Editing Tacoma, Washington (section)

==Arts and culture==

The Tacoma city government adopted a [[percent for art]] ordinance in 1975 to allocate one percent of construction costs on major projects towards the commissioning or purchase of [[public artwork]]. The program was repealed in 1985 following controversy over the use of [[neon art]] in the [[Tacoma Dome]]. It was managed by the Tacoma Arts Commission and later a combined city–council arts commission, but was not enforced for most of its existence.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Cheryl |date=April 22, 1984 |title=1% for Art: Whether you love it or loathe it, it's helping local artists and business |page=E1 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-1-for-art-whether-you/160991324/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Duncan |first=Don |date=November 14, 1985 |title=Tacoma voters brush aside ordinance requiring spending on art |page=B5 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> By 1986, the city had 136 pieces of public artwork.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 20, 1986 |title=Free: View 136 pieces of public art in Tacoma. |pages=10–11 |work=The News Tribune}}</ref> The percent for art program was reinstated in March 2000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Graves |first=Jen |date=March 8, 2000 |title=Tacoma restores 1 percent for art |page=B1 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-tacoma-restores-1-perce/160991512/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Public Art |url=https://www.cityoftacoma.org/government/city_departments/community_and_economic_development/arts___cultural_vitality_division/public_art |publisher=City of Tacoma |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}</ref>

* The [[Museum of Glass]] has a structure standing near the Thea Foss Waterway; the steel cone of the hot shop (glassblowing studio) is one of the most recognizable structures in the city.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} It is connected to the rest of the Museum District by the Bridge of Glass, which features works by Tacoma native glass artist [[Dale Chihuly]].
* LeMay-[[America's Car Museum]] opened in June 2012 and displays 300 vehicles in various exhibits on vintage to modern automobiles. The museum pays respects to Harold LeMay's collection, one of the world's largest, with a permanent display entitled "Lucky's Garage". The rest of Harold LeMay's collection can be viewed at the Marymount Event Center, home of the [[LeMay Family Collection Foundation]].
* [[Tacoma Art Museum]] was founded in 1935 and reopened in 2003 in a new building on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma – forming the "museum district" with the Museum of Glass and [[Washington State History Museum]]. It is considered{{according to whom|date=May 2017}} a model for mid-sized regional museums.
* [[Working Waterfront Maritime Museum|Foss Waterway Seaport]] is a heritage museum that features hands-on displays, a wooden boat shop, as well as a functional dock. The Museum houses the greatest collection of marine history in the South Sound. The seaport museum today is equal parts education facility, boat shop, maritime museum, dock, moorage, and iconic events venue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} Foss Waterway Seaport |url=https://www.fosswaterwayseaport.org/about-foss-waterway-seaport |access-date=April 17, 2024 |website=www.fosswaterwayseaport.org}}</ref>
* [[Fort Nisqually]] Fort Nisqually, the first globally connected settlement on the Puget Sound, was established in 1833 by the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trading outpost. Originally located in what is now DuPont, WA. The Fort you see today was reconstructed in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Civic-minded citizens preserved and donated two of the original structures, the Factor's House and Granary, to the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma. The museum gives residents and visitors a chance to experience what life was like on Puget Sound in 1855.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FORT NISQUALLY |url=https://www.metroparkstacoma.org/place/fort-nisqually-living-history-museum/}}</ref>
* Buffalo Soldiers Museums The museum presents varied accounts of the many challenges and triumphs of the brave African American men who served their country and helped to build and strengthen the Western Frontier with integrity, devotion and pride. The museum is one of only two of its kind in the country dedicated to honoring the Buffalo Soldiers, the other being the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum in Houston.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.buffalosoldierstacoma.org/about.html |access-date=April 17, 2024 |website=Buffalo Soldiers - 9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers Museum |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Washington State History Museum]]s (WSHM), is a part of The Washington State Historical Society, the WSHM partners with our communities to explore how history connects us all.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |website=Washington State Historical Society |url=https://www.washingtonhistory.org/about/}}</ref>
* [[Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium|Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium]], Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) is the only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest. It is nationally accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), which ensures rigorously high standards of animal welfare, veterinary care, conservation, education and more. The Zoo sits within 700-acre Point Defiance Park, offering views of Mount Rainier, the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound. PDZA is operated by Metro Parks Tacoma, the oldest independent park district in Washington.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium: team, mission, vision, history |url=https://www.pdza.org/connect/about/ |access-date=April 17, 2024 |website=Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Pantages Theater.jpg|thumb|right|Tacoma's Pantages Theater, a remnant of the [[vaudeville]] circuit founded by [[Alexander Pantages]]]]
* [[Tacoma Arts Live]] is home to three theaters, two of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. They are home to the Tacoma Opera, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Sinfionetta, Tacoma City Ballet, Tacoma Concert Band, Tacoma Philharmonic, Tacoma Youth Symphony, Theatre Northwest, and Puget Sound Revels (one of ten [[Revels]] organizations nationwide).
* The [[Tacoma Film Festival]] takes place annually at the Grand Cinema.
* Tacoma is home to the first modern legal American [[Cannabis Farmers Market|marijuana farmers' market]]<ref>[https://archive.today/20130216014845/http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/fm/TacomaCannabisFarmersMarket.html "Tacoma Cannabis Farmers Market"], Farmer's Market Online. Retrieved January 27, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.cannabisfarmersmarkets.com/About-Us.html "About Us"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129064201/http://www.cannabisfarmersmarkets.com/About-Us.html |date=January 29, 2013 }}, Cannabis Farmer's Market. Retrieved January 27, 2013.</ref> and also the home to the first [[needle and syringe programmes]] in the nation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sherman |first1=Susan G. |last2=Purchase |first2=Dave |date=2001-04-01 |title=Point Defiance: a case study of the United States' first public needle exchange in Tacoma, Washington |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0955395900000748 |journal=International Journal of Drug Policy |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=45–57 |doi=10.1016/S0955-3959(00)00074-8 |pmid=11275503 |issn=0955-3959}}</ref>
* The Tacoma [[farmers' market]] runs every Thursday, from May through October, in the Theatre District; it was established in 1990. There is also a seasonal farmers' market in the [[Proctor District]] (along [[Sixth Avenue (Tacoma)|Sixth Avenue]]).<ref>{{cite news |last=Sherred |first=Kristine |date=June 12, 2024 |title=Here are 13 farmers markets in Pierce, Thurston counties for local produce, bite of lunch |url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/entertainment/restaurants/tnt-diner/article289191509.html |work=The News Tribune |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}</ref>
* Tacoma hosts part of the annual four-part [[The Daffodil Festival|Daffodil Parade]], which takes place every April in Tacoma, [[Puyallup, Washington|Puyallup]], [[Sumner, Washington|Sumner]], and [[Orting, Washington|Orting]].
* Shakespeare in the Parking Lot performs the works of [[William Shakespeare]] in non-traditional venues and provides theatre education<ref>{{cite news |last=Ponnekanti |first=Rosemary |date=November 11, 2006 |title=Parking Lot provides creatively corporate 'Hamlet' |page=E9 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-parking-lot-provides-cr/160991043/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}</ref>