The Spokane Arts artist roster is a searchable tool designed to showcase local creatives and connect them with community members seeking artists and makers. Browse the entire roster to discover a new favorite artist or filter by the type of work you’re seeking. You’ll find samples of their work, a description of what drives them to create and links to check out their website or social media. Use the roster to discover the incredible talent living right here in our community. Please note: the artist roster is a free resource directory to find artists. Any local artist can add their information. The artists on the roster are not endorsed or represented by Spokane Arts.
In order to foster a thriving creative community where artists can make a living doing their work, Spokane Arts believes in the importance of paying artists. Too often, creatives are asked to provide time, labor, materials, or finished work for free. While most of us wouldn’t ask an electrician, CPA or nurse to provide their professional services at no cost — knowing they trained and studied to gain expertise — artists are often asked to donate their services. Many artists and creatives do choose to donate their time to causes they care deeply about, but to make a living, doing work for free should be the exception, not the rule. We humbly ask you to keep this in mind when contacting creatives on the roster, and know that you can always ask an artist to give you a cost estimate or written proposal to review. Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask our staff; we’d be happy to help guide you. Contact shantell@spokanearts.org.
I am a hoop dancer, for lack of better words a hula hooper. Have been finding new ways to dance with my hoops, and better my craft over the last six years. I am self taught and would love to share this with my community.
From graphic design, illustration to Pop art creator. Freddy Throne art works with different kinds of medium and content. As a freelance artist Freddy Throne art has designed posters, billboards, logos, and custom designs. The creativity doesn’t stop there , Freddy Throne art continues to work on stories, animations and music. Freddy Throne had worked on a number of projects locally and nationally. You can check out Freddy Throne art on all social media platforms and shop prints and stickers on their website.
Katie Creyts is an artist and Professor of Art at Whitworth University. Her work explores landscape and human and animal interactions. Creyts has exhibited her work nationally. She has an MFA from Illinois State University, a BFA from Tyler School of Art, and has received scholarship for study at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Pilchuck Glass School, and The Studio at the Corning Museum.
Katey Mandley is an artist and art teacher in Spokane, Washington. Katey attended Gonzaga University as a painting student of local legend, Bob Gilmore. Her inspiration comes from what she loves in life and her painterly style and draftsmanship show integrity to the process. Katey is most well known for her portraits, but also enjoys exploring the patterns found in nature.
I record my surroundings through digital media and photography
New to Spokane, I tend to call myself a diehard creative more than an ‘artist’. In the 1980’s I started a cottage industry in bas relief sculpture, both with wearable and wall art. Eventually I returned to my first love of painting, experimenting in oils and acrylic, primarily with color and composition. In those, my ‘Montana years’, I was raising my wonderful daughters as well as keeping up with the occasional life drawing class. I took classes at the U of M in printmaking, history and generally ‘expanding the mind’ as we used to say, and I still say it. Being a creative is a state of mind.
I am an artist, focusing on the intricacies of everyday life. What excites me most about what I make is that I’m on a path of discovery and exploration of paint as subject, object, material, and texture. The paintings have great depth, their surfaces have 100s of layers of paint. It wasn’t until I carved my first gouge that I was hooked. I was able to reveal the history of the painting and what was locked within. The piece had innocence and potential to be something heroic, and full of information and wonder. My love for exploring paint as object is still fueled by that single gouge, however I manipulate the pieces surface with new tools and applications.
Handcrafted Artisan Jewelry. Copper Enamel, mixed metals and sterling silver earrings, bracelets and necklaces.
Kel explores the chaos of consciousness through a variety of mediums, including film photography, drawing, painting, and written word.
I am currently a digital media creator with my ipad. I also do photography, permanent makeup, and tattooing!
Born and Raised in Spokane, Desire attended Gonzaga University for art. Her creative focus is largely reserved for custom client work at this point in her career. Utilizing both hand drawn and graphic work, she creates large scale paintings and murals. In addition, she offers the classic art of hand painted logos and signs.
I’m an acrylic and oil painter who creates art that is meant to generate a connection between the viewer and the work, and also encourages one to view the world from an altered perspective. My paintings are expressive and often surreal, with bold colors, flowing lines, and subjects that have an other worldly, emotional appeal. I graduated from EWU in 1998 with a BA in Education and a minor in art, but I’m mainly self-taught. I’ve been painting consistently for twenty two years and have been showing my work around Spokane since 2007.
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