Visual

Learn the basics of paper clay art! In this online presentation you will transfer a simple image to carve and paint. The result is a bas-relief, lightweight dimensional clay applique. We will observe Palm Sunday by using the likeness of a palm leaf.After you register you will gain access to a step-by-step tutorial slideshow. You can start playing around with materials before class, but Paula will also demonstrate during the workshop and answer questions.PLEASE NOTE: You are welcome to watch the demonstration and craft along with Paula or simply watch and learn. If you plan to create during the workshop you will need to gather supplies ahead of time.

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.

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.

Native Art Exhibit through-the-glass at Yes is a Feeling! Stop by 159 S Lincoln to enjoy this exhibit of new work you can view through the gallery windows. Bundle up and come by anytime the weekend of February 26-28 to see all the work from the sidewalk.