Are you an artist or creative in Tacoma? Are you looking for space, work, information to grow your business, cultural events or activities here in Tacoma? Spaceworks has gathered the top resources we suggest here.
Design & Marketing
Design & Marketing
Photography
Photography
Providing high quality, professional photography for business in the PNW: including headshots, branding, commercial and industrial photography, products. Also specializing in studio portraits of all kinds and wedding photography!
Nallayer Studios is a Tacoma-based photography studio specializing in journalistic and lifestyle wedding photo and video solutions, including portraits, corporate events, and also helps small businesses.
Photography Services for brands, products, people, and events.
Pacific Northwest Visuals provides premium quality real estate marketing services for residential and commercial with the fastest turnaround times for photography, videography, drone footage, and 3D virtual tours.
Financial & Taxes
Financial & Insurance
Our goal is to provide financial services to local small businesses and help educate our community on the importance of financial understanding as a business owner. We provide this service by teaching financial literacy, providing bookkeeping, tax preparation support and accounting support.
Business Insurancer
We offer accounting, bookkeeping, tax filing, tax strategizing, business planning, business consulting, payroll, and so much more! We are a ONE STOP SHOP for all of your business needs.
Operations & IT
Operations & IT
We offer mission-driven HR, Operations, and Development consulting, including employee handbooks and grant writing, for nonprofits and small businesses.
We provide full service fractional HR, payroll, and employee benefits solutions to small and midsized businesses.
Information Technology & Security Support
SSM Law PC is a modern, certified women- and minority-owned boutique law firm that provides high quality services at competitive rates. We work with business on business formations, contracts, and intellectual property protection to help build and protect your business.
Coaching & Strategy
Coaching & Strategy
We are a non-profit that provides an opportunity to nurture carefully selected, smaller, locally owned firms and emerging entrepreneurs through their formative years. Providing technical assistance resources, mentorship and connections.
For people tired of stress, who want more joy and well being, our online courses and coaching sessions introduce habit-forming mindfulness practices that they can integrate into their everyday life.
Andy Vargo, Own Your Awkward provides small business coaching and personal life coaching as well as other services such as motivational speaking, workshop facilitation, emcee and auctioneer services, comedy and entertainment, and marketing collaborations.
I offer Metaphor Mindset Studio, a one-on-one coaching program for artists in business. A 5-step process of online curriculum and coaching to help artists understand business, set goals, and make progress in their creative practice. Curriculum includes: Build Your Art Website on Squarespace (I help you); Artist’s Media Kit MasterClass; Build a Vision for your Art Career; Embrace Impostor Syndrome, and more.
Business Strategy consulting and business coaching.
Space Providers
Looking for Space?
The Spaceworks Coworking program provides affordable space for artists and entrepreneurs to launch, grow, and — perhaps most importantly — meet other makers.
Rent a small community space space for business and non-profit meetings, events, workshops and more.
Urban Grace rents office space to organizations and individuals that fall within their facility’s mission of education/advocacy, the arts, social services, or worship. They also rent event spaces for weddings, performances, seminars, small concerts, and more.
We are experienced with office building development, occupancy statistics, leasing, building operations, energy consumption, legislation and more. We understand both sides of the owner/tenant equation and can deliver the right solution to suit your needs.
We are an open fine art studio where you can do all of that and more. Here you can work individually or alongside fellow artists, get feedback, learn from one another, and chat to connect. Artsi is a wide open space to work on larger projects, and where dripping paint is allowed.
The Union Club is a coworking space contributing to Tacoma’s growing artistic and entrepreneurial communities. It combines an artist studio, event hall, and office coworking space, in a 15,000 square foot historic building in downtown Tacoma.
We provide flexible and attainable real estate solutions tailored to professionals at every stage. Whether you’re seeking coworking memberships, rentable recording studios, meeting spaces, or private suites, we have the perfect space to support your business needs.
The Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) is a member-owned cooperative providing commercial real estate multiple listing services. CBA provides members with current commercial listing information and to help increase their productivity.
LoopNet is the leading mobile and online real estate marketplace that connects tenants and investors to commercial real estate available for sale and lease.
Local classifieds and forums – community moderated, and largely free.
Our Community Partners
The City of Tacoma’s Arts & Cultural Vitality Division supports the cultural sector in Tacoma in a variety of ways including funding programs, public art, professional development, and special programming. The office has two branches: Arts and Tacoma Creates.
By doing business in Tacoma, you’re investing in a vibrant, international city with prime access to Pacific Rim markets, a bustling downtown, and affordable real estate.
Connects artists and arts organizations with the legal community. They help make legal resources accessible to artists and arts organizations of all disciplines.
is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow, and succeed nationwide. Their dedicated volunteers represent over 3,000 years of experience across 62 industries. SCORE provides resources, templates and tools to assist entrepreneurs in developing tools and plans they need to navigate their way to small business success. Workshops and appointments available at Bates Technical College.
Business Impact NW empowers a talented and diverse community of entrepreneurs; supporting the continuing growth of local small businesses through micro-enterprise. They offer coaching, training and lending.
The best way to stay informed about Tacoma’s art scene! The TacomaArt listserv is a two-way email list where subscribers receive and can post information regarding upcoming events, calls to artists, grant opportunities, live/work space info, and jobs in the arts. The list reaches 1200+ artists, arts organizations, and art lovers.
Provides grants and resources to artists of all disciplines in Washington state and offers a robust website full of calls for artists, resources, job listings and so much more. Their website is available 24/7 for you to visit, we encourage you to check it out!
Provides an applied training environment that supports military veterans’ entrepreneurial aspirations and promotes their understanding of the modern startup lifecycle. Their videos of brown bag discussions provide useful information for veteran entrepreneurs. Local entrepreneurs could attend these free Brown Bag Series, which are Tacoma-based workshops on various topics hosted Wednesdays on UW Tacoma campus.
Impact Washington is a non-profit organization that strengthens Washington manufacturers to make them more globally competitive. With our manufacturing experts and our network of industry resources, we provide the change that makes the difference between surviving and thriving. They provide training, consulting, and strategy building services.
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