Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, screenprinting, photography, architecture, textiles, crafts, and so much more. If you love the visual arts, don’t miss First Fridays, presented by the Downtown Spokane Partnership. Find your new favorite gallery via our interactive art map.
First Friday at The Gallery at Entropy (101 N Stevens), featuring local painter, Daniel Lopez, aka Godffiti. “World War Me” artist reception First Friday June 2, from 5-9pm, show runs June 2-July 3
Saranac Art Projects is pleased to present Louise Kodis and Becky Busi.
We are thrilled to announce Stepwell, a sculpture by J. Meejin Yoon of Höweler + Yoon, located in Riverfront Park, north of the Providence Playscape is now open to the public! Stepwell is an interactive sculpture that uses a renewable resource (mass timber) as its primary material. Comprised of 68 individual pieces, each hand-carved and machined, all precisely engineered to fit together like a puzzle, Stepwell explores a new, more climate-conscious way to think about our built environment. Stepwell will invite the community to sit, climb, and enjoy the unique space it creates within the park. Visitors will move through the interior of the sculpture via an ADA pathway or climb its steps to experience an elevated view of the Spokane River.
The Root Experience is a 2-night festival featuring BIPOC talent from various cultures and disciplines. The festival celebrates regional filmmakers, artists, culture bearers, musicians, and the stories they weave through their art. The goal is to uplift their narratives of culture, family, beauty, and resilience to create a network that empowers living stories and heals elements of the past and present. When talking about indigenous cultures, we must recognize the borders (state & continental) that have been placed by the act of colonization. In doing so, people of the same/ similar cultures have had their homelands divided and people they love placed on opposite sides of these borders. The Root Experience is hoping to help erase these borders by decolonizing art and social practice, providing safe and inclusive spaces to present, while connecting, partnering, and sparking conversation with our communities in the Pacific Northwest (defined as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Alberta (CAN), and British Columbia (CAN)).
ACES // Artists of Color Expo & Symposium is a BIPOC-led, community-curated program featuring art exhibits, live performances, presentations, workshops, film screenings, artist talks, and artist opportunity tables. We are coming together with intentionality to value our work and see one another as resources, while focusing on the challenges and solutions we face as artists of color in the Pacific Northwest.
Climbing Eros – a series of 17 paintings made of foraged inks by Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton. The paintings were created as part of making the film Climbing Eros, a short documentary that explores the stages of pilgrimage through the eyes of director Charles M Pepiton and his young son who walk the length of a Greek island—from the deserted lighthouse on one end to the peak of Mt. Eros—whilst artist Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton collects botanicals and objects to create inks for painting. Each finds a means to reconcile with loss and return to the earth and to themselves. The gallery exhibition features two meditations written for the project by Damon Falke—one of confession, one of returning to materiality—that knit the threads of hiking and gathering around Jean-Luc Marion’s notion that “Loving requires distance and the crossing of distance.” The film will be screened as a part of the exhibition.
The New Moon Art Gallery is hosting over one hundred of their finest student artists from eleven High School Art Program’s throughout Spokane County. The show, entitled “Hatchlings”, opens on First Friday, May 5th and runs through May 27th.
First Friday at The Gallery at Entropy (101 N Stevens), featuring Boise artist, Jon Morse. Artist reception First Friday May 5, from 5-8pm
Faculty Artists
Liz Bishop
Hannah Charlton
Roger DuBois
Janie Edwards
Andi Keating
Lorraine Manzo
Karen Mobley
Megan Perkins
Tom Quinn
Oriana Sage
Louise Telford
With their creations, our artists explore the many facets of “Tea”, from shared comfort drink, to medicinal infusion, to caffeine fix, to fabric dye. On First Friday, the Liberty Gallery will be transformed into a cozy tearoom with The Revival Tea Company hosting a tea tasting. Stop by the Historic Liberty Building this May to see the show!
From the beginning people have relied on myths and legends to give explanation of the world around them. From providing a framework for understanding natural phenomena, to giving voice to every step in the journey of life from birth, to death traditions, myths and legends give us context, keeping us steady as we take each step toward the future, the unknown. Today we also have our myths & legends, we call them psychology, or biology, or science. Names change, but the stories remain.
Saranac Art Projects is pleased to present Kurt Madison and Bradd Skubinna with Sara Osebold. A collaboration by Bradd Skubinna and Sara Osebold – Drawing and collage on canvas, paper and found surfaces. Sara Osebold is a Seattle artist and Bradd Skubinna is a Saranac Art Projects member.
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