Young string players learn technique, teamwork When Pipestone Summer Music Camp is in session, it doesn’t take more than a couple steps into the Methow Valley Community Center to hear the ringing voices of an orchestra. Past the front desk and through an open classroom door, the thunderous tones of a cello section call out […]
ARTS
Happiness is where you find it in exhibit opening at The Confluence this weekend
Happiness is not so much a theme explored but a feeling experienced by the artists who contributed to a new exhibit at The Confluence: Art in Twisp. Curated by Sarah Jo Lightner, the exhibit “Happiness Found: Dan Brown & Friends” features artwork that made the artists happy when they were creating it, Brown said. For […]
Arts Briefs: Poetry Journal release party, Live music this month
Poetry Journal release party Poets from around the Columbia plateau will converge on Mazama at 7 p.m. on Thursday (Aug. ) 4 to read new work from the 2022 Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal. The poetry readings for this year’s release party for the Journal will be held on the back lawn of The Inn at Mazama. The […]
Poetry Journal release party in Mazama
Poets from around the Columbia plateau will converge on Mazama at 7 p.m. on Aug. 4 to read new work from the 2022 Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal. The poetry readings for this year’s release party for the Journal will be held on the back lawn of The Inn at Mazama. The Journal is published annually by […]
Arts Briefs: New shows at Confluence, Live music
New shows at Confluence The Confluence: Art in Twisp debuts two new exhibits on Aug. 6: In the main gallery, “Happiness Found: Dan Brown and Friends” will feature the works of Okanogan County artist Dan Brown using found objects, curated by Sarah Jo Lightner. In the Community Gallery, “First Ascents,” a tribute to the legendary […]
Planting the seeds for a lifetime of learning
Kids dig Classroom in Bloom camps By 10 a.m. on a July morning, the garden between Methow Valley Elementary School and Liberty Bell Junior/Senior High School is already astir with excited chatter. Through the wooden gate, past the greenhouse, and up above well-watered rows of raspberries, marigolds and leeks, more than a dozen elementary […]
Peterson-Aspholm visits Chicago to receive national architecture award for Little Star
In May, Prentiss+Balance+Wickline Architects won an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Education Facility Design Award for the Little Star School’s “Galaxy” building. At the end of June the lead architect for the project, Margo Peterson-Aspholm, traveled to Chicago to accept the award at the annual AIA conference, accompanied by her husband, Methow Valley teacher David […]
Arts Briefs: Ross painting classes, Live music
Ross painting classes TwispWorks will offer several classes on the Bob Ross wet-on-wet painting technique this summer, with Ross-certified instructors Jolene Culler and Cheryl Brundage. The classes, which cost $75 each including supplies, are from noon – 3 p.m. on July 23, Aug. 13 and Aug. 27. Visit twispworks.org for more information. Live music Methow Music Monthly, compiled […]
Winthrop R&B Festival returns at full volume
All-star lineup for three-day event As the Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival website says, “It’s happening!” After COVID forced blues lovers to go for two years without the memorable July weekend of spirited blues, funk, dancing and hanging with friends, the festival is back, with a first-rate line-up. As always, the festival showcases blues legends […]
Fetherston named executive director at The Confluence
The Confluence: Art in Twisp has named Betsy Fetherston, an experienced art gallery director, as its new Executive Director. Confluence said in a press release that Fetherston will start in her now position in late summer or early fall. The gallery and art center has been looking for an executive director for several months, since […]
