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First Friday is designed to showcase the downtown art and retail scene.
Visual
Event: Opens April 7
Events
Visual
Event: Opens April 8
TRANSMUTATION | All Print Show | Terrain Gallery
Join us for our April Gallery Show, featuring a selection of printmaking work from national graphic and book artists responding to the concept of “Transmutation.” Curated by Carl Richardson and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, this show is part of Spokane Print Fest which seeks to educate and inspire the local community on the traditional and contemporary practices of printmaking through curated gallery shows, artist demos and print workshops.
Visual
Event: April 15
Art Class for Children with Special Needs
Join us for a morning of arts and crafts on Saturday, April 15 at 10 AM. Blessed and Beautiful Creative Co is partnering with a local special needs education elementary teacher to host a fun, creative, and accommodating space for children with special needs to do a fun art project.
Words
Event: Opens April 20
Get Lit! Festival 2023
Join us in celebrating 25 years of the Get Lit! Festival with four full days of readings, writing workshops, craft classes, open mics, panel discussions, literary happy hours, and more— offered for free or at low-cost. Each year brings a diverse lineup of highly sought-after authors to our region, while also highlighting our local literary talent. This year, current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón will be one of our headlining authors.
Arts Business
Event: April 20
The Art of the Artist Statement Workshop
Artist statements are hard to write, but they’re an important tool for artists working in any discipline. In this hour-long workshop, artist and poet Kamari Bright will help you learn the basics of writing a strong artist statement and give you the tools to begin writing your own! By the end of the workshop, you’ll have better understanding of how to write about your work and walk away with a working draft of a statement to use for your next application or your website/portfolio.
Visual
Event: April 22
Erin Lang Pop-Up Gallery
This gallery, titled “ATAVISM”, showcases the work of Spokane artist, Erin Lang—a multimedia visual artist working primarily in acrylic paint and relief carving. Lang’s work explores consumption, connection, energy, and language. It interrogates the borders between human and animal, flora and fauna. Lang is inspired by and in conversation with artists like Frida Kahlo, Katherine Bradford, and Keya Tama.
Culinary
Event: May 7
Asian American Pacific Heritage Day Celebration
We invite everyone to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Day! Join us in this free event, captivating cultural presentations from Spokane Chinese dancers, Filipino American Dance group, Japanese Bon Odori dancers, Marshallese Group and Spokane Mele Ohana, food vendors, and Asian food potluck.
Visual
Event: May 11
Stage Lights for Our Place
Stage Lights for Our Place is our annual fundraiser, raising critical funds to serve the poorest zip code in not only Washington, but Oregon and Idaho as well. The proceeds raised through this auction will go towards the needs of our clients as they come up, so that we may ensure that no one goes without the essentials
SA Official
Event: September 23
Spokane Arts Awards 2023
Spokane Arts is excited to host the annual Arts Awards—a celebration of the arts community in Spokane! Join us on Saturday, September 23, at Lucky You Lounge for live music, performances, poetry, plus the presentation of the Arts Awards!