Known for adventuresome programs and exciting interpretations of both time-honored and unfamiliar repertoire, the 2018 Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival will showcase some of the most challenging masterworks of chamber music, including quartets by Bartók. The Aizuri Quartet, winners of the 9th annual Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and currently quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum… [Read More]
December 2017
Fourth graders at East Omak Elementary School combined fiber arts with their perspectives on winter in a felted wool residency. Working with teaching artist Annie Venable, students explored the process of wet felting. First, students spent time observing and reflecting on the colors, traditions, and themes of winter. Next, they composed pieces of writing describing their observations. Some wrote poems… [Read More]
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts At Brewster Elementary School, music assemblies are always bilingual, thanks to the skills of sign language interpreter Gail Brand. So whether students are deaf or hard of hearing, they can still experience the performances Methow Arts brings into the six schools in the Okanogan County Arts Education… [Read More]
Emerging artists – you know who you are; the ones who have been working on their creations secretively and in their spare time. You have given away many of your pieces of art already. There are no more relatives left on which to bestow the next masterpiece. So you wonder, are you ready to start… [Read More]
Meet the Winthrop Gallery’s newest co-op member, oil painter Susan Donahue. Susan paints landscapes of the Methow Valley and other places that she visits. She also paints still lifes. “In my landscape paintings, I present a specific time and place so that the viewer can have an emotional response to the scene similar to what… [Read More]
Samantha Carlin’s passion for glass started in the early 90s with an introductory stained-glass class. She continued creating stained glass pieces and in 2003 she was introduced to blown glass. Sam then trained in a production studio practicing the “offhand” style of glassblowing as a solo blower, a style that carries over into her work… [Read More]
Door No. 3 Print Studio’s latest calendar bursts off the page in every color of the rainbow. Each month features a primary or complimentary color as depicted in the traditional color wheel–ranging from… [Read More]
Cascadia Music offers several scholarships under the Christine Cherrington Memorial Scholarship Program. This fall Cascadia awarded seven scholarships of $150 to deserving students to defer the costs of lessons. These awards are available to music students in the valley taking lessons who need assistance meeting the costs of lessons. This spring Cascadia will offer these… [Read More]