Volunteer for the Tacoma Arts Commission
The Tacoma Arts Commission Needs You!
The Tacoma City Council is inviting qualified individuals to provide leadership in supporting and enhancing the arts in Tacoma by volunteering for the Tacoma Arts Commission.
If you are knowledgeable and passionate about the arts (literary, visual and performing) and have a desire to positively impact the arts in Tacoma, we invite you to apply.
The 15-member Arts Commission serves in an advisory role to the City Council and helps fund a wide range of cultural projects, including grassroots experiences, individual artists’ works and arts institutions. In addition, they’re responsible for the oversight of the Municipal Art Program that devotes 1 percent of capital construction costs to public art. Commissioners play a vital role directing cultural policy, being ambassadors for the arts, and supporting programs such at Art at Work month that raise visibility of the creative sector.
The Tacoma Arts Commission is especially interested in applicants who live in underrepresented parts of the city and bring diversity to the group. To apply, go to www.cityoftacoma.org/cbcapplication or call Cindy Leingang, (253) 594-7848.
For more information about the Arts Commission, go to www.tacomaculture.org and select The Arts.
2 comments
T Twofivethreezy September 2, 2008
Once upon a time, on an overcast day somewhere in Pioneer Square, sometime back in the late 90’s; a northwest artist and his fellow brotherhood artist comrades then known as the Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, sold one dollar raffle tickets around the local artist community. The grand prize? A small axe, a genuine chihuly peice, and the irreverent joy of hearing peices of sparkling broken maccia shatter to the ground. With no malice intended, the Mystic Sons artists’ statement went something like, “This is aimed at the media and Chihuly’s sycophants. Their circus takes away from more compelling art. The ubiquity of his commercial machine is comical.”
Ghad I long for the second coming of another revolution.
M Michael September 2, 2008
Awesome, more chihuly…