MARCH 2023 ARTBEAT

ARTBEAT

FIRST FRIDAYS ARTS WALK MAP INCLUDED

NCW ARTIST INDEX IN DEVELOPMENT PRE-REGISTER NOW!

searchable index will be housed on our new website later this spring and will be an incredibly powerful tool for connecting all kinds of artists - to one another, to opportunities to showcase your work, to link to your professional websites and to generally heighten public awareness around all of our local creatives.

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: “We’re Not Lost: The Last Ride of the Show Ponies”

By Megan Kappler

Over the past year, NCW Arts has hosted a number of community forums and informal gatherings, and when you showed up to share your hopes and dreams, we took notes! The call is loud and clear that artists and creatives in our region want and need an informational hub to help connect them with one another; to opportunities for collaborations, grants, projects, classes; and to the NCW community at large.

So, we are excited to be able to share the good news! We are now accepting pre-registration for artists and creatives in the NCW region to be included in the new Regional NCW Artist Index! This

Eventually, we will launch a membership opportunity with lots of fun perks, but for now, it couldn’t be easier to let us know you are interested. Just go to our home page at ncwarts.org and complete a simple, secure, Google form with some basic information and, voila! We will be in touch in the coming months as we test out the system and release our new and improved website with the NCW Artist Index in full swing.

In the meantime, be sure to check our current website frequently, not only for the regional events calendar, but also for opportunities like auditions, job openings, funding resources, notice of studio spaces for lease, and much more. No need to harbor that FOMO (fear of missing out) energy any longer. NCW Arts is here to help keep you connected! Reach out to us anytime by emailing arts@ncwarts.org!

FEATURED OPPORTUNITY ARTSWA CREATIVE PROJECT GRANT DUE MARCH

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You’ve got until March 15 to throw your hat in for ArtsWA’s 2024 Creative Project Grant. This is a $2,000 to $8,000 grant designed to help small to midsized groups provide communal arts and cultural experiences in Washington State. What’s unusual about this grant is that organizations do not need to have an arts-focused mission to apply.

More information can be found at arts.wa.gov/gto-creative-project-grant/

The second local documentary release this year! This time it’s North Forty Productions with a moving look at the life cycle of Americana indie band, The Show Ponies, as they embark on a final tour to say goodbye to their fans and to each other after a 7-year run that generated three albums and millions of listens.

Animations in the film were created by local artists Lindsay Breidenthal and Nathan Getzin. The documentary premieres in Wenatchee at the Numerica Performing Arts Center on Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m.

Tickets available at numericapac.org

ARTEMIDORUS: A Pink Floyd Experience

Bring on the lasers! NCW’s Pink Floydloving Artemidorus celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of “Dark Side of the Moon” with a performance of the album in its entirety (as well as every tune from “Wish You Were Here”) at the Numerica Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee on Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m.

They’ll be joined by special guest, singer Durga McBroom, who toured and recorded with Pink Floyd for two decades. Tickets available at numericapac.org.

TaikoProject’s powerful drumming unites ancient Japanese tradition with 21st century American innovation to create a riot of movement and thundering rhythm. Coming to Icicle Creek Center for the Arts

in Leavenworth for two shows, Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 5, at 2 p.m. Tickets and more information available at icicle.org

THE WHEEL TURNS FOR CERAMICIST RUTH ALLAN IN NEW RETROSPECTIVE AT THE MAC GALLERY

BY mike irwin

artist’s statement for the show. “I strive to create artwork that inspires the viewer.”

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Allan’s life in art and ceramics is on full display this March in a comprehensive exhibit that includes a retrospective of her techniques, materials and creative thinking.

Dozens of decorative porcelain vessels will fill Wenatchee Valley College’s Music & Art Center (MAC) gallery through March 23. The free exhibit — Ruth E. Allan: Looking Forward, Reaching Back — is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Allan will present a slide lecture on her work at 4 p.m., Friday, March 3, in the MAC Grove Recital Hall, followed by a First Fridays Arts Walk reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

“For me, working in art has been a main focus, expression, recreation, means of contributing to the community and enriching my family,” writes Allan in her

The collection demonstrates decades of development of her signature ceramic techniques — saggar and Raku kilnfiring methods — along with glazing and carving artistry that have produced her one-of-a-kind masterworks.

A Washington State native, Allan grew up on a Puget Sound farm where her love of nature and an early devotion to the arts nourished a passion for drawing, painting, carving and working with clay. She has curated local art exhibits and taught workshops at universities, festivals and potters’ groups. Her works have been featured in publications around the globe.

“Art has been a source of inspiration while raising five children, teaching, creating museum exhibits and working for arts in the community,” says her biography accompanying the exhibit.

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FIRST FRIDAYS MAP!

FIRST FRIDAY AFTER HOURS COMES TO

SADDLE ROCK BREWERY

After making your rounds this Friday, March 3, stop in for a beverage and a bite at the Saddlerock Pub & Brewery in downtown Wenatchee for this month’s First Fridays After Hours. Open and free to all, it’s a chance to gather with artists, art lovers and members of the NCW Arts Alliance over a beer and let the creative conversation flow. First Fridays After Hours runs from 7 to 9 p.m.

FIRST FRIDAYS ARTS MAP

“Looking Forward, Reaching Back,” works from ceramicist Ruth E. Allan. Slide lecture, MAC Grove Recital Hall, 4 p.m.; artist reception, 5-7 p.m.

Cindy Noyd, paintings; Amanda Northwind, handcrafted jewelry; artist reception and cider flights from PearUp, 5-7 p.m.

Allen Gossett, paintings; Glenn Isaacson and Patrick Thompson, piano and bass;

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1. MAC Gallery

2. Visit Wenatchee Visitor Center

3. Two Rivers Art Gallery

5-8 p.m.

4. Salt Creek Apothecary

Anderst, paintings, 12-6 p.m.

5. Pan’s Grotto

Theories Art,” group show, 4-6 p.m.

6. Tumbleweed

Campbell, Lost Highway Silver and Stone, jewelry, 4-7 p.m.

7. Ye Olde Bookshoppe

Walker, local author, booksigning, 4-7 p.m.

8. Wenatchee Valley Museum

High School Art Show, free admission from 4-8 p.m.

9. Pybus Art Alley

Cook Mack and Michelle Knutson, paintings; music from Mike Bills, 5-7 p.m.

10. Wenatchi Wear

Big-Bull Lewis and Rob Lewis, wearable art; direct-to-garment printing demo, 3-6- p.m.

Online map courtesy of the Wenatchee Downtown Association wendowntown.org