and the protean meaning of being haunted. This event will also celebrate two additional new exhibitions — Cable Griffith: Uncanny Twilight and Studio Art Glass at Tacoma Art Museum Cable Griffith: Uncanny […]

  • Buhay: The Filipino American Experience

    Buhay: The Filipino American Experience October 16, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM FREE for Third Thursdays Washington State History Museum Join us at the Washington State History Museum to commemorate Filipino American History Month. The word buhay means “alive” or “life” in Tagalog, so this community event will explore how the Filipino community lives and […]

  • Community Art Class: Drawing Dynamic Landscapes

    Community Art Class: Drawing Dynamic Landscapes October 16 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Community Art Class: Drawing Dynamic Landscapes - Tacoma Art Museum Join a community of fellow artists in this immersive workshop designed to help you create landscapes that captivate and communicate. In Drawing Dynamic Landscapes, you’ll learn how to observe and compose environments that engage […]