Melissa Cole will be the featured artist for October. It’s been 18 months since we’ve featured her and it’s exciting to have her back. She’s one of the most popular and beloved artists on our region.
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.
WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR
Real and imagined spaces; environments constructed to evoke a sense of calm; finding joy in the moments, big or small, tangible or surreal; Where the Air is Clear is a body of sculptural works that celebrate reconnecting, centering, and finding one’s breathe.
Wood, Watercolor, & Words
Kolva-Sullivan Gallery is honored to present Hank Chiappetta first solo show in Spokane. Hank’s passion is cutting into wood and allowing forms to appear—the musings of both conscious and unconscious mind.
EXIT-X-IT: Mixed media installation by Tom O’Day
This exhibition by recently retired art faculty member Tom O’Day will open to the public as a work in progress from the opening to the closing.
Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour Show
The 13th Annual Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour will move online this year because of Covid-19, with the virtual show opening on Saturday, September 26, at 8:00 a.m. Over three dozen, well-known, regional artists are participating.
October Guest Artist: Mike DeCesare
Photography is Mike DeCesare’s first language, expressed in images that draw the viewer inside a scene to see, feel, interact with, and add their personal interpretation of a place or a time when light, color and form combined to create a unique and memorable human experience.
Recent Grads
See artwork by recent Whitworth graduates, Marissa Gibson, Daniel Miller, Rachel Prior, Katelyn Rinehart and Rebecca Young. The Bryan Oliver Gallery is currently open by appointment only.
2020 Arts Awards
Spokane Arts announces 2020 Arts Award winners & kicks off Arts Month! Winners of the 2020 Spokane Arts Awards were announced at the annual event on Saturday, September 26, which was held as a live-streamed broadcast from Lucky You Lounge. The Arts Awards serve as the kick-off for Arts Month, the month-long celebration of arts and culture in Spokane to coincide with national arts and humanities month in October.
Dylan Le
Dylan specializes in automotive, journalistic, and documentary style photography.
Kyle Allon Bond
Kyle explores the relationship between personal calamity and existentialism, producing each new work with a fragile balance of calculated intention and arbitrary whim.
Jessiray Wheeler
essiray Wheeler is a painter and a poet living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. She has been published in the Yehaw Indigenous Art Zine and has shown in both the We Are Still Here Art Show and the Gathering At the Falls Art Show. Her work has been chosen to represent NICWAs 39th Annual Protecting Our Children Conference (2021).