WSU Instructor Guest Conducts German Orchestra At Potsdam Festival
L. Keating Johnson, a music and theater arts faculty member at Washington State University, was recently guest conductor for the Sachsen-Anhalt State Police Orchestra at Germany’s Music Festival of Potsdam.
The festival was in honor of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV’s 200th birthday.
Johnson led the 55-piece orchestra through works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, von Weber, Wagner and Wilhelm Wieprecht.
Johnson is recognized internationally as an expert on the life and works of Wieprecht, who designed and patented the bass tuba, euphonium and Wagner tuba.
Weekend workshops
There are three more sessions left during Spokane Art School’s summer half-day, Friday Workshops series.
Courses include “Ceramics: Hand-building and Wheel-Throwing,” “Drawing and Watercolor” and “Sculpting Clay with Found Objects.”
The final sessions will be July 21 and 28, Aug. 4 and 11 and Aug. 18 and 25. For more information or to register, call 328-0900. , Spokane Art School courses
The Spokane Art School has three, one-day workshops in color slide photography, paper making and photographing personal art work scheduled on Saturdays during July and August.
The Spokane Art School also has room in its three remaining summer session youth art classes. Sessions occur July 17-27, July 31-Aug. 10 and Aug. 14-24. Classes range from ceramics and sculpting to painting and metalworking.
For more details, call 328-0900.
Gems by Gardner
Gay Gardner, accomplished jewelry designer and faculty member at Spokane Art School and Spokane Falls Community College, has had two of her pieces selected into the Bellevue Art Museum’s Pacific Northwest Annual juried art show.
Some 1,023 Northwest artists entered the exhibition. Gardner was one of 120 chosen.
Her works will be on display from July 28 to Sept. 10.
Fresh ‘Fruit’ honored
Joanne Nixon, a noted Spokane artist, has had her watercolor, “Fruit for Sale,” selected by the juried 1995 Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors.
The painting will hang at the Arts Center in Old Forge, N.Y., July 14 through Sept. 17.