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Sandpoint becomes artists’ open gallery

Looking for places to view art in Sandpoint during the holiday season? The Pend Oreille Arts Council coordinates free exhibitions in several public spaces in the Sandpoint/Sagle area. All displays feature regional artists and run through Jan. 9.
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Sticky buns recipe a holiday favorite

During the holiday season many cooks fall back on traditional family favorites. Like hearing "Jingle Bells," seeing "It's a Wonderful Life," or drinking egg nog, many of us find comfort and joy in preparing at least a few traditional recipes during the holidays.
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Fife soars with ‘Big Trouble’

Seattle artist Scott Fife loves rolling up his sleeves and creating classically styled figurative sculpture made from hunks of heavy cardboard, a bucket of glue and power tools. He's been doing it for almost 30 years – and he's good at it.
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Don’t overlook new exhibitions

Sandwiched between the holiday craft shows and artists' open studios are scores of new exhibits across the Inland Northwest. In addition to Spokane's monthly downtown First Friday gallery shows, Coeur d'Alene has moved its usual Second Friday Artwalk up a week because of the holiday season.
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Holiday craft shows help ring in season

A dozen festive holiday fine craft shows and artists' open studios help ratchet up the Christmas spirit this weekend and next. New on the schedule this season is the "South Perry Neighborhood Arts Show" on Saturday at Liberty Park Florist.
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Wheaton pours heart, energy into landscapes

The sweeping wheat fields and stark desert land of the Columbia Plateau are the subjects for Kim Matthews Wheaton's lush oil paintings on view at the Chase Gallery. Wheaton's large, dramatic paintings of Eastern Washington's agricultural landscape carry a strong sense of place and mood.
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Functional flavor

The television advertisement for this weekend's Inland Crafts show has an appealing and appropriate tag line: Art for Living. "Art for living" is exactly what can be found year after year at the region's premier contemporary craft event.
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DVD assists would-be RV owners

Many people, especially baby boomers approaching retirement, daydream about owning an RV and hitting the road. "RVing is a very appealing idea to a lot of people," said Chuck Woodbury, editor of RVTravel.com. "They see these little rolling houses that are so comfortable and fantasize about selling the house and living in one."
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Artist takes some poetic license with paintings, drawings

"Fractured Silence," Kay O'Rourke's latest series of narrative paintings and drawings, opens Friday in the Lorinda Knight Gallery as part of the First Friday Art Walk in downtown Spokane. O'Rourke's colorful, expressive images capture the energy of poems written by a few of her favorite contemporary poets including Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Anita Endrezze and the late Octavio Paz.
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Color plays a Key role in quilts

Chloe Ann Key's playful quilts are "Dancing with Color" in the Gold Mountains Gallery in Republic, Wash. "Color is the most important aspect to my work," says Key in a news release. "I'll use bought fabric, as well as fabric that I dye myself. My search is to find how best to show the colors."
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Balazs’ thoughts become reality

Harold Balazs has been musing again. While most folks' musings vanish without a trace, Balazs' fanciful ideas frequently become enamel plaques, fabricated assemblages and free-standing abstract sculptures. The latest collection of his manifested thoughts can be found in "Harold Balazs – The Mead Codex and Stories," opening Friday at the Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d'Alene.
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CARVING HER NICHE

Wildlife woodcarver Desiree Hajny grew up in the Rocky Mountains during the '60s. "My parents wore waffle-stompers," says Hajny (pronounced HAY-nee). Born in Iowa in 1957, the family moved to Colorado when she was 3 years old.
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Quilt Show offers blocks of history

Quilting is more than just fabric and thread – it's memories, it's time shared with other quilters and it's a fine craft. For 27 years, thousands of quilters have made a pilgrimage to the annual Washington State Quilters' Quilt Show in Spokane. This year's three-day event, "The Magic of Quilting," begins Friday at the Spokane Convention Center.
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Historic imprint

Walking through the doors of the Jundt Art Museum is like walking into five centuries of printmaking history. On view are two exhibitions of prints donated to Gonzaga University's permanent collection by Dr. Norman and Esther Bolker.
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Sculpture takes stage at SFCC

An intimate collection of exceptional bronze sculpture is on view in the small Spokane Falls Community College Gallery of Art through Oct. 20. The works, conceived by five of America's leading contemporary artists, became reality at the Walla Walla Foundry, nestled at the base of the Blue Mountains in southeastern Washington.
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Fascination with trailers started early for artist

Charlie Schmidt is obsessed with trailers. "I remember when I was a kid living out in Spokane Valley," says Schmidt. "I would bicycle over to the used trailer lots on Sprague Avenue and sneak into the long skinny trailers parked way in the back."
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An exhibit well worth the wait

"Young at Art" is Sally Pierone's first art exhibit in more than 50 years. "My last show was when I returned from Europe after living and painting there for three years," says Pierone, 84. "That was in 1953." Her current exhibit is up in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane through September. While it's been a long time between solo shows, Pierone hasn't been idle. She worked as a commercial artist, married and raised three sons, and became a spiritual counselor and gentle force in the New Thought movement.
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‘Faculty Show’ offers Whitworth’s finest

Whitworth College's "Fine Arts Faculty Show" opens the academic exhibition season on Monday in the college's new art gallery. "We have twice as much exhibition space," says Gordon Wilson, chair of the college's art department. "We're still in the Fine Arts Building but in a new location with lots of track lighting and multimedia capabilities." The 2005 biennial faculty show includes more then 30 pieces ranging from impressionistic paintings to coiled ceramic sculpture.
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Save room for Friday’s Art Walk

One good way to burn up a few of those extra calories packed on at Pig Out in the Park is to stroll through downtown Spokane taking in the First Friday Art Walk. The self-paced downtown art walk includes many new shows and dozens of open artists' receptions including "Taking the Plunge" at the Kolva Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St.