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. 

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Event: Opens March 5
Opening Reception – Posie Kalin & Emily Hawkins

Stop by Saranac Art Projects for the opening reception on March 5 with new work by Posie Kalin & Emily Hawkins! Posie Kalin – Mirror Mind: A space where images and materials converge and dissipate, revealing a kind of physical fragility that engages viewers with a sense of emotional transformation through video, sculpture, and archival prints. Emily Hawkins – Kitchen Things: Arising in response to the increased domestic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kitchen Things explores the complicated set of roles the artist plays in managing and balancing the life of her household during quarantine, including mother, cook, and teacher, among other roles. An honest look at the rigors and joys of domestic and emotional labor, the series questions both the ability and the responsibility to “do it all” and embraces the importance of finding clarity and space.
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Artist
Chelsea McIntire

I am a art who loves to paint! My go to medium is acrylic paint and I love abstract art. I am also open to trying new techniques and styles when it comes to my artwork, I just like to mix it up sometimes! All my artwork can be found on my Facebook page CM Art Life or my Instagram page @cm_art_life .
I am passionate about my art and love to express my feelings, thoughts, and emotions through what I make. Painting is my of pouring out all the stresses of the day and turning them into something unique.
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Event: Opens March 4
Owen McAuley – Outside In

Visit Spokane Arts School Thursdays and Fridays in March to see a new show of work by landscape oil painter Owen McAuley! Artist Statement: My work is composed of places and things that, at a particular moment, strike me as evocative of particular emotions or ideas in my own psyche and perhaps that of others. I seek to identify and commemorate the elements that spur such feeling, and in doing so, to examine my own experience and that of humanity in general. I see analogous relationships between visual characteristics of certain places and the situations that compose human existence. I attempt to convey a sense of the vague longing for something just beyond the grasp of our consciousness that I believe influences all endeavors of humanity in ways unexamined or unacknowledged. I also enjoy using the occasional oblique reference to ideas from art history and world events, as well as to personal history, literature, movies, and music; these are usually oblique because they take shape in the process through means that are as dimly understood to myself as they may be to the viewer.
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Artist
Mel Hewitt

Mel Hewitt is a book artist working her way towards becoming proficient in all aspects of the book arts. Her skills currently lie in traditional and contemporary binding structures and finishing techniques, paper marbling, paste papers, and incorporating letter press, screen printing, and relief printing into her pieces. Mel’s work ranges from utilitarian one-of-a-kind journals to sculptural artist books. She enjoys teaching her craft to others and offers classes both privately and through the Spokane Print and Publishing Center.
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Robyn Smith

Robyn is a Mixed Media Artist and Instructor who has a passion for guiding others to explore art in a way they might not have thought of before. Her work often includes repurposed items (old records, maps, old sheet music, patterns, tissue paper, found objects) and texture. In addition to teaching weekly classes in Art Journaling/Mixed Media, Robyn also teaches Paint Parties and offers Kids Art Kits To-Go. All classes are currently virtual via Zoom or FB Live. In-person classes will resume as circumstances allow.
Music
Artist
GrandMixer GMS

I am a DJ, turntablist, remixer, music producer, and visual artist. I first touched the turntables as a breakdancer at 11 years old, and in 1986 became the 1st DJ to mix for commercial radio in Spokane, Washington – at just 14 years old. As a turntablist, I won the 1993 Inland Northwest Battle of the DJ’s and began mixing with Tobin Costen on Spokane’s then only all rap show that same year. The follo­wing year I began mixing for music legend Nasty-Nes on Seattle’s KCMU Rap Attack until retiring from music in the mid-90’s. However, I picked up the needles in 2020 to reunite with Nasty-Nes for KFOX Nightbeat where I can be heard mixing every Sunday night from 9-11pm on RainierAvenueRadio.world. In 2020, I became the 1st Spokane DJ to mix on “Sway In The Morning” – the world’s #1 Hip-Hop radio show. My mixes consistently rank in the top 10 on Mixcloud’s Global charts – even hitting #1 on multiple charts – and after working with former Eazy E artist, Tairrie B, on her recent album, “Feminenergy,” I became her DJ/Remixer.
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Event: February 5
Between the Covers

Saranac Art Projects is pleased to present Between the Covers, a group exhibition of book arts. This exhibit features a multi-disciplinary collection of works including printmaking, photography, ceramics and more. Participating artists have engaged in an exciting range of thematic and formal interpretations. The book arts are extremely broad in scope. A variety of media can be used as communication tools often seeking to challenge traditional definitions of “book.”