Nemesis and the Blue Rabbit Fence

Rhea Giffin is the featured artist at the downtown Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside, Spokane, Washington.  View selected pieces from ”Mindful Navigation: The POA Series” as well as other works displayed throughout the building.  Artist reception in conjunction with First Friday Artwalk, May 1st, 5-7 p.m.  The exhibit runs through June 28th.  See PDF of Spokane Club magazine, Signals May 2009 article by Kate Spencer, editor:

See the artist profile by Jennifer LaRue in the March 2009 issue of Spokane-Coeur d’Alene Living.  Look for a copy at your local bookstores and grocery stores in the northwest thru Mid-April. http://www.spokanecda.com/

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Melissa Swann Wagner, co-founder of the Northwest Papier Mâché Artists’ Guild and an accomplished artist in many mediums passed away last week.  We are grateful for knowing her and for her generous contributions to the guild.  Because she touched our lives in such an artful way, the effects of that connection will live on through us!  Still, she will be missed!  (I have not yet been able to find a better or more current photo of her than this one. It features our guild exhibit at Whitworth’s Kohler Gallery http://www.whitworth.edu/ many years ago.  Melissa is in the center wearing a white vest.  The reclining figure above her head is her piece titled “The Reader.”  It was purchased by and resides in the North Idaho College library with many other fine works of art you should visit if you get the chance.)North Idaho College

Melissa and other NWPMAG members and patrons at the Kohler Gallery

Link to a 2006 article about Melissa Swann Wagner in The Deer Park Dispatch http://www.deerparkdispatch.com/archive/?postID=265

Students from Central Valley’s Barker High School http://www.cvsd.org/barker went on a field trip to see “A House Divided: The Legacy of Lincoln” and “Mindful Navigation: The POA Series” art exhibits at the Chase and Kress Galleries.  I was invited to their classroom the following week to see the papier mache projects they are working on.  What a treat!  I very much enjoyed meeting these people and talking with them as they worked on their art.  I appreciate all the stories, comments and great questions they had for me.

On the Wall: Local Artists put their spin on Lincoln–Jennifer Zurlini, Spokesman-Review

Where:  The Harding Family Center, 411 North 15th Street, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

When:  Thursdays, March 5, 12, 19 and 26th, 2009,  6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Who:  Adults* (mature adolescents may be accepted with my prior approval)

Cost:  $85 per person for 4-week series.  Register by March 1, 2009.  To register, call the Harding Family Center, (208) 666-6755

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Come to the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s 24th Annual Works from the Heart Contemporary Art Auction this Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2009.  (If you can’t make it, you can preview the art donations at the link and bid on auction items via telephone.)  Works from the Heart

 A solo exhibit featuring 76 new artworks plus one previously shown but essential to the story.  Artist reception, Friday, February 6th, 5-9 p.m.