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Funding

Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP)

The TAIP is a biennial program to support individual artists who reside in Tacoma in their creation of new artwork and presentation of that work with the citizens of Tacoma.

2019-20 TAIP Funding Recipients

Kristina Batiste
Dionne Bonner
Gabriel Brown
Sarah A. Chavez
Kim Davenport
Alice Di Certo
Kyle Dillehay
Ryan Feddersen
Erin Guinup
Chad Hagedorn
Lucia Harrison
Fumiko Kimura
Nori Kimura
Lisa Kinoshita
Sasha LaPointe
Melinda Raebyne
Elizabeth Reeves
Brian Robinson
Jeanette Sanchez-Izenman
Jamika Scott
Kenya Shakoor
Sharon Styer
Wendy Wahman
Anique Zimmer

Arts Projects

Arts Projects is an annual program which was created to financially support a variety of high quality arts projects throughout Tacoma.

2019 Arts Projects Funding Recipients

Asia Pacific Cultural Center - 21st Annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration featuring Hawaii
Barefoot Collective - Celebrating Ten Years of Community Dance
Centro Latino - Latin Arts Show and Youth Expressions program
Channel 253 LLC - We Art Tacoma
Children's Museum of Tacoma - Art Sparks
Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation - Tacoma Moon Festival
Classical Tuesdays in Old Town - Classical Tuesdays in Old Town 2019
Destiny City Film Festival - Screenwriting Workshop and Panel Discussion
Dru Films - Buffalo Soldiers of the Pacific Northwest
Fort Nisqually Foundation - Crafts of the Past
Happy Fox Studio Jewelry - Modern Womxn - An Exploration
Hilltop Business Association - 6th Annual Hilltop Street Fair
Kareem Kandi World Orchestra - Jazz Concert Series
King's Books - Tacoma Wayzgoose: Letterpress and Book Arts Festival
Latinx Unidos of the South Sound - Festival Latinx 2019
Eastside Neighborhood Advisory Council - McKinley Hill Street Fair
Metropolitan Glass, Inc. - Monkeyshines Project
Orchestral Recital Series of Tacoma - Orchestral Recital Series of Tacoma
Peace Works United/253 Peace Queen Talks - 253 Peace Queen Talks Documentary
Sister Cities Council of Tacoma - Tacoma Sister Cities International Film Festival
Sixth Avenue Business District - Art on the Ave 2019
Tacoma Arts Live - Advancing Culture-Bearing Teaching Artists and Programs
Tacoma City Ballet - Tacoma City Ballet Free Immersion Week
Tacoma Concert Band - Tacoma Concert Band Winter/Spring Concerts
Tacoma Girls Rock - Tacoma Girls Rock Camp
Tacoma Ocean Fest - Tacoma Ocean Fest 2019
Tacoma Refugee Choir - Tacoma Refugee Choir Concert
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center - Harriet Tubman - The Black Swan
Ted Brown Music Outreach - Live It OutLoud
Vietnamese American Community Association - Vietnamese Lunar New Year Celebration
Washington State Historical Society - In the Spirit 2019
Write253 - Louder Than a Bomb - Tacoma Teen Poetry Festival

Arts Anchor Fund

This program supports and stabilizes established arts organizations in Tacoma with budgets greater than $250,000.

2019 Arts Anchor Fund organizations

The Grand Cinema
Hilltop Artists
Museum of Glass
NW Sinfonietta
Symphony Tacoma
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Little Theatre
Tacoma Musical Playhouse
Tacoma Opera
Tacoma Youth Symphony

Applications

Arts Projects

We are now accepting applications for 2020 Arts Projects funding. Download the 2020 Arts Projects application guidelines (PDF) for complete funding information, including eligibility and how to apply.

Application Workshop (optional)

Thursday, October 3, 2019, 5:30 - 7 PM, Tacoma Municipal Building (747 Market Street, 2nd floor, Room 243). First time applicants are strongly encouraged to send a representative to the workshop.

Preliminary Application Feedback Deadline (optional)

October 23, 2019

Application Deadline

November 4, 2019, 11:59 PM

Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP)

The application deadline for 2019-2020 TAIP funding has already passed. Applications for 2021-2022 TAIP funding will be available in late-November 2020. In the meantime, to review the program guidelines and application, you can download the 2019-2020 TAIP application guidelines (PDF) and the 2019-2020 TAIP Budget Page (Excel document).

Arts Anchor Fund

The application deadline for 2019 Arts Anchor Fund has already passed. This funding program will be discontinued after 2019 as Tacoma Creates funding streams are available.