About Us
Welcome to our website, 253 Collective is a retail space for local artists in the city of Tacoma. We opened in March of 2009. The Collective was founded by Tacoma visionary Linda Danforth and is currently a cooperative between local artists.
The goal of the cooperative is to provide a retail location while keeping the cost to each artist as low as possible. Each artist pays $20 a month as a membership payment and has an assigned job (marketing, art rotation etc.). There is no commission collected on anyone’s work so artists receive the full payment when their work is sold. Each artist handles their own bookkeeping (there is no general cash register).
Is the co-op full? No, we currently have several openings for artists at the 253 Collective. The artists as a group decide the maximum number of artists that may be a member and the group also collectively makes decisions about having guest artists.
1901 S JEFFERSON, Suite 100
TACOMA, WA 98402
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