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Woodcarvers to show off work at ‘Artistry in Wood Show’

Woodcarver Joan Thiele grew up on a family farm in northwest Texas surrounded by animals. It was natural for her to use them as subjects when she began whittling with her pocketknife as a young girl. The Spokane Valley carver has come a long way since Texas. This weekend she takes center stage at the 15th annual juried "Artistry in Wood Show" in the Lair Building on the Spokane Community College campus at Greene and Mission.
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Art community offers host of creative options

In addition to the Fall Visual Arts Tour, this week is brimming with opportunities to see a variety of creative styles, hear a Los Angeles art critic and visit a number of artists' studios. 'Scarcity and Abundance' at EWU
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Kettle Falls artist captures Old West

Two intrepid hunters make their way across the blustery high country in John Peterson's oil painting, "Windswept Passage." "I like depicting a historical scene," said Peterson of Kettle Falls, Wash., "but not portraying a specific time or place so that the viewer can finish the story." The western and wildlife painter's Old West image won him the honor of being the featured artist at the three-day Ride the West All Breed Horse and Trade Expo opening Friday at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center.

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At WSU, the art world is standing tall

For those of you heading down to Pullman on Saturday for the first Cougar home football game of the season, consider getting there before 10 a.m. In addition to having plenty of time to set up your tailgate party before the matchup against Idaho, you'll be able to take advantage of the free guided walking tours of the "Sculpture From the Walla Walla Foundry" outdoor exhibition.
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Three artists featured at Grant

Subtle watercolors, mixed media sculpture and realistic landscapes are all part of the show opening Saturday at the William Grant Gallery. On view through Oct. 12 at the North Spokane gallery are the works of Carolyn Haugen, Aileen Staley and Melissa Swann Wagner.
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Artists create moving pieces at Jundt

For two weeks in late August, five area artists spent long summer days making their marks. The results can now be seen in "Drawn to the Wall II" in the Jundt Art Museum on the Gonzaga University campus. Museum director J. Scott Patnode asked five well-known Inland Northwest artists to spend two weeks at the museum, each creating a drawing on one side of a 12- by 8-foot movable museum wall.
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Multicultural canvas

If you want to see stereotypical western and Native American art, then "Rick Bartow: My Eye" is not for you. Yes, Bartow has Native American heritage. In 1911 his Wiyot grandfather, of the Mad River Band, walked 300 miles from northwestern California to the central Oregon coast and settled on land where Bartow and his family still live.
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Area filled with exhibits of nice work

For those taking in Pig Out in the Park on Friday night, there's a long list of places to see art before – or after – that chocolate-covered cheesecake. For those heading out of town for the Labor Day weekend, there are venues showing art in Priest Lake, Idaho; Metaline Falls, Wash.; and on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash.
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Kerrs navigate the smallest of spaces

Graham and Treena Kerr know what it's like to cook in a small space. "I spent 30 years as a sailor," said the former Galloping Gourmet and best-selling cookbook author. For two years in the early '70s, the Kerrs and their three children lived aboard their 71-foot ocean-going ketch. They navigated more than 24,000 miles, exploring the waters of the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Eastern Seaboard of the United States. After moving to the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s, they did another 6,000 miles in a 36-foot sailboat.
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Tight quarters

Whatever your plans for the long Labor Day weekend—be it at your lake cabin, aboard your sailboat, in your recreational vehicle or curled up with a book in your studio apartment—sometime or other you gotta eat. And just because your kitchen space is small doesn't mean your meals have to be limited to sandwiches and warmed up baked beans.
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Native American artists’ work on display at Idaho’s Prichard Gallery

Kicking off the fall season in the University of Idaho's Prichard Art Gallery is an incredible exhibition featuring four of the Northwest's leading contemporary Native American artists. "Recent Work" presents pieces by Oregon artists James Lavadour of Pendleton, Rick Bartow of Newport and Marie Watt of Portland, along with Washington artist Joe Feddersen of Olympia.
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Hara abstracts explore loss

Keiko Hara explores universal feelings common to the human condition in her exhibition that opens Friday at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. Hara uses the "language of art to describe feelings that accompany radical life transitions caused by separation, loss and psychological isolation," said Portland art writer Lois Allen in an essay for the exhibition.
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Helena event to showcase works of clay

Once again the Art Spirit Gallery has reeled in 15 top contemporary ceramists for its "Clay Invitational" show opening Friday. This year they are all past residents of the renowned Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena. Gallery owner Steve Gibbs has assembled a diversity of creative styles and firing techniques including the wood-fired, shino-glazed stoneware of Bozeman artist Rick Pope. Another Montana artist in the show is Charles Jonas of Moiese. He's exhibiting a uniquely shaped stoneware fountain.
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Manito magic at First Friday

It seems as if new art shows never stop coming this time of year. Maybe it's because art goes well with just about everything—be it listening to music, dining out or shooting pool. Once again First Friday in Spokane signals the opening of a large number of new exhibits including the "Magic of Manito Park" show at the Chase Gallery in Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.
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Going van Gogh

Tucked away in the wooded countryside of the southeast section of the Netherlands is the Kröller-Muller Museum. It's not as big and famous as the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam, and it's certainly not as easy to find.
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Artists bring ‘Farm Chic’ to Priest Lake

Artists Harold Balazs and Ken Spiering have known each other for almost 40 years. They first met in the late 1960s when Balazs taught a workshop at Gonzaga University, where Spiering was a student. Since then the prolific artists have collaborated on a couple of public art pieces but rarely have shown their studio artwork together.
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Sandpoint showcases local artwork

The second summer Sandpoint ArtWalk kicks off Friday with 21 gallery spaces showcasing more than three dozen leading Inland Northwest artists and crafters. One of those artists is Ann Porter of Sandpoint. Known for her sculpture and installations, Porter is highlighting stained glass work in her show at the Chris Kraisler Gallery. "Twins" is a show about "symbols that remind us of our attachments and the things we consider sacred," says gallery owner Kraisler.
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Visual art

Images of opulent globes coated in heavy, viscous fluids appear to stick to the walls of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture's Orientation Gallery. On closer examination, Wendy Franklund Miller's "Seduction" series of encaustic and mixed media paintings presents not only images of beautiful, rounded forms covered in sweet, syrupy substances, but many also depict dangerous objects such as nails, pins and rocks.
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Blaschke features NW landscapes

PAINTING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST'S beautiful landscape is Ellen Blaschke's passion — and the heart of her work is hanging at the Crawford Gallery in Deer Park Blaschke frequently captures majestic images of Mount Spokane and Mount Rainier in her oil paintings, says gallery manager Brenda Lippert.
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Area teachers, students star in EWU show

Eastern Washington University's summer show, "Education on Location," opens Monday in the Gallery of Art. "This is the first time we've exhibited artwork by area high school art teachers and students," said Nancy Hathaway, gallery director. "It gives EWU students and community members the opportunity to experience the high quality of artwork being produced." The show includes expressive watercolors by Ferris High School art teacher Sherri Thies and acrylic paintings by student Jenny Skelton.
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Making your MARK

UNLESS YOU'VE BECOME STUCK in traffic under the Browne Street railroad viaduct in the last couple of weeks, chances are you haven't noticed the vibrant and lively murals that decorate this previously bleak public space. The Browne Street murals are the most recent addition to a larger program that got its start in 1991 when the downtown business community saw a need to bring color and light to dark pedestrian walkways in the viaduct tunnels.
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The season of artwalks

Artwalks have been summertime fixtures in the Inland Northwest for decades. This summer is no exception. Three Idaho cities—Moscow, Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene—are hosting self-guided artwalks beginning Friday.
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‘Toaster Oven’ cuisine never tasted so good

When I picked up Linda Stephens' "125 Best Toaster Oven Recipes" cookbook, I was immediately transported back 25 years to when I lived in an efficiency apartment in San Diego. In those days my dinners consisted mainly of fresh mixed green salads and catch-of-the-day or chicken that I cooked in my counter-top toaster oven.