A love letter – or perhaps it’s a love comic strip – to Spokane from Stephan Pastis? The mind behind the amusing comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” crafted a clever nod to the Lilac City.
Jun. 7—MOSES LAKE — Here in the Basin, we know we have a lot of sunshine, and we generally like it that way. But sometimes it takes a relative newcomer to give us a fresh appreciation. "I've lived here three years now, and I love all the sunny days," said artist Fran Church, whose exhibit "Desert Sun" is currently showing in the Ramon Cerna Community Gallery at the Moses Lake Museum & Art ...
Some of Helmer Noel’s fondest memories since moving from Rhode Island to Spokane two years ago have been at Manito Park. “I would always take my dog there,” Noel said. “Manito Park was a favorite spot for Emma, who loved all of the open grass there.”
When Craig Goodwin became pastor at Millwood Presbyterian Church in the West Valley in 2004, the laidback University of Washington alum found his calling. However, Goodwin discovered that a man can have more than one reason for his existence.
PHILADELPHIA – AnnaLivia McCarthy slowly strolled a dimly lit gallery at the Barnes Foundation on a recent afternoon, casting her flashlight across the surfaces of masterpieces. As the museum’s senior conservation coordinator, McCarthy was not merely appreciating priceless art – she was hunting pesky prey. Sneaky intruders who hide in shadows and make meals out of masterpieces.
Next up with a New York TEDx Talk, Liberty Lake artist Sindhu Surapaneni juggles nonprofits, art, dance, school – all at age 14. Sindhu was scheduled to fly to New York this past Friday to deliver, “The Art of Rewriting Your Story: Sharpening Your Mindset" for the TEDx group. Through her art sold, she’s donated about $20,000 to charities benefiting homeless and low-income, plus teaches art to children and does Bollywood dancing around studies at Selkirk Middle School.
On a recent morning, artist Ric Gendron was perched, legs crossed, on the edge of his twin bed at the North Central Care Center in Spokane. Dressed in a green T-shirt and moccasins, his flowing gray hair curling below his shoulders, the ferocious Native American painter with the rock ’n’ roll attitude still had his trademark swagger.
The wait will come to an end Saturday, as Spokane Arts and Riverfront Park open "Stepwell" to the public at a gathering beginning at 11 a.m. The public art piece, selected from four original sketches the artist submitted in late 2017, was designed and built using roughly a half million dollars of the original $64 million in taxpayer bonds approved for the park's redevelopment. City law requires publicly funded construction projects to set aside 1% of the total cost for public art.
Apr. 26—WENATCHEE — Tattoo artist and immigrant, Dario Rodriguez, said he knows what it's like to struggle to find a space where he belongs. That's why the 27-year-old said he volunteered to spray paint a graffiti mural inside the Lighthouse Christian Ministries facility for a potential new teen center. "It makes me feel good and proud that I can give something back to Wenatchee," Rodriguez ...
Photographer Frank Sakae Matsura spent less than a decade in northern Washington state in the early 20th century but left an unforgettable visual legacy of the Okanogan River Valley.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will lead a sold-out workshop Friday at Central Library and discuss poetry Saturday at the Bing Crosby Theater with local poets Laura Read and Gabrielle Bates for EWU's 25th annual Get Lit! Festival.
This weekend's concerts by the Spokane Symphony, however, did not follow the customary template. They began with one of the most challenging – technically, intellectually and spiritually – concertos ever written, and followed that with a work requiring huge resources that comprises the final profound utterance of one of history's greatest musical geniuses.
The installation looming at the entrance to Humaira Abid’s solo exhibition at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture appears to be a treacherous, life-sized barbed wire fence. What makes the skin-ripping obstacle impossibly beautiful is the realization that the Seattle-based artist hand-carved each individual barb from wood.
