For Kids
My journey alongside photography has taken me to far corners of the country and continues to push me around the world.
Visual
Artist
New Media
What is new media, you ask? Digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing, art as biotechnology, and more!
Film
Artist
Alize Latoya Smith
My name is Alize Smith, born & raised in Brooklyn, NY, an Air Force Veteran, and a Military Spouse. Currently pursuing my Bachelors in TV Film & Media with a minor in Screen Writing at EWU. I’m a dancer, actress, content creator, writer, model & youtuber.
Visual
Artist
Laura Kaschmitter
Highly influenced by nature and all living things. I believe everything is important and that nothing should be overlooked.
Visual
Artist
Raven Forrest Fruscalzo
Raven has been making pine needle baskets since she was a child. She fell in love with the medium after visiting an exhibit on basketry at a small art museum. She stared at the baskets until she had a rough idea of how they were constructed, then made an attempt as soon as she could get out into the woods.
Music
Artist
Colton Sullivan
Colton is a multi-talented musician. Starting with 15 years of Piano experience, he now creates Music using a wide range of electronic instruments.
Visual
Artist
Andrea Van Voorhis/ Ondriyla
Andrea VanVoorhis is a fine art painter with an MFA degree from Claremont graduate university. She was employed as a professor at EWU Cheney until 2020. She is currently starting her own art business.
Visual
Event: November 5
Lotus Cultural Arts Open House
Lotus Cultural Arts Studio is hosting an all-ages open house dedicated to some of Spokane’s finest Artists.
LCAS is conveniently located downtown in the old Armory Building, one of Spokane’s best held secrets. Home of The Lotus Self Defense Academy, we are located at 202 W 2nd Ave. We have over 4000 sq ft of space that is unlike anything Spokane or the PNW has experienced. Guests will be welcomed to the historical 2nd floor location cultivating a host of cultural art forms and talent from visual arts, culinary, meditation, mindfulness, holistic healing, to martial arts training, classes, events, and more. Lotus Cultural Arts Studio is Spokane’s next great community of curated offerings and a unique approach for artists pioneering a new vision of cultural arts and disciplines.
LGBTQ+
Artist
Nanette Cloud
Nanette is a shapeshifting webwitch who makes intimate and otherworldly comics as an irreverent act of worship to Goddex’s of chaos, change, and fnord.
New Media
Artist
Andrew Young
I am a digital collage artist whos primary interest is scifi/surreal pieces of art using multiple layers of different photos using Photoshop
New Media
Artist
Rachael Alt
I consider myself a pixel manipulator. I specialise in digital art since I was in high school. That was 30 years ago when I began my love of computer graphics.
New Media
Artist
Mary Welcome
Mary Welcome (Palouse, Washington/Idaho) is a multidisciplinary cultural worker. As an artist-organizer, her projects are rooted in community engagement and the development of intersectional programming to address equity, cultural advocacy, inclusivity, visibility, and imagination. She brings a nuanced perspective to the contemporary field, as an organizer working in service to small towns, as a cultural producer across American geographies, and as a facilitator of place-based arts programming.