Fri., Sept. 12, 2014

Throw your voice into local dialoug

A projection on the Columbia Bank Building asks for submissions to Spokane Throw, an art project that will project letters from Spokane residents onto the blank sides of buildings. (Jesse Tinsley)

A new community arts project wants to put your words up in lights.

Spokane Throw invites residents to write a letter to their city. In 25 words or less, how would you finish a letter beginning, “Dear Spokane”?

Submissions will be accepted until Sept. 26. Then 10 of Spokane’s leading visual artists and poets will review the submissions. Each artist will interpret their letters of choice as inspiration for creating a stencil filter for a large light projection in downtown Spokane during the month of October.

The first light, featuring a call out for the project, was recently installed. The results can be seen every evening after sunset on the Columbia Bank building on West Riverside Avenue.

Austin Stiegemeier, program manager at Spokane Arts, said the project “will be a pairing of images and words, but the focus is on the words.” Read more. Cindy Hval, SR

In 25 words or less how would you finish a letter beginning, "Dear CdA"?

Posted Sept. 12, 2014, 10:15 a.m.