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. 

Event: Opens December 3
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!

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.

Event: Opens November 5
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.

Event: Opens November 3
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. 

Event: Opens November 5
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!

Event: Opens November 5
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

Event: Opens November 5
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.

Event: Opens November 16
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.