The City of Tacoma has a wealth of wonderful murals, many of them recent. This one is located at 38th Street & Portland Ave (3804 Portland Avenue) and the lead artist is Chris Sharp. Participating artists include Shanna Duncan, Asia Tail and Patricia Vazquez Gomez.

And interview with Chris Sharp can be found here:

http://www.exit133.com/5139/a-conversation-with-chris-sharp

and more info is here
http://thetelephoneroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/chris-sharp-i-dont-hate-anyone_02.html

More information about the Tacoma Mural Project is here:
http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/murals.asp

As I was taking some photos of the mural, two young men came up to me and asked me to take their photo!