For Kids
SAGA will support Zhang as she establishes a permanent space to choreograph Chinese dances and train dancers to continue offering performances.
Dance
Grantee
Artists of Color
Cultural
Grantee
Nicholas Sironka
Sironka will bring a series of half-day batik art workshops and Maasai lectures to Spokane Schools in 2022.
Music
Grantee
Lucas Brookbank Brown
Brown is receiving support from SAGA to record and produce of a compilation album featuring original songs from four local individual emerging artists.
Words
Grantee
Latah Books
Latah Books is working to position itself as one of the emerging and independent literary destinations for memoirists, while diversifying the authors they promote.
Visual
Artist
Eric Sanchez
I am an abstract artist, working primarily in paint, collage and print making. I’m also a high school teacher, father, soccer coach and an advocate for the environment and all peoples.
Dance
Artist
Azia Johnson
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.
Arts Therapy
Grantee
Impanda Music Studios & Community Space
Impanda is, a 501c3 nonprofit organization providing healing-focused music and arts programs.
Cultural
Grantee
The Family Guide
The Family Guide will be working with AAPI artists, performers and culture bearers in the Spokane community to create a free, community-based arts and culture exhibition.
Film
Grantee
Sean Lizama, Milestones Media
Lizama’s new documentary aims to give voice to a group of five Marshallese youth, all high school dropouts at high risk from marginalized families.
Visual
Artist
Joshua Murillo
I record my surroundings through digital media and photography
Cultural
Grantee
Northwest Winterfest
Northwest Winterfests’ Celebration of the Holidays is a single event that spans eight weeks starting November 1, 2021 in Mirabeau Meadows Park.
Visual
Artist
Mel Hewitt
Mel Hewitt is a book artist working her way towards becoming proficient in all aspects of the book arts. Her skills currently lie in traditional and contemporary binding structures and finishing techniques, paper marbling, paste papers, and incorporating letter press, screen printing, and relief printing into her pieces. Mel’s work ranges from utilitarian one-of-a-kind journals to sculptural artist books. She enjoys teaching her craft to others and offers classes both privately and through the Spokane Print and Publishing Center.