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A community art space offering classes, residencies, studio access, and events with a focus on ceramics, woodworking, fiber arts, music, and cultural arts.

Community Print is a member-run, community-supported printmaking studio and creative space operating in downtown Olympia, Washington for over 25 years.

Diverse Events & Creative Arts Yard [or DECAY] is a 3rd space for creatives and technologists and a DIY music & film venue.

ISM Festival is a 3 day, multi-venue experimental performance art festival taking place in Downtown Olympia, WA. It typically happens in mid-September and features music, sound, dance, and performance art - by artists hailing from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Owned by Mikaela Shafer, Maqa Collective's mission is to inspire and motivate brands, artists, and arts organizations to move beyond the confines of traditional marketing strategies.

Moving Parts nurtures the dance community through providing embodied research opportunities, dance performance, and a non competitive and injury preventative learning environment.

The Olympia Arts & Heritage Alliance Museum (Olympia AHA Museum) is a free, publicly accessible, vibrant gathering space where art, cultures, and history converge to honor our past, celebrate our present, and inspire our future. The Museum hosts rotating exhibits, workshops, walking tours, and special programming, and well as visitor and tourism information."

The mission of the Olympia Artspace Alliance is to preserve, develop, and advocate for affordable live, work and exhibitions space for artists in Olympia, WA.

Independent and international film screenings, live music and entertainment, and rotating art exhibitions at the historic Capitol Theater.

The 3rd Thing is an independent, volunteer-run press publishing interdisciplinary and experimental work by artists and writers—primarily Indigenous people, womxn, queer people, and people of color—across books, performances, and collaborative projects.

The Bridge Music Project is a nonprofit dedicated to helping young people create, produce, and share their own original songs as a way of expressing their experiences. Through this work, the organization fosters collaboration, responsibility, initiative, mutual respect, and personal growth.

The Reflecting Pool is a magaZINE focused on featuring the art and stories of artists based in or near the Olympia area.

The Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts facilitates the free and public exhibition of art and performance in Olympia, Washington by hosting gallery exhibitions in underutilized commercial spaces.

The Washington Center inspires audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community.