Local Organizations Promoting or Involved with Art

• Terre-Verte - (Us -- a small Puyallup-based artist's support group - we will help start similar local groups by connecting artists with other artists, and offering advice on how to make a group such as ours a success for the members. Contact us for more information or to get your name on a list)
• Puyallup Main Street Association (they manage Puyallup's Farmer's Market and support arts-related activities throughout the year)
• Puyallup's Arts Downtown Organization (three dimensional outdoor public art installation gallery)
• Valley Arts United (independent non-profit dedicated to appreciation, awareness, exposure to and interaction with the arts; youth involvement opportunities and promoting and providing the means for arts activities in our community)

Local Arts Networks and Other Artist Groups

• TacomaArt Listserv Group (subscribe to receive invaluable information on postings of upcoming events, calls to artists, grant opportunities, live/work space info, jobs in the arts and to have the ability to share info and opinions with other artists, arts organizations, and art lovers)
• Promote Tacoma Arts - Tacoma Art Community Blog (spurred by resonse from a 200 artist / gallery owner / business & city leader brainstorming session on November 28, 2005 at the Temple Theatre in Tacoma that created five task forces to take Tacoma from being a great place to create our artwork, to a great place for the rest of the world to come and buy it)
• Artist Trust Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines. Founded in 1987 by a group of arts patrons and artists who were concerned about the lack of support for individual artists, Artist Trust is shepherded by a 28-member Board of Trustees and a professional staff.

Local Commercial Resources for Artists

• Daniel Smith (artist supplies and paint manufacturer)
• Puyallup Custom Frame and Art, 116 S. Meridian # B, Puyallup, WA (253) 840-4016
• Lucas Art and Frame (picture framing department with personalized services, artist canvas is manufactured, painting workshops)