NOVEMBER 2023 ARTBEAT

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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE NCW ARTS ALLIANCE

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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MESS

BY MEG KAPPLER

NCW ARTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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on’t you love it when things work out? I sure do. As a born pessimist, I have intentionally inched my way over the years to being more of a cautious optimist, and I much prefer the view from here.

Part of what has enabled me to make that shift is the privilege I have experienced in repeated access to creative outlets. One of my art mentors always said, “If you don’t hate it halfway through, you’re not doing it right.”

I suppose one could take that several ways, but for me it’s a reminder to turn off my inner critic, get messy and throw myself into the work with a fair amount of abandon. When I meet despair in the middle of the mess, all I can say is that

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by trusting the process I’ll often find a transformational spark that shifts the whole terrifying thing into new and beautiful territory.

Does this personal practice translate into an organizational process? I sure think so, but I also think it takes a village to birth and nurture art babies (and organizations) long enough for them to transform and become what they were meant to be. Thankfully, I’ve found the board of directors of the NCW Arts Alliance to be solid, willing and consistent villagers. So, I guess all of this has just been a preamble to this heartfelt thank-you note to the board, just in time for Thanksgiving!

To see and participate in the fruits of our labor for 2023, head on over to our website (ncwarts.org) and check out the new Artist Index. This is our most recent offering to the community to increase access to creative outlets and resources for more people. It is growing daily and features profiles from local comedians, artists, performers, arts organizations, jewelers, musicians and more!

If you happen to be in the middle of a messy mess, I see you. And hopefully this reminder of the supportive, creative arts community we have all around us will help you take that next step in your process — whatever that might be, wherever it might lead.

text. Howell, an NCW Arts board member, explores how the fast-evolving technology “AI’s Plein Aire Self-Portrait,” a digital will or won’t affect the Arts in his monthly creation by Jamie Howell via Mid-Jour- ArtBiz column on Page 3 of this issue. ney, an app for generating AI images from

MULTICULTURAL DANCE AND MUSIC

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ake a step into the rich cultural traditions of Latin America when Leavenworth’s Icicle Creek Center for the Arts hosts two south-of-the-border celebrations in early November.

Festival Día de Los Muertos will kick off at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, with free churros and face painting followed at 3 p.m. by a free showing of the animated Pixar film “Coco.”

At 5 p.m., a Katrina Parade and Ofrenda will be held at the arts center’s Meadow Stage. The parade celebrates La Katrina, a Mexican muse usually portrayed as a skeleton. An ofrenda is a temporary altar honoring loved ones who have passed away.

At 7 p.m. in the Snowy Owl Theater, the Wenatchee-based Mexican folklorico company Danzas Multiculturales will present an evening of high-energy dance.

They’ll be accompanied by Mariachi Real de Mexico, an ensemble from Yakima.

Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students.

At 9:30 p.m., a Multiculturales Dance Concert will feature Mariachi Real de Mexico. The dance is free with a Danzas Multiculturales ticket or $10 at the door.

At 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10, the Latin ensemble Cascada de Flores will present a variety of voice, string and percussion numbers that are specifically designed for children aged 0 to 5 years old. The Bay Area group, which has recorded five albums, has also scored music for film, theater and dance performances. Tickets are $10 for adults and free for children.

Learn more about these special celebrations at icicle.org.

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WHY ART WILL SURVIVE AI

The author as the Hulk writing this column while The Comet publisher Ron Evans, in the background, encourages him to meet his deadline, according to AI (created via Mid-Journey).

By Jamie Howell

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hen I was a kid, the teachers were up in arms over an insidious threat to learning, a new thing called a computer. It’ll be nothing but cheaters taking shortcuts from here on out, they moaned. We kids would simply turn off our brains and turn on our machines.

Cut to today, when most schools shove a computer into your child’s mitts the day they cross the threshold. Our Macs and PCs, tablets and smartphones, have become so integral to classroom learning that you’re considered disadvantaged if you don’t have one.

Back when I started my video production company we were among the first in the Wenatchee Valley to adopt a digital-only approach. The old-school purists barked unhappily. No film to develop and splice?

No videotapes to duplicate, fast-forward and rewind? It’s not even real film-making.

Wrong again.

The uproar and outright fear blossoming around AI today vibrates with a delicious déjà vu.

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I agree, there’s a sinister element given the fact that, this time around, we don’t fully understand what’s actually happening under the hood of this new machine of ours. But it’s no death knell for true creativity, for “real” Art. Those kids who “cheated” on their math homework by running it through their computers ultimately wound up learning entirely new skillsets. They became coders and IT specialists. I dropped my typewriter ribbons and white-out in favor of, gasp, a word processor and a dot-matrix printer.

My writing did not suffer.

Already, you can find job listings for AI “prompt architects” that pay hundreds of thousands a year. AI, too, will force us to learn new skillsets.

True, you may not want to learn any new skillsets. You may prefer to paint just like the old masters did it. (Although, I’m willing to bet you’d still rather hop on Amazon and order a fresh tube of Cobalt Blue than go mine yourself some lapis lazuli to grind by hand.)

ChatGPT is making the writers twitchy.

Mid-Journey gets the side-eye from illus2. Named the Photo House Theater when it was built in 1914, this often-updated building on Chelan’s main street still attracts moviegoers with its big screen and comfy seats.

Robot plein air self-portrait (created via Mid-Journey.)

trators. Music generators, voice replicators, deep-fake videos — they’re here to steal our jobs and rot our minds!

Of course, you don’t have to pick up a new tool just because it shows up in the toolbox. But I can guarantee that, as you hunker down in protest, millions upon millions more are picking these tools up, tossing ‘em around and finding out what they’re good for and what they’re not.

The key for creatives is to use AI artistically, to augment your creativity, not replace it. Without a human interface, AI is exactly what it sounds like — artificial, not real intelligence. You can feel it in the soulless, often idiotic, even dishonest outputs it generates. It takes a human on the other side to really turn it into something worthwhile.

AI, used correctly, is not the artist, but the digital muse. Just as music survived Napster, literature will survive ChatGPT, Art will survive AI. New eras just keep coming. Why not embrace them on their way through?

TECH ALLIANCE AND NCW ARTS TO HOST ‘ART & AI’ DISCUSSION The NCW Tech Alliance in partnership with NCW Arts will explore the influence of artificial intelligence in design, marketing and other creative fields when they host a panel discussion on the fast-evolving technology.

“Entrepreneurial Panel: Art and AI” will run from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 14, at Pybus Public Market in Wenatchee. Admission is $10 for members of the Tech Alliance and NCW Arts and $25 for non-members.

Get tickets at Eventbrite.com.

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THE ART OF CRAFTING COCKTAILS AND CONNECTIONS

Bartender Ben Ernst mixes cocktails at the Epoch Game Lounge in Wenatchee.

BY MEG KAPPLER I love a great conversation, and I love it even more when it comes with a great cocktail. Ben Ernst, bartender extraordinaire at Epoch Game Lounge in Wenatchee, brought both when I interviewed him about the art of his craft. We covered so much turf in 40 minutes — history, colonialism, prohibition, the development of cocktail culture, performance, escapism — and, of course, garnishes!

Ernst brings depth of thought and intention to his work, just like any artist worth their salt-rim would do. Delightfully, I found through our discussion that at the heart of the magic he creates with an insanely wide variety of spirits and ingredients is a deep understanding of place, context and human connection.

“Everyone deserves a third place of belonging regardless of background,” says Ernst. “Bars can be that. In pre-prohibition they were community meeting places — politics were discussed, unions were formed. I’m building on the inclusive community space and environment created here by [Epoch owners] Andy and Leeah with the drinks I create.”

How does he do this? Like all great bartenders, he figures out what type of experience will best serve the guests in a particular establishment and plays to that strength. For Ernst, the common thread between cocktails and the gaming atmo-

sphere offered at Epoch is escapism. “They can make their personal choices based on the binary between alcoholic and non-alare both meant to transport the guest some- the listed alcohol content. Cheers to that! coholic drinks, is Saturday, Nov. 11, from where else. My job in this space is to create Ernst teaches monthly cocktail classes, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Epoch, 16 South that escapism and understand the construct and the next one, focused on dismantling Wenatchee Avenue. behind that.” This idea ties into the educational component of bartending as well.

“From my perspective it’s really about an appreciation and celebration of alcohol,” he said. “If we stop appreciating it, we can start to abuse it.” To that end, Ernst educated me on some of the basics of bartending, the cocktail codex, and how he creates more nuanced experiences for guests rather than just slinging whiskey into a glass.

“Tying into the Epoch concept of video games and pop culture with the cocktails NOVEMBER is really powerful in evoking nostalgia.”

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NCW ARTISTS RECEIVE GAP GRANTS C

ongratulations to the 2023 Fall GAP recipients! A total of $97,500 will be directly invested in 65 Washington State artists through unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 each. This year’s recipients, selected by a panel of five working artists, represent the most geographically diverse GAP cohort in the award’s 34year history. Ten of the grantees live and work in Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties: Scott Bailey, visual, Douglas County Susan Blair, literary, Chelan County

Carolyn Rensel and Rachel Powers rehearse a shared secret as Jane Austen’s Bennett sisters.

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ane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” hits the Snowy Owl Theater stage in Leavenworth this month, but in a form you’ve probably never imagined.

“The play is funny,” director Phil Lacey said of playwright Kate Hamill’s re-creation of the 19th century romantic novel.

“It isn’t a stuffy, boring classic to read in English class, or a six-hour BBC movie that your girlfriend makes you sit through.

The play is fast, funny, irreverent, and delightful.”

With degrees and deep background in nonprofit arts administration (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) as well as theater performance (Whitworth University, Spokane), Lacey, also the Executive Director of Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, brings years of expertise to this project.

Lacey has lived in Wenatchee since 2018 and was connected with Leavenworth Summer Theater for almost twenty years, first as an actor and later as a stage director and its executive director. The first show Lacey directed for LST was “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2011, and since then he’s worked in both Chicago and Seattle, where he was also managing artistic director of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Lacey chose the small cast for this Icicle Creek production for their ability to do both drama and comedy. (“It helped,” he said, “if they love the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ story.”) Christopher Puckett, Diana Trotter, Terry Boyd, Katie Dreessen and Marina Pierce are from the Seattle area.

And Caroline Rensel, Rachel Powers, Marcus Wolf, John Wagner and Skyler Cuthill are all local actors.

New York-based Hamill’s 20 plays have been produced internationally and

throughout the United States, and she was one of the most-produced playwrights in this country from 2017 to 2020. She’s known for innovative, contemporary stage adaptations, with a feminist bent, of classic novels including “Sense and Sensibility,” “Vanity Fair,” “Little Women,” “Emma,” “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson” and “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy.”

Not surprisingly, the script provided by Hamill encourages creative freedom, and Lacey said the production staff had fun designing unique contrasting elements. Authentic looking 1810 Regency furnishings and decor allow magical 3-second scene changes. Costumes are also period (cravats, boots, top hats, muted empire waist dresses) but with modern pops of vivid color. Dance and underscore tunes come from recognizable but contemporized classical music, and bright colored projections help set the scene.

“Pride & Prejudice” for a new era explores, as did Austen’s tale, the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. However, Lacey said, “Kate Hamill did a wonderful job of distilling the story down into a play that hits all the major moments of the book in less than two hours. She made it more of a comedy – more jokes, more ridiculous situations—and she has some of the actors playing two different characters. But she kept the beautiful love stories.”

You can see “Pride & Prejudice” at the Snowy Owl Theater, Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, 7409 Icicle Road, Leavenworth. The play opens Friday, Nov. 17, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 26. Tickets are $15 to $35 dollars at icicle.org.

Lindsey Bloomfield, visual, Chelan County

Susan Donahue, visual, Okanogan County Carly Feddersen, visual, Chelan County Perri Howard, visual, Okanogan County Siri Rose, visual, Chelan County Erin Meehan, literary, Okanogan County Shaila Tenorio, visual, Okanogan County For more information about these artists and Artist Trust, visit artisttrust.org/news-and-stories.

Lindsay Breidenthal, visual, Chelan County

THE ENTIAT VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESENTS:

d e t n E a h ntiat c n E 33rd Annual Holiday Bazaar saturday November 18th 9am-3pm Local Artisans & vendors, a student art premiere, book & Yarn sale, Food & Drinks, festive Music & much More At the Entiat School!

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After the Bazaar, join us for the 3rd Annual Light Up the Park Entiat City Park at Dusk! market@entiatchamber.org

OPPORTUNITIES: PENS NEW POETRY COLLECTION SUSAN BLAIR

STENCIL WORKSHOP

Learn from Wenatchee artist Lindsay Breidenthal how to cut and use stencils to repeat shapes in paintings, decorative paper, murals, floors and illustrations, and how to mask and paint a variety of surfaces for distinctive effects. The class will meet in the Makerspace at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Class size is limited to 18, and the cost is $65 (or $45 for WVMCC members). For required pre-registration go to wenatcheevalleymuseum.org.

MISSION MARKET SEEKS MORE MAKERS

Artists, artisans and craftspeople gather monthly to sell their wares at Cashmere’s popup market, and holiday season spots are available for new local vendors. Find the market at the Mission District, part of a 1930s pear packing facility near the railroad tracks that was repurposed a dozen years ago and now bustles again with nine tenants in various offices, studios and retail establishments.

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enatchee author Susan Blair’s full-length poetry collection, “A Howling,” has just been published by Press 53 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.

“Blair’s wonderfully sensual poems teem with animals and insects who soothe and torment, whose lives and deaths complement and foreshadow

joys and sorrows, as the speaker copes with the decline and loss of loved ones,” says April Ossmann, author of the poetry collection “Event Boundaries.”

To order copies of Blair’s book, go to press53.com or contact the poet herself at sfblair61@gmail.com.

WVC INSTRUCTORS TO SHOW

THEIR ART AT MAC GALLERY

Mission Market is at 207 Mission Avenue in Cashmere and is open evenings on Saturday, Nov. 11 and Saturday, Dec. 16 from 4 to 8 p.m. Contact missionmarketave@gmail.com or (Instagram) @missiondistrictmarket with questions or to sign up for space.

NCW’S LOUDEST OPEN MIC

Writing is not a silent sport at Lit Mic, a lively Leavenworth writers event that regularly welcomes original poetry, essays, excerpts, journaling, short stories, first drafts and other forms of original literary achievement. Organizer Holly Thorpe says it’s for writers of all types and stripes, and she encourages audiences to, “whistle, clap, cheer – show these writers some love.” Space is limited; sign up on arrival for a reading spot.

The next Lit Mic is Tuesday, Nov. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bushel and Bee Taproom, 900 Front Street, Unit C, Leavenworth. Questions? Contact Holly Thorpe at starkncw@gmail.com.

CONFLUENCE GALLERY CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Confluence Gallery, 104 South Glover Street in Twisp, is seeking artwork for its upcoming “Dark Skies” exhibit. The website poses these thematic questions, among others: “What about the night sky enchants us, fills us with wonder? How does darkness inspire mystery through what it reveals, and what it cloaks?” Artists may submit up to three pieces of original work on that theme in any size and medium.

Digital samples and an intent to submit are due by Wednesday, Dec. 13. For more details see confluencegallery.org, email exhibits@confluencegallery.org (with “Dark Skies” in the subject line) or call (509) 997-2787.

PHOTOJOURNALIST POSITION

“Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em,” a digital drawing by WVC instructor Arius Elvikis.

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ix instructors in Wenatchee Valley College’s art department will show their latest works when the 2023 WVC Art Faculty exhibition opens Nov. 1. The group exhibition includes works by faculty members Ruth Allan, Ellen Bruex, Natalie Dotzauer, Arius Elvikis, Linda Lyons and Nik Penny.

As part of the Wenatchee First Fridays Arts Walk, the show will kick off with an artist reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in the gallery lobby. The show runs through Dec. 22.

For more info, go to wvc.edu/academics/art/macgallery.html.

The Wenatchee World is seeking a photographer whose curiosity drives them to document and highlight the lives of people living in North Central Washington. Expect to produce twelve display pages weekly for the newspaper; to augment special sections, Business World and Foothills; and to take some evening and weekend assignments.

Education in communications or journalism and direct experience in photojournalism is required. Interested photographers should send a cover letter, resume and link to portfolio to the Wenatchee World’s Managing Editor Nancy Niles: niles@wenatcheeworld.com

SEE MORE OPPORTUNITIES AT NCWARTS.ORG QUIZ: R.U. ARTSMART ANSWERS

1. Chelan County Expo Center 2. Ruby Theater 3. Wenatchee High School 4.

Wally’s House of Booze 5. Snowy Owl Theater at ICCA 6. Confluence Gallery