For Kids
Artisan Barn is offering a one-day workshop on sketching and painting local landscapes in watercolor instructed by Wes Hansen on May 1 for $72.
Visual
Event: May 1
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.
Words
Event: Opens April 12
Get Lit! Festival
While Get Lit! is not celebrating in person in 2021 due to COVID-19, an exciting virtual festival is planned for April 12 – 18! Featuring readings, lectures, workshops, craft classes, contests, book signings, radio/music/film/theater events, and more!
Visual
Event: April 17
A Photo Walk on Garland with Roger DuBois
Join the Spokane Art School photography instructor Roger DuBois on a photo learning walk around the Garland District for $40.
SA Official
News
Spokane Arts grants Operational Support Grants to local cultural organizations
Spokane Arts was able to fund five cultural organizations with a dispensation from the City of Spokane earmarked for the support of cultural groups. This set of grants was awarded by a separate selection panel, composed of Spokane Arts Commissioners, who made their choices independently from the SAGA process. These five organizations have received grants to support their general operations and events in 2021-22.
For Kids
Grantee
Mary Carpenter and Mary Pat Kanaley
Ponies in the Park is a fully illustrated, four-color, hardback picture book, which incorporates Spokane’s Riverfront Park into local art and history education.
Cultural
Grantee
Northwest Winterfest
Northwest Winterfests’ Celebration of the Holidays is a single event that spans eight weeks starting November 1, 2021 in Mirabeau Meadows Park.
For Kids
Grantee
Garfield APPLE
The purpose of this project is to inspire young children in our community to notice and appreciate the art that lives all around them.
Visual
Event: Opens March 17
“In the Air and Underground” by Mariah Boyle at EWU
Artist lecture for Mariah Boyle’s exhibit In the Air and Underground is April 7 at 12 p.m. Boyle’s virtual exhibit runs from March 17 – April 23 at the EWU Gallery of Art.
Visual
Event: Opens March 5
Posie Kaylin & Emily Hawkins at SAP
Two new exhibitions at Saranac Art Projects: “Mirror Mind” by Posie Kalin and “Kitchen Things” by Emily Hawkins. These exhibitions run from March 5 through March 31.
Visual
Event: Opens March 4
“Outside In” by Owen McAuley at SAS
Owen McAuley’s new exhibition “Outside In” is on view at Spokane Art School Thursdays and Fridays March 4 – 26. His work is composed of places and things that, at a particular moment, strike him as evocative of particular emotions or ideas.
Visual
Event: Opens April 1
April Guest Artist at Pottery Place Plus
Sandy Aronson is the new Guest Artist at Pottery Place Plus, April 1 – April 30. Inspired by images from the Hubble, and a fascination with color, Sandy Aronson brings a wonderful sense of light and color to her paintings.