TOWN OF TWISP – GATEWAY AND PUBLIC ART PROJECT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Download Application and RFP Info CLICK HERE ———————————- Deadline: June 22, 2018 Budget: $60,000 budget Contact: Amanda Jackson Mott, Methow Arts Alliance amanda@methowartsalliance.org Email only please. No phone calls. The Town of Twisp cordially invites applications from artists or artist teams to submit… [Read More]
Support and learn about the first Arts Resource Center of its kind in North Central Washington You can support this new initiative throughout the month of October through Give Methow, a fundraising program through the Community Foundation of North Central WA. CLICK HERE to grow with us and donate now We need your help to… [Read More]
Exhibit: July 25-Sept 17
From late July to mid-September the artists of the Winthrop Gallery will present a show of art that contemplates the concept of sustenance. The things that not only feed our bodies but also nurture our souls. For this show, encaustic painter Tamara Abate offers a new work titled “Feels Like Home.” For Tamera this… [Read More]
Arts Education Spotlight
by Ashley Lodato Arts Education Director photos by Rachel Stratman Third grade students at Methow Valley Elementary School had no idea that they could make art using a rock and some flowers, but after a day of learning the Victorian art of flower bashing, they were sold on the process. No one confers as much… [Read More]
June 2018-May 2019
Methow Arts announces the installation of the annual display of student artwork at Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak. Working with Twisp artist Bruce Morrison, second grade students at Virginia Grainger Elementary School in Okanogan have painted enlarged versions of flowers in the Georgia O’Keeffe tradition, using oil pastels and watercolor paints. Eleven new original student works… [Read More]
Celebration is May 31, 5:30-7pm. Conference June 1, 2018
Eight years ago, staff at Methow Valley Elementary School began collaborating with Methow Arts on an ambitious project: a Young Writers’ Conference (YWC)—a day-long series of workshops that engage students in writing activities, including attending small-group workshops of their choice. The YWC has grown in subsequent years to include workshop presenters like authors, artists, storytellers,… [Read More]
Arts Education Spotlight
Each winter, Brewster 5th graders participate in a 5-week poetry residency, working with Methow Arts teaching poet Kelleigh McMillan. Students become familiar with “painting pictures with words” and with relating their emotions to the natural world. Each week they experiment with a different poetic concept: simile, metaphor, free verse, stanza, etc. Students write poems about their bedrooms,… [Read More]
by Ashley Lodato Education Director, Methow Arts In a unit that combined plant biology with field journalling, sketching, and botanical watercolors, Okanogan 5th graders observed, studied, drew, and painted plants and vegetation native to the Okanogan region. First, students worked with longtime Okanogan teacher and artist Jim Anderson to design and construct field journals using… [Read More]