Freelance ARTISTS in NCW. During these uncertain times, consider alternate streams of revenue or markets if public events and classes are canceled. Here are resources for you. COVID-19 Freelance Artist ResourcesAn aggregated list of FREE resources, opportunities, and financial relief options available to artists of all disciplines. Includes emergency funding opportunities, best practices for online… [Read More]
Today, 2020
FIND ONLINE RESOURCES HERE Community members, as individuals, parents, family members, friends, children, I recommend that as we all work to get through this unprecedented situation, I encourage you to embrace what we can from this slowdown and reconnect with yourself and those closest to you. To help facilitate this, Methow Arts will launch several… [Read More]
ARTtoday from Methow Arts. As part of our new community engagement during these uncertain times we offer “Poems to Lean On”, from Claudia Castro Luna, WA State’s Poet Laureate, a space where we can share with each other poems to offer fortitude, hope, resilience, humor. The idea is to share a link to a poem and… [Read More]
March 2020
Five artists were selected to participate in April’s Methow River CHA CHA Artist Residency, a program of Icicle Fund in celebration of its 20th Anniversary. The Artist Residency, name CHA CHA after Icicle Fund’s three areas of focus Conservation, History and Arts, will be held over 3 days in the Methow Valley starting on Friday,… [Read More]
February 2020
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts What do you get when you mix a winter day, trailside art, a park that honors salmon and the Methow People, and an outdoor ice rink? You get 78 happy second graders, that’s what! A field trip to the Methow Valley for Okanogan School District second graders… [Read More]
Spring 2020
Photographer Pearl Cherrington is one of the original members of the Winthrop Gallery which was started about 18 years ago in downtown Winthrop. But, her interest in photography begin long before that she was around 10 years old using her mother’s old Brownie twin lens reflex camera. Growing up in the rolling hills of Kansas,… [Read More]
February 2020
By Ashley Lodato, Arts Education Director – Methow Arts Alliance If you’ve ever read an essay inspired by a painting, or listened to a song prompted by a poem, or watched a dance influenced by a sculpture, then you’ve experienced ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the practice of exploring a piece of art through the lens of a different medium, to… [Read More]
Spring 2020
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts Although none of the members of the Liberty Bell Drama Company (LBDC) in the Methow Valley School District were alive during the heyday of the Swedish pop music supergroup ABBA, they’re as familiar with the band’s songs as any 1970s disco fan on the club circuit—and perhaps… [Read More]