STUDIOS
Maggie Andersen Studio - 19610 N. Hatch RD, Colbert, WA 99005
Gina Freuen Studio - 15205 N. Shady Slope RD, Spokane, WA 99208
Collista Krebs Studio - 21415 N.Panorama RD, Colbert, WA 99005
Jill Smith Studio - N. 15221 Shady Slope RD, Spokane, WA 99208
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Maggie Andersen Studio
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Maggie Andersen - Colbert, WA -Mixed Sculpture & Paintings
As a mixed media artist, I explore concepts, materials and unique items into metal garments. I also will be showing paintings and assemblages.
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Rosemary Barile - Spokane, WA - Encaustics
I work primarily with encaustic; a combination of molten, pigmented beeswax and damar resin that hardens as it cools. The paint is applied with a brush to a rigid, porous surface (usually wood) then fused with heat. Because the wax cools quickly, a torch is used to blend colors and fuse layers of wax to each other. Many times I embed collage materials such as cloth or elements of nature, carve and scrape away the surfaces, adding visual richness and mystery.
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Chris Bradley - Cheney, WA - Knives & Woodworking
After a 20 year career as a manufacturing engineer in the cabinet industry, I traded computerized machinery for a table saw and began my own woodworking business. In the last 6 years, I have devoted more and more time to the craft of blacksmithing and knife making. Now living in Cheney WA, I am very excited to pursue my craft as a woodworker and knifemaker to its fullest extent.
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Keith Harrop - Post Falls, ID - Pencil & Charcoal
Life can be so hard for us all sometimes. I want to bring something new and magical to people. Bring back a sense of wonderment and charm.
My artwork is simply pencil on paper. (Graphite and charcoal.) It's intentionally traditional but laced with expressions that are timeless.
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Gayle Havercroft - Spokane, WA - Relief Printing & Watercolor
I am a lifelong resident of the Spokane area, and my art reflects my love of our region. I am primarily an artist of landscapes subjects using relief printing as the main media that I work in. I also do graphite and pen and ink drawings, and watercolor paintings.
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Daris Judd - Sagle, ID - Painting
I consider my self an Abstract Creative.
My work is the result of years working and perfecting multiple medias.
I love creating and getting my hands dirty, it is in my blood.
Presently I work in acrylic and collage paintings.
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T Kurtz - Spokane, WA - Pastels
Art that has no heroes, no message; only a moment of peace and serenity. Art that pulls people off their busy path and gives them an unexpected moment of peace.
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Linda Malcom - Spokane, WA - Beadwork & Basketry
Beaded/felted wall art and jewelry, coiled yarn sculptures, some greeting cards.
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Jacquie Masterson - Spokane Valley, WA - Collage Paperworks
My years as a designer, and love of vintage papers and typography, add complexity and meaning that can be seen throughout my work. I often hear comments from people viewing my work that it's beautiful from a distance but gets more and more interesting the closer they get. I am also told that I perfectly capture the spirit of my subjects, which is the greatest compliment I can receive.
To create my work, I use a variety of mediums and materials including vintage papers, antique sheet music and books, stamps, maps, handmade papers, watercolors, acrylics, and pen and ink.
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Ken Nguyen-Scott - Spokane, WA - Pottery
In the late 90s, I was teaching stained glass as a non-credit class at the University of Hawai'i and when my students were busy and didn't need help for a few minutes, I would wander over to the ceramics classroom next door and watch. I eventually signed up for a class there and ceramics has become my primary medium.
While I like clean, contemporary styles, I'm also drawn to more ornamented styles and have developed skills for carving clay in order to create pieces that are complexly decorated, borrowing ideas from various sources and incorporating them into my mostly functional work, mugs, bowls, etc., .
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Gwyn Pevonka - Medical Lake, WA - Dimensional Painting and Jewelry
My paintings are created one-layer-a-day for 20-30 consecutive days. Once the paintings have cured I carve into the surface revealing the layers beneath, this is my favorite part of the process. This is my soul, my abstracts. I have started to experiment with the pieces that were carved away by using what has been carved away, slicing the paint chips into small slivers and creating collages, I call Acrylic Assemblages.
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Natalie Shepard - Tacoma, WA - Ceramics
As a Ceramic artist I make most predominantly functional pots for the home. My work is fired atmospheric kilns which highlights subtle details and an earth inspired palette. I pull from the colors of the mountains, the movement of streams and patterns of fire. Clay is the medium but also at the center of my work. I often leave areas unglazed; intentionally engaging the user with its raw and tactile properties.I incorporate natural materials such as sand, wood ash and wild clay slips.
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Hannah Wiebe-Potter - Spokane, WA - Botanical Watercolor
Hannah Potter is a self-taught naturalist illustrator residing in Spokane, Washington. A born and raised member of the Pacific Northwest, Hannah draws inspiration from the wide diversity of organisms across the multiple biomes of Washington state, as well as organisms from around the globe. Using a combination of watercolor, gouache, and mixed media, Hannah focuses on bringing attention to the intricate details and textures that make these organisms unique.
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Amber Wyckoff - Nine Mile Falls, WA - Jewelry
I love playing with fire & metal! I hand fabricated nature inspired wearable artwork. I hand saw, texture, solder and stone set my pieces. I love working with mixed metals of sterling silver & copper.
Gina Freuen Studio
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Gina Freuen - Spokane, WA - Pottery & Sculpture
One of four tour hosts for the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour, my studio will feature electric and soda fired ceramic forms, both functional and sculptural. Work is full of texture, surface surprise and whimsy, flowing from my love of gardening and having muddy hands. Enjoy seeing my working studio and the big soda kiln I fire and then please feel free to roam my gardens as they are as meaningful to me as my art.
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Linda Ballard - Longview, WA - One of a Kind Bags
I bring vintage textiles, leather tack, and leather belts together to make one of a kind bags.
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Cheryl DeGroot - Tacoma, WA - Jewelry
I began my artist journey with jewelry making classes at Olympic College but I am mostly self taught. I have also been a shipyard welder a d rigger, a bartender, kodiak cab driver and assistant chimney sweep. Specifically though, for the past 30 years I've worked full time designing and making jewelry at DeGroot Designs.
See my Work at Seattle Art Museum, LeRoy Jewelers in Tacoma, Zuma in Pt Reyes, CA, EarthWorks in Yachats, OR.
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Sheila Evans - Spokane, WA - Painting & Enamels
The natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, combined with a newfound love of birding, inspires my most recent work. In my paintings, I express the wonder of fleeting moments found on hikes in the woods, kayak trips, and even in my backyard. The images reflect a return to my botanical roots inspired by the birds I observe and photograph. I hope that through them, the viewer will see what I see: a world worth saving.
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Amalia Fisch - Spokane, WA - Painting
Primarily a painter of landscapes and botanical pieces, my work has always been a direct response to my environment and the beauty all around us. I work from a combination of direct observation, memory, visual reference, (studies, sketches, photographs), and imagination.
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Kris Howell - Green Valley, AZ - Jewelry
I like the challenge of combining stone with metal, and organic shapes with clean design lines to find a "story" that will connect with someone in a meaningful way. It always pleases me when someone is immediately attracted to one certain piece. This phenomenon emphasizes the intimacy of wearing one-of-a-kind art. Each hand-crafted piece is thoughtfully created with wearability integral to the design.
I strive to create well designed wearable jewelry that conveys a sense of self.
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Chris Kelsey - Spokane, WA - Ceramics & Sculpture
Whether sculptural or functional, my ceramic work consists of clean lines, subtle curves and crisp edges. I often rely on the firing process to give the work more surface information through visual texture.
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Michele Mokrey - Spokane, WA - Fiber Arts
My work is defined by a strong sense of play and experimentation, which is the backbone of my creative process. I use color as an expressive tool to add depth and character to my designs. My expertise in felting, textile collage, stitching, crochet, embroidery, and fabric embellishment allows me to showcase various colors, forms, and textures in my wearable accessories and wall hangings.
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CJ Morrison - Spokane, WA - Wood Working
I utilize several different tools and methods of woodworking to bring my 2D geometric and mountain landscapes to life. Each piece is meant to highlight the natural grain pattern variation in different wood species. Color is used to add depth, layers, and vibrancy while allowing the texture of the wood to shine through. Inspired by nature’s symmetry and variation, each piece I make is developed to enhance these qualities of our natural world while maintaining visual appeal. My work is meant to bring joyous recognition of life’s symmetry and nature’s patterning and variation.
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Katie Patten / Leonard Tinnell - Missoula, MT - Glass
The aspen series uses glass Frits and powders along with sheet glass to create depth and detail with a painterly approach to each piece
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Will Richards - Underwood, WA - Lamps
Epoxy composite /carbon fiber shades mix and match on Raku fired bases.
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Barb Safranek / Francy King - Spokane, WA - Designer Garments
Francy King Wearable art is designed and sewn by Barbara Safranek, inspired by the exuberant prints popular in Africa called Dutch Wax and mixed with repurposed wools and other fabrics to created uniquely North American garments. It’s my great pleasure to create elegant and playful wearable art that explores the joy and boundaries of self-expression.
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Deb Sheldon - Spokane, WA - Painting
I paint with acrylics and water based medium. I also create mixed media work with papers and text. My subject is mostly abstract but I love to work in narrative when I have a story to tell.
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Dan Sterrett - Spokane, WA - Leather Handbags
Handsewn purses. Every piece is a unique work of art.
Collista Krebs Studio
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Collista Krebs - Colbert, WA - Ceramics & Sculpture
Inspiration for my work often comes from the animals and organisms that cross my path while in nature. My devotion to texture and commitment to balanced work comes from an encounter that I had working as a nurse. While caring for a blind woman in the emergency department, she explained the basis of her world; visual esthetics played no part in her choices, her world was based on sound and texture.
So I hope that when you hold one of my pieces in your hands you can close your eyes and conjure up a tale.
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Daniel Droz - Spokane, WA - Mixed Media Sculpture
Our world exists in three dimensions; but there is a fourth, non-discursive realm: The Fourth Vortex. I create three dimensional works from salvaged items, especially abandoned musical instruments. I like used things; they capture the energy of those that have handled them before. Musical instruments are especially infused with effort, emotion and creativity and yet they are eventually abandoned. There is an existential message in this as items that once held “meaning” have been allowed to become dilapidated and discarded. The goal of my mixed media sculptures is to initially appear as sound but be revealed as shadows and light as in the instant eternity between lighting and thunder
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MaryAnn Fiorillo - Moscow, ID - Mixed Media 2D
I paint using Fluid Acrylic and resin on a repurposed material that is cuttable and sculptable. My process and subjects speak to the metamorphic shape-shifting qualities of living.
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Diane Rowen Gamire - Spokane, WA - Felt and Fiber Works
Diane Rowen Garmire is a retired art teacher living in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. She works daily in her home studio on a range of artwork that includes paintings, illustrations and fiber art. Diane is a full exhibiting member of the New Moon Gallery and also offeres art classes for adults at the gallery. In addition, the Little Spokane River Artists Studio Tour is her second venue for exhibition and marketing of her various fiber art pieces. You may follow Diane Rowen on Facebook.
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Madeline Goolie - Pullman, WA - Printmaking
I am interested in expressing extravagant, overwhelming, feelings through prints. I believe that it is better to feel anything rather than nothing at all. These linocut prints are influenced by dramatic and exaggerated features that are often pulled from my own insecurities. I select certain animal imagery to include in my work based on their symbolisms. Printmaking is often a strict art form, while my moody art style is loose and free formed a contrast that is important to me in my process.
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Melissa Isaacson - Spokane, WA - Painting
I paint the stories of places. I start all of my pieces from life, whether it's on the final canvas or a sketch on Artboard. While I work on capturing the visual details, I use my phone to capture images of the stories taking place within that space. These stories have become a way for me to use visual language to share what I experience and connect with the community while I'm painting and again when I am able to share the finished work.
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Debbie McCulley - Spokane, WA - Painting
Imagine a world where chickens ride pigs and frogs accompany your next adult beverage! Now you see the world through my eyes. My intention is to take the otherwise ordinary object or being and put my own quirky twist on it.
Although creative fun is the recurring theme to much of my work, the more serious side of my art is inspired by nature and I enjoy bringing it to life with vibrant color.
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Dona Miller - Joseph, OR - Jewelry
Art, especially jewelry, is very personal. The combination of elegance and grace, of sophistication and simplicity, of refinement and subtlety, of old and new, defines my work. My inspiration comes from the spiritual aspects of life, the patterns of nature, traditional arts and from my life experiences and loves.
I enjoy finding unique focal stones that are the center piece of my designs and combining them with accent stones that enhance their beauty. More often than not, the piece itself directs me in its design and construction. Through me, a piece can bring a person hope or understanding, comfort or happiness.
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Sonny & Lisa Moeckel - Spokane, WA - Painting
We are a married artist duo who collaborate simultaneously on the same canvas using primarily oil paints by combining our abstract and realistic styles to create expressionist paintings. Our unique collaborations evoke human emotions and vulnerability through painterly lines and vivid colors. We allow the painterly lines to show through in our work to display our process. Each layer takes weeks, and often months to dry. It can take years for one painting to reach completion.
As an Indigenous artist, culture has inspired many of our works and we hopes to remind people of the importance of indigenous people, and the struggles they have had to overcome, both in the past and present. We want the viewer to experience the spirit of the Indigenous people and the importance of working together.
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Megan Perkins - Deer Park, WA - Painting
I am a recorder by nature. Drawing the world around me is a way for me to inhabit my life rather than letting it get away from me. It leaves a physical record that helps me pay attention to what I'm doing and where I am and it takes time, leaving me open to experiences and to connecting to strangers when I draw or paint on location. To me, making art is a road to experiencing and truly seeing a place, object or person. Not only a way to absorb the beauty of the world around me, but also to understand my surroundings; how an object is put together, why a building or configuration of light and shadow caught my eye. Art is a path into deeper understanding and communion with both places and people. I make colorful watercolor paintings as a way of holding up the quotidian of life as worthy of attention and sharing with others.
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Betsy Pozzanghera - Spokane, WA - Artisanal Handbags
B. Pozzitive Bags, a 7-year artisanal handbag business, transforms cherished leather items into bespoke bags. Betsy, the one-woman powerhouse behind the brand, caters to art-loving women who crave uniqueness. Using quality hardware and reinforced cotton lining, each bag is an original design, crafted with love and a commitment to sustainability. Plus, her Ancestry Project breathes new life into sentimental items, creating not just a bag, but a memory to carry.
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Michelle Schneider - Cheney, WA - Ceramics
I create thoughtful forms with a depth of surface through the use of textured clay, layered glazes, wild clay, wood ash, and fire and heat from the kiln. I am fascinated with the serendipitous interaction of the clay, glaze, and fire, causing the user to have unanswered questions that reveal themselves with the using. My pottery is a product of my own creative thoughts and experimentation, filtered through my training and continual learning.
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Linnea Tobias - Spokane, WA - Painting
l create mixed media paintings inspired by my walks in my neighborhood. The birds, trees, animals, plants, light and colors that I see emerge later in the paintings I create. I’m also influenced by the plants and patterns in my garden, textiles, folklore, fairytales, my family, my pets and other critters. Bits and pieces of my every day life come together in my paintings and they tell my story. I want to create the world of my dreams- a place filled with color, magic, and a connection to nature.
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Mary Gayle Young - Sagle, Idaho - Jewelry
Using unusual and innovative materials and techniques, my work is bold, organic, colorful with an elegant flair. Flame painting on copper and forging aluminum create original and one of a kind designs. Earth Wear brings you the JOY OF JEWELRY to express your inner glow.
Jill Smith Studio
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Jill Smith - Spokane, WA - Pottery & Jewelry
I grew up making mud pies! My claywork has always been about process, relationship and my surroundings. Taking the fluidity of clay in my hands and transforming it into lasting rigidity lets me express the feeling of place and give it a related connection in creative work. My creative process starts with a mental image which is then given physical form; for me it must involve vision, challenge, resourceful materials and a sense of playfulness. Besides still making pots that people use in their daily life some of my current work involves writing “Far Fetched Fables” that are then expressed physically in clay totems. These totemic symbols forever hardened in clay tell stories that connect us to nature and our place in it. I also have a clay school where I teach and share the passion I have for clay.
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Sam Bates - Evans, WA - Carved Stone
I design and carve stone artwork. From tiny hand-held sculptures to large architectural relief-carvings, monuments, furniture, and everything between. This diversity is all a part of our my mission, which is to create fine art in one of nature’s most beautiful and enduring materials: stone.
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Lisa Brown - Spokane, WA, Painting
My paintings seek to explore the endless wealth of imagery found in nature in both a representational and abstract way and from a variety of vantage points. I work in both watercolor and oil paint media. Techniques such as painting with other liquid media (wine, coffee, wax) as well as weaving together 2 paintings to create a reborn piece have been a part of my art journey.
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Rick Davis - Spokane, WA - Metal Sculpture
Through sculptural fabrication I try to bring scrap steel, copper, and industrial parts to life. From the quirky, to the serious message piece, and from the utilitarian to the decorative, I attempt to bring beauty and grace to used, and discarded metal
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Mike DeCesare - Spokane, WA - Photography
My art fuses a deep love of nature with an academic education in photography, to interpret and convey nature’s grandeur, inspiration, and mystery, in a way that invites a viewer to create their own interpretation and emotional bond. My deep, personal commitment to environmental preservation underscores my pledge to do no harm and leave no trace wherever I photograph.
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Ruly Deen - Spokane, WA - Jewelry
I call my style Symbolic Landscape. My handmade works are amulets and talismans; wearable, symbolic pieces that reflect emotion through metaphor. I am interested in human connection and our quest for spiritual meaning, as it is revealed in our relationships with the natural world. These ideas take form in metal through a process called fabrication. Silver sheet and wire is cut, formed and soldered to make settings for non-traditional gems, then pierced and carved to add texture and depth. I make multiple layers to create intricate details, just as nature does. The resulting work is a single object; silver and gem melded into an amulet.
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Nan Drye - Spokane Valley, WA - Fiber Arts
Eco printing, a form of natural dyeing, is steam contact printing on fabric with plant material. No inks or paints are used, all the color and pattern you see come directly out of the leaves that I use. I use this process to make scarves, shawls, and small accessories.
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Lynn & Mark Gardner - Sandpoint, ID - Jewelry & Mixed Media
Living in North Idaho is the most inspiring place we have ever lived. The lush forests, lakes, rivers and mountains all inspire our work through texture and color. "Where color meets metal" best describes our whimsical art pieces.
Enamel won my heart 15 years ago and I haven't stopped obsessing over it yet. My husband Mark learned silversmithing in high schools and still enjoys sitting down at his bench. Every so often I can talk him into collaborating with me as his silver is a nice compliment to my enamel.
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Robin Kahn - Spokane, WA - Jewelry
began making jewelry after 27 years of teaching special education. Working with children, I've always dabbled in a spectrum of handicrafts but never had the gift of time to develop a passion for making jewelry until I retired.
My interest at present is refining my skills in metalsmithing by using silver, copper and brass, creating pendants, bracelets and earrings. Enhancing these pieces with texture and patina is so gratifying. I’m continuing to develop my passion with torch and kiln-fired copper enamel.
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Amy Mickelson - Spokane, WA - Jewelry
Amy Mickelson, is a designer and maker, who creates jewelry using colorful glass beads, and other materials.
“I have an innate sense of color and am known for creating jewelry in interesting and pleasing color combinations. I am intrigued by the endless possibilities of color combinations that working with glass beads allows. Much of my time in the design process is spent choosing colors.
My designs use sculptural and off-loom weavigg techniques, glass beads of all shapes and sizes. Pieces may also incorporate fibers, wood, ceramic, metal, buttons, resin, leather and upcycled materials.
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LR Montgomery - Spokane, WA - Painting
Since childhood, I’ve loved the hidden secrets, wide expanses, and the beauty of our fragile rivers, streams, lakes, forests, mountains, meadowlands and sky.
This love is shared with those who have walked trails, delighted in outdoor waters, watched sunsets, or in any way enjoyed nature.
Collectors say they can hear the water, smell the forest, and feel the wind in these paintings. Bring your out-door experiences and memories into your home, work spaces and recreational abodes with original LR Montgomery landscape paintings of places you love in the NW.
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Lauren Peterson - Nine Mile Falls, WA - Pottery
I have been a potter for over 30 years,all my work is wheel thrown and hand painted. I'm inspired by the the things I love in life.
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Karlene Schoedel - Chattaroy, WA - Recycled Metals
I have fun working with recycled metals and found objects to make unique, one-of-a-kind pieces. I love working with old rusty metal that has moved though time and space, so I can create something “new!”
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Emma Sheldon - Spokane, WA - Printmaking and Painting
Emma Sheldon was born and raised in Spokane, Wa by artists ( Deb and Jason Sheldon). This upbringing naturally led her to study Graphic Design. Due to the hands-on creation she was used to, Graphic Design on its own just didn’t feed her. She learned intaglio and moved on to study letterpress for 2 years. Emma has her 100+ year old presses in her late father's garage on the south hill. She prints and designs postcards, art prints and more. Letterpress is a centuries-old craft that is an incredible marriage of old and new. Emma’s oldest press is over 120 years old and runs smoother than ever. The presses have a rhythm to their movement that resembles a well choreographed ballet. Every part in its place, moving in mesmerizing unison. The process of this style of printing is one that requires patience and knowledge. Each color of ink is hand mixed. Only one color can be printed at a time. And each piece of paper is hand fed. Every step is full of intention and done by hand!
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Gay Waldman - Spokane, WA - Composite Photographs
Gay Waldman’s artwork is particularly intriguing with the way her images overlap, hide behind one another, then peak out and encourage the viewer to look carefully and think. Her artwork making relies on constant exploration using a multitude of her photographs layered with rich color and translucent texture. Her imagery includes flora, birds, landscape, seasons, and occasional geometric relics.
In a significant way, her work expands how the viewer perceives, considers, and interprets photographic media as art. Selections of Gay’s artwork are currently showing online at linked website above,, in local galleries, and at her Spokane home retail studio shop, StuDio WaHoo.
Plan Your Day
Food and Beverage service, full or light offerings.
At the Freuen Studio is the local non profit: Light a Lamp/ Project Lift Up - offering beverages, muffins, and a chili feed in the afternoon. All food is available with a donation.
At the Kreb’s Studio is the non- profit: Full Circle Equine Rehabilitation Center offering beverages and hand foods, cookies, muffins. All food is available with a donation.
At the Andersen Studio is Gypsy Java offering coffee, tea, and smoothies. No food.