ART BEAT

ARTBEAT

“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefl y - revelations unattainable by reason.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hello you amazing animals, you throbbing masses of cellular harmony! February is here with cautious optimism, dirty snow, and fl irtatious sunbeams. Hopefully those dreams on the horizon are coming into focus, reminding you to keep putting one foot in front of the other even if it’s punctuated with stops and starts. The six-person, volunteer committee who make up the new Arts Alliance have been working on the nuts & bolts of a non-profi t organization. Progress made over the last 7 months isn’t too fl ashy but it has cleared a path and made a plan for the next phase of growth.

The Arts Alliance, seeking to represent and support the creative network across NCW, is recruiting board members, funding, and interested participants. This Art Beat doubles as both a newsletter for Alliance activities and a broad list of happenings within reach for anyone residing in central WA. If you have a related event, opportunity, resource, call to action, or are seeking connections with other art - curious humans, please contact us: Wenatchee.arts.alliance@gmail.com

OPPORTUNITIES & DEADLINES

2/9 - COLLAPSE - LIFE DRAWING SESSION, 5:30-7:30pm

2/19 - WVMCC - ACTOR’S WORKSHOP

with Matthew Pippin, 5-7pm 2/22 - ARTSWA AND CLARK COLLEGE - Call for Art/RFQ – seeking artist for project at Clark College’s Boschma Farms Campus, see arts.wa.gov 2/23 - COLLAPSE - Life Drawing Session, 5:307:30pm 2/25 - TWO RIVERS - DEADLINE for March/April exhibit, 11-3pm

2/26 - WVMCC - ACTOR’S WORKSHOP

with Matthew Pippin, 5-7pm 2/26 - TWO RIVERS - DEADLINE for March/April exhibit, 11-3pm 2/27 - GALLERY ONE - DEADLINE for juried show, ‘Undomesticated’

3/5 - WVMCC - ACTOR’S WORKSHOP with Matthew Pippin, 5-7pm 3/12 - WVMCC - ACTOR’S WORKSHOP with Matthew Pippin, 5-7pm 3/15 - SHRUB-STEPPE POETRY JOURNAL - Deadline for submissions, contact Susan Blair sfblair61@gmail.com 4/1 - WRITE ON THE RIVER - DEADLINE for 16th Annual Writer’s Competition

FIRST FRIDAY

FEBRUARY 4

- MAC GALLERY - (WVCC) - Scott Bailey: ‘Accretions’, opening reception, 5-7pm - ROBERT GRAVES GALLERY - (WVCC) - 45th Annual Member’s Exhibit, 5-7pm - GALLERY ONE (ELLENSBURG): ‘Found Footage’ Will Bow & Samantha Birks Fisher. Members’ Show continued, 5-7pm - WVMCC - NCW JURIED EXHIBIT & Sale, 5-7pm - COLLAPSE - Lehman Noviello ‘Lords’, 12-9pm - LEMOLO CAFE - Lorrie Shattuck, open until 8pm - MELA COFFEE CO. - Jamaica Zoglman, open late-ish/ 8-ish - TWO RIVERS - Marilyn Weaver, Jeff Justice, and music by Amy Albright, 5-8pm - FIREHOUSE PETS - Kitty Room: Live, interactive feline fun!! Open until 7pm

Will Bow & Samantha Birks Fisher at Gallery One

MID MONTH EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

2/2 - NCRL - MANY STORIES, ONE COMMU-

NITY: Sharing Our Regional History, 7-8:30pm 2/3 - WVMCC: Environmental Film Series ‘2040’, 7-9pm 2/5 - PUNCH GALLERY (Thorp) - Justin Gibbens: Exhibit and residency, 12-4pm 2/15 - NCRL - Zoom Poetry Night, 7-8:30pm 2/16 - NCRL - NCW Writer’s Group, 4-6pm 2/19 - GALLERY ONE - Meet the Artist: Will Bow & Samantha Birks Fisher, 11:00am 2/23 - SHRUB STEPPE POETRY PODIUM - open to all at Collapse Gallery, 4:30pm start

ARTS-CENTERED RESOURCES,

OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS IN NCW BY LINDSAY BRIEDENTHAL

2/29 - March 6 - Larson Gallery at Yakima Community College - Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints (Genesis - Toussaint L’Ouverture - Hiroshima), hours: Tues-Friday 10am-5pm, Sat. 12-5pm

LINKS & RESOURCES

*Arts WA - https://www.arts.wa.gov/ *MAC - at Wenatchee Valley Community College https://ad-wb-wvc01.wvc.edu/academics/art/macgallery.html *North Central Regional Library https://www.ncwlibraries.org/online-resources/# *Write on the River https://www.writeontheriver.org/ *Collapse - https://www.collapsegallery.com/ *Gallery One - https://www.gallery-one.org/ *WVMCC - Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center https://www.wenatcheevalleymuseum.org/events/ *Shrub Steppe Poetry - https://shrubsteppepoetry.org/

*Icicle Center For the Arts -

https://icicle.org/fi nd-events/ *Confl uence Gallery - https://www.confl uencegallery.org/ *Methow Arts - http://www.methowarts.org/ *Cafe Mela - https://melacoff ee.com/ *Mighty Tieton Warehouse - https://www.tietonarts.org/events *PAC- Numerica Performing Arts Center https://numericapac.org/about/news/

*Two Rivers Art Gallery-

https://2riversgallery.org/ *Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra- https://wenatcheesymphony.org/ *Punch Projects and Gallery - https://punchprojects.org/ *Call for Entry (CaFE) - https://artist.callforentry.org/calendar.phtml Scott Bailey: Accretions at MAC Gallery