For Kids
Dean Davis teaches how to take high resolution photographs of your 3-dimensional artwork for grant and art show submissions, online sales, and displays. Registration is required.
Visual
Event: Opens October 10
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!
Cultural
Event: October 17
How to Apply for an Artist Grant
Artist Trust Program Manager Lydia Boss provides an overview of how to apply for artist grants.
Visual
Grantee
Apostrophe Spokane
Apostrophe is a student lead group that exhibits LGBTQ+ students, students of color, and women student artists from six local universities and colleges. Apostrophe will be holding its second annual exhibition of curated student work at an independent gallery space, to be announced, during the month of April 2020 with SAGA support.
New Media
Grantee
Factory Town
Ellen Picken and Rajah Bose started Factory Town to combine their interests in visual art and storytelling. With SAGA support, Factory Town will be creating six kinetic sculptures which transform the familiar handheld “Jacob’s Ladder” toy into an over-sized interactive experience on impermanence.
Visual
Grantee
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.
Words
Artist
Kathryn (Kat) Smith
Kathryn Smith is the author of the poetry collection Book of Exodus (Scablands Books, 2017), and several other books. Her collage and mixed media pieces have also been shown in a variety of venues.
Visual
Event: October 19
Spokane Zine Fest 2019
The Spokane Zine Fest is a Saturday, October 19, public event in downtown Spokane celebrating zines, small press books, comics, drawings, prints, cards, and other small handmade paper goods.
Cultural
Program
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.
Visual
Program
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.
Cultural
Program
Public Art
A primary function of the Spokane Arts Commission is coordinating the selection, placement and other planning and design factors of municipal art projects in accordance with the overall municipal arts plan.
Cultural
Program
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.