For Kids
With SAGA support, SPPC will be able to purchase the equipment needed to carry out the in-house publishing of their annual work compendium, and pursue gatherings and classes as appropriate.
Visual
Grantee
Words
Words of all types: writing, spoken word, storytelling and more! All genres welcome. Seek out a book club or writing group, mark your calendar for visiting authors, or find ways to tell your story live onstage. If you are specifically interested in poetry, check out our Poet Laureate page, too!
Visual
Grantee
Hannah Charlton
SAGA is excited to support Hannah Charlton in her research, documentation and display for The Forgotten Book of Women. Her project will begin with seven 9” x 12” pieces in gouache and gold on vegan parchment.
New Media
Grantee
Black Lens News
Black Lens News will create a 24-page, full-color insert will be filled with the photographs of 20 African Americans, who are currently living in Spokane.
For Kids
Grantee
Spark Central
SAGA is providing support for Spark Central’s “West Central Publishing Union” (WCPU) in order to continue their mission of decreasing the artistic opportunity gap even as their mode of delivery changes.
Music
Grantee
KYRS Thin Air Community Radio
KYRS was granted general operational funding from SAGA to continue to promote and support the arts.
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Event: May 1
May Virtual First Friday
Join Spokane Arts for our second Virtual First Friday! Even as we Stay Home, Stay Healthy, our community has a wealth of artwork to share. We are hosting an online open gallery with recent work from local artists, hosting a virtual panel discussion, and sharing online events happening throughout the city by local artists and creatives.
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Event: April 3
Virtual First Friday
Join Spokane Arts and Downtown Spokane Partnership as we celebrate a Virtual First Friday! Even as we Stay Home, Stay Healthy, our community has a wealth of artwork to share. Share your #VirtualFirstFriday events with us by tagging Spokane Arts, post links to your events below, or emailing details to Artshelper@spokanearts.org! Artists, tag @SpokaneArts here and on Instagram to show us your new work! We’ll be sharing events, live streams, and artwork all day on Friday, April 3 for you to enjoy from your home.
Stage
Grantee
The Traveling Theater Company for Wayward Artists
Finding Your Light: An Evening of One Act Plays is a three-night theater event featuring 10-15 minute plays written by mentored teen playwrights.
Visual
Artist
Nanette (NIAH) Ferlito
Nanette is a nonbinary trans artist from Spokane. She makes weird stuff about normal stuff, but mostly comics and zines. If you’re interested in supporting them you can help by screaming into the void about her until the void screams back at us. Or just read her work.
Words
Artist
Donzell Milam
I am a pet/people sketch artist, product illustrator (shoes, plates etc.), fashion mechanical artist, architectural renderings, mural painter, watercolorist, storyboard artist, landscape and people illustrator.
Visual
Artist
Chris Chorvat
I am fascinated by critical theory, and its implications in the realms of both Contemporary Art, and Modernism. I am a video artist, illustrator, designer, painter, and sculptor, with a background in teaching art, glass blowing, and art materials research. I have a B.F.A. in studio art with an emphasis on sculpture from the College of Arts and letters at Eastern Washington University.