For Kids
Make a Litter Bug at Art Salvage during a family friendly drop-in workshop. We provide the materials and tools and you make a fun upcycled creation to take home.
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Event: October 12
For Kids
Looking for classes for your child or a family-friendly activity? We can help! If you’re looking for places where your child can take classes or workshops designed for kids, check out Spark Central, Shine Youth Center, or Spokane Art School. Spokane’s public libraries and parks also offer a wide range of free programming for kids and families.
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Event: October 26
Fabulous Masks Make & Take
Make a fabulous mask at Art Salvage during a family friendly drop-in workshop. We provide the materials and tools and you make a fun upcycled creation to take home.
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Grantee
Scablands Books
With support from SAGA, Scablands Books will publish a graphic novel, Baby Speaks Salish, by local writer Emma Noyes. Proceeds will go to the Salish School of Spokane, which is dedicated to keeping the interior Salish languages alive in the face of ongoing colonialism.
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Hannah Pomante, Katie Smith, & Melissa Jones
The three artists are all 2019 graduates from Whitworth arts programs and are collaborating to create and share the work with Spokane’s youth. The goal of the Bird Nest Installation is to provide a place of escape for Spokane’s youth by translating elements of nature into an eco-friendly public art installation.
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Grantee
Writers in the Community
Writers in the Community (WITC) at EWU offers free workshops to audiences as varied as inmates, veterans, men and women in recovery, pediatric oncology patients, and elementary, middle, and high school students.
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Arts Incubator
Spokane Arts’ Arts Incubator program provides support and resources to fledgling nonprofit arts & culture organizations, offering fiscal sponsorship to groups or organizations who don’t yet have their own 501c3 status.
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Visual Arts Tours
Spokane Arts’ three city-wide arts tours feature venues large and small simultaneously hosting artwork, curatorial projects, and performances. Our SATURATE initiative that spotlights artists of color especially deepens the conversation on race, identity, and culture in our city and beyond.
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TheaterFest
TheaterFest is a one-day showcase of the performing arts, featuring short performances, activities and workshops for kids and adults to play, learn, and try something new.
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Poetry Out Loud
Poetry Out Loud builds on the recent resurgence of poetry as an oral art form. Poetry Out Loud competitions teach students to appreciate poetry of all types and encourage them to incorporate great poetry into their lives.
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Arts Month
Each October during national arts and humanities month, we celebrate! Join us for a full month of celebrating arts and culture in our region.
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Grantee
Spark Central
Spark Central is a nonprofit that breaks down barriers to creativity so that people of all economic backgrounds can create the future they imagine. The organization offering transformative programs, access to innovative technology, and a welcoming creative community for people of all economic backgrounds.
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The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC)
Founded in 1916, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture is the largest cultural organization in the Inland Northwest, serving more than 100,000 visitors a year. It is one of Washington State’s five Smithsonian affiliates and are accredited by the Alliance of American Museums.