For Seattle-based artist Kate Powell, still life paintings don’t need to be confined to flower vases and fruit bowls – they can also include self portraits and pieces of trash found outside while walking the dog.
According to Tim Butler, marketing and communications director for the Museum of Glass, the Pacific Northwest has three major cultural exports: coffee, tech and glass.
When talking to Rylan Wood with EquipmentShare about why she wanted to rent an asphalt roller, Jeni Riplinger, executive director of Emerge, had to explain herself twice.
Did you eat yesterday? Hopefully, the answer is yes. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that in 2011, the average American consumed nearly 1 ton of food throughout the year, or approximately 2,700 calories per day. According to Science Direct, family farms produce 80% of the world’s food.
On the walls of Spokane City Hall’s Chase Gallery, neon acrylic shades peek through oil-painted scenes of nature, and, more specifically, depict what happens when disaster strikes.
In a way, the team at Urban Art Co-op are a little like elves at the North Pole. They work yearround for a single event, Scoops and Bowls, that brings cheer, or handmade bowls and ice cream, to attendees at Manito Park.
Growing up, Margaret Kidwell spent her time immersed in a universe bursting at the seams with fabrics, bobbins and fictional superheroes. Now working by day as a Republic, Washington, campus supervisor for Spokane Community College, the innovative designer has discovered her true calling crafting out-of-this-world looks after-hours as a fandom fashionista.
Angel Luna will showcase a series of clay figures this Friday that reflect life in the fields and his upbringing in a farmworker family – a tribute to the stories often left untold.
Riverfront Park has welcomed a new addition this summer: a sculptural mosaic bench in the Sister Cities Connections Garden, following its June 21 unveiling at the Taste of Asia Festival and Philippine American Friendship Celebration.
Ken Spiering and his welding students put the finishing touches on their steel creation “Mountain Sheep” during the early morning hours of May 4, 1974, the first day of Expo ’74. Walking upstream against the traffic of eager visitors to put their equipment away, they had no idea what a landmark their life-sized sheep would become.
To many, buttons are just what keeps a shirt from falling off. But to the Idaho State Button Society, they are pieces of history, art and culture that anyone can enjoy.
When the decadeslong dream of opening an art gallery became a reality for Spokane artist Michael Dinning last month, one thing he didn’t want to do was hang his own work in it.
