Two Named To Chair Committees For Symphony’s Fund Campaign

Walker Collins and Donald Hart have been named chairmen of two leadership committees for the Spokane Symphony’s endowment fund campaign, which hopes to raise between $3.5 million and $4.5 million.

Both Collins and Hart are current trustees and past presidents of the symphony’s board of trustees.

Collins, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Washington Trust Bank, will help develop proposals for solicitations of $100,000 or more.

Hart has been named chairman of the campaign’s Advanced and Major Gifts Division, which will solicit gifts of $25,000 to $50,000-plus.

The campaign, announced in April, is headed by co-chairwomen Betsy Cowles and Harriet Fix.

A summer of art

Class schedules are available for summer quarter at Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh, beginning June 16.

A variety of programs and workshops will be offered, including drawing for teens and adults, watercolor painting for teens, and a class on mystery writing, basic writing and editing techniques.

There will be day and evening classes, as well as one- and two-day workshops, for adults, teens and children.

For more information, call 625-6677.

Auditions

Washington State University’s School of Music and Theatre Arts Summer Palace will hold open auditions for “The Pirates of Penzance,” at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. today, in Daggy Hall’s Jones Theatre, and again at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Singers and choral performers are needed for the performance, scheduled for July 24-26 and July 30-Aug. 2.

Call (509) 335-7447 for more information.

Photo exhibit

Several Inland Northwest photographers are featured in the exhibit “In Focus” at the Lewis-Clark Center for Arts and History in Lewiston.

Area photographers include Craig Folkes, Nine Mile Falls; Gay Waldman, Spokane; Bill Watts, Pullman; Gary Bush, Barry Kough, Jeri Rainer, Mike Ridinger, Liz Roberts and Mike Venso, all of Lewiston; Doug Davidson, Tom and Cleo Fleming, Steve Hanks, and Mark and Suzanne Planck, all of Moscow, Idaho; and Alison Meyer, Worley, Idaho.

Several photographs by the late Stephen Lyman of Sandpoint will be displayed and available for purchase.

The exhibit opens June 19.

Up, up and away

Ron Tan, Spokane architect and designer, will be a featured artist this month at Spokane’s Art Echos Gallery.

Tan’s exotic kites will hang from the ceiling. He has crafted delicate, ornate Oriental kites for several years.

Among Tan’s best-known architectural works are Gonzaga University’s Foley Center and Jundt Art Center, the Chase Gallery in Spokane City Hall and the Ballet Studio for Theatre Ballet of Spokane.

Anne Sherrodd’s floral and scenic watercolors will also be featured during June in the gallery. Sherrodd is a longtime resident of the Spokane Valley.

Art Echos Gallery is on the skywalk level of the Sherwood Mall, 510 W. Riverside; gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Sculpture purchased

Colville, Wash., sculptor Jerry McKellar was awarded the Purchase Award for his “Osage Silver” at the recent National Western Art Show in Ellensburg.

The piece was purchased by the Western Art Association for its permanent collection in the Clymer Museum of Art in Ellensburg.

Patron purchase

Spokane artist Donald Clegg received a patron purchase award for his “Arrangement in Purple, Orange and Ochre” from Watercolor U.S.A. The painting is on exhibit at the Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum through Aug. 3.