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Recent Acquisitions: Carrie Mae Weems

Tacoma Art Museum’s photography collection currently numbers around 450 works dating from 1905 to the present and includes a range of photographic processes from early...

Ordinary Men—Extraordinary History: A Proud Pullman Porter

In these days of near super-sonic air travel, getting around by “snail-rail” (train) is nearly all but forgotten. However, for the African-American community, rail travel...

Kenzie Jones Reflects on The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

At the age of 14, I started to learn more about the reality of the world we live in. I began actively posting and speaking...

Moe’Neyah Holland Reflects on The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

I had never thought of art as having physical qualities that could be transferred to the viewer — until I had worked with The Kinsey...

The Kinsey Collection x TAM Collaboration: Let’s Do Better

Let’s Do Better exists to educate and raise awareness on the many unshared experiences, injustices and disparities that exists with-in the Black American diaspora. Through...

TAM Store Highlight – How to Visit the Tacoma Art Museum

So, you’re coming to the museum. YES! We cannot wait to have you! If you’ve never been to a museum or, more specifically, an art...

eTceTera x The Kinsey Collection x TAM Collaboration: The Myth of Absence

“In American history, as in American life, Black Americans are invisible presences. They are not seen, not because of their absence but because of the...

The Current Award – An Award Program for Black Artists in the Greater Tacoma Area

Sonia Sanchez once said, “In order for us to survive, you should re-read Toni Morrison every 10 years because every 10 or 15 years, we...

eTceTera x The Kinsey Collection x TAM Collaboration: Grafton Tyler Brown’s “Mount Tacoma”

Photo courtesy of Corey Springer and eTceTera. Mount Tacoma from Lake Washington by artist Grafton Tyler Brown was the first piece of art to be...

eTceTera x The Kinsey Collection x TAM Collaboration: Buffalo Soldier

Photo courtesy of Corey Springer and eTceTera. When we knew that we would be teaming up with the Kinseys and Tacoma Art Museum for the...