Pottery Place Plus is pleased to welcome Mary Pat Kanaley as our featured Guest Artist in December. Mary is a Spokane based artist who works in varied mediums from chalk pastel to acrylics and watercolors, often combining all three together.
Visual
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.
Cup of Joy
Trackside Studio’s 8th annual group invitational of drinking vessels. A celebration exhibit of over 150 ceramic cups; ceramic cups in many forms, colors and treatments serving as mini sculpture, many times a small lovely 3 D paintings and most often functional. Forty invited artists will participate including thirteen new artists. Each of the invited artists are sending up to four cup forms each to exhibit. The cups are being shipped from across the United States, including Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida. Don’t miss this holiday gift giving season at Trackside, support our locally owned businesses, support the arts, buy and gift hand made!
Neil Martin [Paintings 2016 – 2021]
Nine mixed media paintings by Neil Martin from 2016 – 2021 will be featured illuminated by a stroboscopic L.E.D. and black light installation at Object Space Gallery in Spokane on December 3.
Jiemei Lin at Bryan Oliver Gallery
The Whitworth University Art Department and the university’s Bryan Oliver Gallery present the work of Jiemei Lin!
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.
Opening Reception – Saranac Art Projects Present Works By Kurt Madison, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, & Ann Porter
Kurt Madison & Reinaldo Gil Zambrano – Remember Last Summer, a collaborative mixed media installation and Ann Porter – 1,000 Words at Saranac Art Projects this month!
TI-KI-DA, A TRIPLE ART SHOW
TI-KI-DA, A TRIPLE ART SHOW at NEW MOON ART GALLERYWednesday-Saturday 12-6 p.m. through Nov. 27th 3 well known artists, from whimsical to edgy will adorn our walls.TIM LORD Known by many for his micro-detailed work to his extravagant imagination! KIM LONG Has created all new works, emphasizing her passion for nature and the human connection. DARA DeBAST A brilliant artist always edgy plus we will feature sculptures created with bits of yesterday.
Photo Collage by Gay Waldman
see this visual feast at the Iron Goat Brewery November 3rd thru December 1st. Meet Gay November 5th during First Friday Art Tour 5-7 pm. Gay Waldman’s art work is particularly intriguing with the way images overlap, hide behind one another then peak out and encourage the viewer to look carefully and think. Her artwork relies on a multitude of photographs layered with rich colors and translucent texture. Her imagery includes flora, landscape, seasons, and geometric shapes.
New Faculty Show at GUUAC!
The New Faculty Show will feature artwork of new professors and staff joining the Art Departments from Whitworth University, Gonzaga University, and Spokane Falls Community College. The exhibition will display a variety of media from sculpture, installation, painting, and works on paper. Featuring the work of Christopher Wagner, Posie Kalin, Lena Lopez Schindler, Ashley Vaughn, Cozette Phillips, Benjamin Necochea, and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano. We welcome these new faculty members into their new roles in Spokane!
Eye of the Beholder
Come to the Thamm’s home to enjoy the work of Audreana Camm whose thought provoking surrealist paintings are a delight to the eye and senses. Audreana is the amazing instructor at Pinot’s Palette. Also showing Shotgun artists-John Thamm, Jesse Swanson, Roch Fautch, Rick Davis, Matt Wolf, Darrell Wilcox and Hank Chiapetta. All the work represented in “Eye of the Beholder”, speaks to the synergy between the artist and the viewer that art doesn’t exist on its own but is created by the observer. Friday November 5, 5-9pm and Saturday November 6, 1-4 pm. Every Friday evening during November, 5-9 pm or by appointment
Coasters Benefit, Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery
November at Trackside Studio brings back our annual COASTERS BENEFIT. Artists and friends of Trackside picked up blank coasters, created and donated them to this benefit. Locally owned Art Salvage helped with this effort by providing business hours to pick up blank coasters and drop off finished coasters. All coasters will sell for $10. each with funds benefiting our 2021 nonprofit, RIVER’S WISH ANIMAL SANCTUARY. Doors will open for sales on First Friday, November 5 at 5 pm. Gallery sales will continue on Saturday the 6th from noon – 4 pm and during weekly business hours through the month of November. Artist participants include among many, Joe Tomlinson, Sheila Evans, Patti Osebold, Chris Kelsey, Gina Freuen, Lexi Biggs, Dean Lenz, Megan Martens-Haworth, Maddy Doolen and many more. Trackside Studio requires patrons to be masked and has patron capacity restrictions.
On The Edge: Living The Anthropocene (Lecture and Reception)
Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is pleased to present the exhibition On The Edge: Living The Anthropocene, November 16th, 2021 through January 13th, 2022. The artists will give a lecture on November 16th at noon in the EWU Gallery of Art with a reception to follow. The artwork of Northwest artists Ann Chadwick Reid and Natalie Niblack recognizes the impact of climate change on marine and forest environments of the Pacific Northwest. Using traditional media of cut paper, painting, prints and drawings, both artists create work that celebrates the social and environmental complexity of this Northwest landscape while questioning it’s survivability as climate change inevitably and perhaps irrevocably alters the world around us.