Community Calendar

Gayle Havercroft is displaying his unique block printing pieces at Indaba Coffee Shop through April and May. He's been perfecting his skills since 2001 and especially enjoys using the Palouse as inspiration for many of his works. Gayle began adding watercolor to the block prints a few years ago. You won't want to miss seeing these.
Come for the art! Stay for the coffee!

Every fourth Wednesday a group of people converge in an appropriate setting. This diverse group of creative individuals share a love of education, and are here to promote their skills, to educate, and to socialize.
Visit! You won't be pressure to become a member, but will have the opportunity to do so.
Ignore the old people in the photo. The younger members were appalled and hid.

The Spokane Watercolor Society's annual Juried National Show had entries from across the nation. Juried by National Award-Winning Artist, David R. Smith, over $1500 in cash and product awards will be presented at the Awards Reception on May 16 from 2:30-5:00 p.m. Admission is free to the Helen South Alexander Gallery (annex) and it is a great "friends and family" activity.

ALL ARTISTS in Spokane and the surrounding areas are invited to attend the May 27th meeting of the River Ridge Association of Fine Arts as a guest. You will meet other artists, hear an educational presentation (after all the business stuff is taken care of!), and learn of the opportunities RRAFA offers to its members. You will be invited (but not pressured) to become a member to take advantage of the showing and learning activities RRAFA offers. Dues are only $30 a year.
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month at Spokane Art Supply.

There is a school of thought that artists must have only one recognizable style but Cherylee Duncan has too much artful energy to adhere to that 'rule'. If she has a distinct trademark, it would be 'eclectic' ~ Cherylee abhors waste and therefore get excited about reusing and upcycling as much as possible, to emulate nature's delight in each piece.

When she crochets rugs from all recycled fabrics Cherylee saves bits and pieces for use in mixed media paintings. This method, along with using only what is already on hand, is how she has created her new series, Threadscapes II ~ the options are excitingly endless.

Stop by Pottery Place Plus in the historic Liberty Building this May to see Cherylee's work ~ come by First Friday May 1st to meet Cherylee in person!

This show centers around the flow of life in the natural world, illuminated by the slanting light at the edges of dawn and dusk. The paintings celebrate life’s small wonders; the fleeting instance of a hummingbird, the rushing sound of a waterfall, the sweet smell of spring grass bending to the hooves of a new foal.

“Native Mother Nature” is a grand centerpiece of creatures engaging in a peaceful afternoon of spirits coming together, celebrating the simple joys of living as intended; and the painting “The Big Red Horse” honors the year of the fire horse, a year of building for a future of powerful beginnings.

Stop by the Liberty Gallery at 203 N. Washington St during May to see Janene's painting ~ stop by First Friday May 1st from 5-8pm to meet Janene in person!

This show brings together a group of local artists working in clay, paper, glass, wood, metal and fiber to create pieces that sit between use & sculpture. Some can be held or worn, while others ask to be looked at slowly. All of them start with materials we recognize and then are transformed into something beautiful and unexpected. 

Prints by Bri Covert with Turned & Carved Wood Vessels by Connor Kelly

Madeline Eileen Goolie, known as MEG, is an Alaskan-born printmaking and multimedia artist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Washington State University with a focus on relief printmaking. Her practice grows naturally out of her time spent in the wilderness of the Alaskan coast, where she has had many encounters with the numerous animal inhabitants of the region. Her recent work explores themes of memory, loss, and familial connections through symbolic animal imagery. Madeline actively showcases her work at galleries, fairs, and artist markets throughout the Inland / Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Please join Sravasti Abbey and 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha for an opportunity that will never come again. On Saka Dawa Duchen (Vesak) 2026, add your voice to a chorus of monastic and lay reciters in the first ever English reading of the newly translated "Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines Sutra."  For more than two millennia "The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines" has been revered throughout the Buddhist world as the most concise, yet all-encompassing, expression of the Buddha’s teaching on Prajnaparamita, the “second turning of the wheel” of the perfection of wisdom. Monastics and lay reciters are welcomed. The sutra will be read aloud in unison in three 2-hour sessions daily. The entire resounding will also be live-streamed on YouTube with a scrolling text so you can recite along from anywhere in the world.