For Kids
HOTSHOTS is a feature-length comedy that follows a small-town bikini barista with big dreams as she creates the first-ever queer bikini coffee stand.
Film
Grantee
Film
Feature films, short documentaries, upcoming festivals, calls for filmmakers, and more. Mark your calendar for SpIFF, the annual Spokane International Film Festival, going strong for over twenty years. Visit local independent theater gems like the Magic Lantern and Garland Theater, who screen work by local filmmakers.
Native/Alaska Native
Grantee
James Pakootas
James Pakootas is collaborating with Indigenous youth to create powerful narratives that reflect their cultural heritage and vision for the future.
Words
Artist
Sarah Rooney
Sarah is a poet and singer who created “Speakeasy” Open Mic at Bijou on the South Hill March of 2022. They co-organize Foray for The Arts with librarian, Greg Bem.
Film
Artist
Pascal Bostic
Pascal Bostic (they/them/theirs) is a storyteller who focuses on photography, filmmaking, and the written word to share their experiences as a queer, nonbinary, and biracial Filipino person.
Visual
Artist
Ezekiel Schmitt
In 2019 I met the most beautiful, warm, and loving person I had ever met. One day in 2020 my fiancee Jamie encouraged me to do painting for fun. Everything clicked for me. It felt more natural to me than the music I had made for 10 years. It fired a passion in my soul that is burning brighter every day!
Visual
Artist
Shannon Spilker
I was born in raised in Spokane, and have always had a love for photography. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I found a love for nature and capturing the beautiful areas our hometown has.
Film
Event: June 29
The Passing On: Award-Winning Documentary Screening & Director Q/A
This beautiful, poetic documentary explores some of society’s most challenging and fraught transitional spaces.
Music
Artist
Gary A. Edwards
My website contains samples from 14 music CDs I composed including classical, jazz, rock, pop, Latin, R&B contemporary gospel, children’s songs, film sountrack music and more.
Visual
Artist
ARCANO
My work is an alchemic process of my emotional states, ideas, life experiences, spiritual and philosophical concepts, or any other external influence that causes a deep impact on the inside and that needs to be transmuted into image.