Tacoma, WA
Tacoma's mural scene reflects the city's working-class grit and its ongoing creative renaissance, with the Hilltop neighborhood providing the most politically engaged public art context and the Museum District's Stadium neighborhood hosting murals that complement the city's world-class glass art heritage. The Brewery District and Proctor neighborhoods extend the city's mural culture into diverse community contexts.
Featured Artists
All artists →Deja Williams
Williams has been Hilltop's visual voice for over a decade, creating murals that document and advocate for one of Tacoma's most historically neglected Black and brown communities. Her MLK Jr. Way work is a visual manifesto for Hilltop's resilience, honoring the neighborhood's history while demanding investment in its future—work that has made her one of the most respected community muralists in the Pacific Northwest.
Kenji Nakamura
Nakamura creates murals that engage directly with Tacoma's identity as the world capital of studio glass art, using the visual language of glass—its transparency, refraction, and color depth—in large-format compositions that bring glass aesthetics to an outdoor medium. His Stadium District work is the most technically innovative mural in Tacoma, creating optical effects on flat surfaces that mimic the visual properties of blown glass.
Ingrid Park
Park has built her practice in the Brewery District, creating murals that document the everyday life of a neighborhood undergoing the transition from industrial to creative use. Her brewing industry heritage murals honor the German and Scandinavian immigrant workers who made Tacoma's beer industry one of the Northwest's most significant in the early twentieth century.