Grant Recipients To Display Work At Chase
The days of art sponsors, such as Michelangelo and da Vinci enjoyed, may be long past, but there are some agencies which help support artists today.
The nonprofit Washington State Artist Trust was founded in 1986 by a group of artists, arts administrators and arts patrons seeking a creative solution to financially help individual artists create new art in the state, says Karen Mobley, director of the City of Spokane Arts Commission.
Through this month, Eastern Washington recipients of Artist Fellowships and Grants for Artist Projects will exhibit their works in City Hall’s Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Spokane Arts Commission.
Artists showing their works are Ralph Busch, Robin Dare, Lanny DeVuono, Mary Farrell, Gina Freuen, Keiko Hara, Wendy Franklund Miller, Mel McCuddin, Thomas O’Day, Barbara Jean Rice, Charlie Schmidt, Ruben Trejo and Ken Yuhasz.
Anita Endrezze and O’Day, artists of the written word who have won grants, will read from their works during an artists’ reception July 17, 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
A poetry reading and performance by writers will follow the reception.
Chase Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and whenever City Hall is open for public meetings.
Americana art at Print House
Original paintings of Charles Wysocki, called the Master of Americana, will be displayed through July 20 at Print House Gallery, 409 S. Dishman-Mica Road.
The exhibit is part of a tour of 19 galleries across the country which began last July and concludes in January 1999.
“The Painting of an American Tradition: 25 Years of Charles Wysocki’s Americana Calendar” includes 10 framed originals of Americana Calendar covers and “Black Birds Roost at Mill Creek,” one of the artist’s most popular paintings.
Through his distinctive style, Wysocki tells a story of what America might have been like in an earlier century.
Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays.