Some people are very specific about the “right” time to focus on the holidays. There are those who start decorating as soon as Thanksgiving leftovers are in the fridge, while others aren’t in any hurry to untangle the string lights they tossed in the attic after last year’s festivities.
Passing his 35th year working at The Spokesman-Review newspaper, photojournalist Jesse Tinsley is still trying to capture the joys and highlights of the Spokane region and the people who live here. Some of his favorite things to photograph are landscapes of the Inland Northwest, wildlife, air shows, the dramatic weather of the changing seasons and community events, like Bloomsday and the Fourth of July.
You wouldn’t know it while taking in the exhibits at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, but something has been missing from the museum since 2011.
In a vibrant arts community like Spokane, there are various microcommunities within the city that thrive on their own while also playing a part in the success of the city.
Born and raised in Spokane, Patti Warashina went to Lewis and Clark High School and attended the University of Washington in Seattle. Her goal was to one day become a medical or dental assistant as encouraged by her family.
If you not yet found a reason to visit the Hive, there’s a good one coming up this week. The Spokane Public Library is hosting the 33 Artists Market at the Hive this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Spokane Arts is making the call for high school students from the Spokane area to share their talents by participating in the organization’s Spokane High School Art Wraps project. The project aims to transform traffic signal boxes into vibrant designs of art.
Following a lecture series focused on African American voices in art, American Impressionism, women artists, the Renaissance, French modernism and the female figure, Baroque art and architecture, and the Italian renaissance, a professor of art at Whitworth University, Meredith Shimizu, is bringing another lecture series to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, this time focused on art and feminism.
The voice of Our Generation, the poet, the critic, the documentarian, the historian, the spokesman, the promotor, the emcee, the writer who kept music alive in this city more than any other person in our time – the artist.
Included in the “Be an Art” exhibition opening this Friday at Terrain Gallery is a retro TV set showing the late local rapper Isamu “Som” Jordan explaining to a crowd what “an art” is. After each word about “art” that Som shouts out, he has the audience respond: “Can be an art!”
