Neighborhood Nights | Thursday, Oct. 9 | Tacoma Art Museum, 5–8 p.m. (Free)

All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street.

Every Thursday, Tacoma Art Museum throws open its doors for Neighborhood Nights — free admission, late hours, art-making in TAM Studio, and rotating programs with community partners, artists, and scholars. It’s the perfect evening to wander the galleries with a friend, a date, or just your own curiosity, letting art and conversation drift into the night air.

What’s on view:

Gossip: Between Us — women and queer artists transforming “gossip” into storytelling, solidarity, and power.

tomakesenseofitall — sculpture, ceramics, and painting about memory and relationship, closing soon on Oct. 19.

Echoes of the Floating World — the lingering influence of Japanese ukiyo-e printmaking on modern vision.

The Abiqueños and The Artist — the dialogue between Russel Albert Daniels and Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico.

BLACKNESS IS…the refusal to be reduced — contemporary Black artists defining freedom through multiplicity.

Nepantla: The Land is the Beloved — borderland narratives of rupture and belonging.

Finding Home: The Chinese American West — resilience and reclamation in Chinese American histories, including Tacoma’s own.

Cooler Pairing: Holy Mountain The White Lodge
After you drift from canvas to canvas, make your way to Peaks & Pints and open Holy Mountain The White Lodge — a luminous Belgian wit brewed with wheat, pilsner malt, and oats, accented by coriander and orange peel. It’s citrus and light, floral and contemplative — a beer that tastes like gallery air and quiet revelation, brewed for nights when art lingers long after you leave.

LINK: Pesks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory