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A monthly publication by NCW Arts Alliance and The Comet

Publisher: Ron Evans Contributors: Jamie Howell, Meg Sanders NCW Arts - Elevating the Arts in North Central Washington

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Licensed Mental Health Counselor Michelle Hayes opens new art therapy studio in downtown Wenatchee. Story on pg. 3

NCW ARTS ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES MUSICBOX FUNDRAISER FOR FIRST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

All-ages celebration will feature three stages and nearly a dozen bands for live music, poetry, visual art and performances by artists including Chumbawamba co-founder Danbert Nobacon and Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield.

By Jamie Howell

NCW Arts Alliance is also seeking volunteers and event sponsors. Those interested in helping bring MusicBox to life may email events@NCWArts.org or visit the event website.

he North Central Washington Arts Alliance will present MusicBox, a new all-ages fundraising event, on Friday, October 2, 2026, in conjunction with the Wenatchee First Fridays Arts Walk. Beginning at 3 p.m. at Warehouse 3 Design Centre in downtown Wenatchee, MusicBox will bring together musicians, poets, visual artists and other regional creatives for an energetic celebration of North Central Washington’s arts community. Proceeds from the event will support NCW Arts Alliance programs and its work to strengthen, connect and champion the arts throughout the region. Among the featured performers is Danbert Nobacon, a founding member and vocalist of the British band Chumbawamba, best known for the international hit “Tubthumping.” Now based in Twisp, Wash., Nobacon continues to create politically charged, genre-crossing music, writing and performance rooted in the irreverent spirit of punk. MusicBox will also feature a reading by Derek Sheffield, Washington’s eighth State Poet Laureate. A Wenatchee Valley resident, Sheffield is an award-winning poet,

Chumbawamba’s Danbert Nobacon will be one of many performers at MusicBox this Friday at Warehouse 3 in Wenatchee.

editor, and professor whose work explores the natural world, community and the connections between people and place. The festival will offer three stages of live music and spoken word. The outdoor KOHO 101.1 Stage will feature SumGuy, Defiant, Fallen Oaks, Danbert Nobacon and Timely Tragedy. The Sleeping Lady Foundation Indoor Stage will showcase Wide Eyes, Mike Frazier, Deep Green Sea and Valley Boyz. Poetry performances will include Sheffield, Josey Meats, Holly Thorpe, Susan Blair and Drewbear, aka Andrew Simpson.

Guests can also enjoy visual art, food and beverages, a Spin Room and a special members’ lounge featuring performances from The Welter Brothers and Brian Ohme. The event is open to all ages. MusicBox builds on the success of NCW Arts Alliance’s ArtBox event, expanding the concept to embrace live music, poetry and performance while raising funds for the nonprofit organization’s regional arts programs. Tickets and more information are available online at NCWA.org/musicbox.

Event at a Glance What: MusicBox, an all-ages fundraiser for NCW Arts Alliance When: Friday, October 2, 2026, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Where: Warehouse 3 Design Centre, Wenatchee; entrance at 218 S. Columbia St. Tickets and information: NCWArts.org/musicbox Volunteer and sponsorship inquiries: director@NCWArts.org About North Central Washington Arts Alliance: NCW Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering NCW creatives by connecting them to opportunities, communities and each other. Through advocacy, promotion, partnerships and public events, NCW Arts helps build a thriving cultural ecosystem that enriches every community in North Central Washington.

WHEN ART BECOMES THERAPY

Michelle Hayes talks art therapy, creative wellness and opening Liminal Art Therapy in downtown Wenatchee

Puppets, markers, paints and collage materials are some of the tools of the trade at Liminal Art Therapy.

aking art can feel good. It can clear your head, help you work through some heavy shit or give you a way to say something you can’t quite put into words. But when does making art actually become art therapy? ArtBeat talked with Michelle Hayes of Liminal Art Therapy about what art therapy is, what it isn’t and what she’s bringing to downtown Wenatchee. Hayes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor in the state of Washington. She graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School with a degree in Art Therapy and has been practicing in the field for almost 20 years. Art-making has been an integral part of her work and experience with clients. Art has been a bridge that has overcome cultural and communication difficulties and barriers. It’s been a unique and valuable mirror for reflection and seeing different perspectives. First, what actually is art therapy? Art therapy is a profession that uses art in different ways. There’s the train of thought where, you know, making art is therapeutic in and of itself, and there’s a lot of research in the neuro arts that sup-

ports that, shows exactly what happens inside of our brains when we’re making art and why it’s good for us. And then we also use art as a form of communication, and a lot of unconscious material will sort of make itself conscious through the art-making process. We would use that more in doing trauma work as a form of communication in therapy with kids or people who have communication difficulties. Art has been a bridge when I’ve worked with clients who are monolingual Spanish-speaking, because I am not bilingual, right? And a lot gets lost in translation when you’re using an interpreter. But the art is—it’s a universal language. When someone comes to you for art therapy, what does that look like? Do you get them drawing something and just analyzing that, or do you try to get them to communicate through art? Usually, when I’m going over my counselor disclosure and I’m talking about my education and background in art therapy, art is an invitation. It’s never an expectation or something that you have to do, but it’s available if you want to go there. Sometimes it’s helpful with this. It can

be more helpful to talk about your feelings, to look at them differently with different perspectives. Sometimes it’s easier to communicate in a picture than it is with words, and then typically there are art therapy assessments that we can do. So you look at their art and try to see what? I’m not interpreting their imagery so much as I’m just taking in information. That’s all, and then asking questions. Is the industry or the science looking at what people draw as a way to analyze people, or is it more of express yourself, get what’s inside of you out through art? To some degree. There are indicators to look for. There are common things we see in drawings for children who’ve been abused. There are common indicators of depression. There are common indicators of anxiety and bipolar disorder. I’m not going to look at this drawing and say, “Oh, you have bipolar disorder.” I’m also looking at what you’re doing while you’re making the drawings. How do you mean? Your behavior. How are you approaching it? It’s learning about you. Are you an organized person who needs structure? How do you structure yourself?

Are you all over the place? How do you work through things? Do you do well with open-ended questions? How should I go about working with you? And I’m kind of paying attention to those behaviors. What’s your attention span? If you’re 10 years old and you have a five-minute attention span, and then you’re bouncing on the couch, right? Things like that. So it’s more just observing and asking. Symbols and colors are very culturally specific, and so I can interpret anything a certain way. It doesn’t mean that’s what you meant when you drew it. I think about how so many famous serial killers start out by drawing the craziest shit, but kids draw crazy shit. They often do. Is it all ages? Yeah, all ages. How do you handle that differently from a child to an adult concerning art therapy? I tend to do assessments more with kids because you tend to work a lot continued on pg. 6

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CURIOUS CREATURES BY LOUISE GARRIE @ARTWORX ARTWORX is premiering works by a mysterious artist that’s new to the area. Here’s what ARTWORX says about the show: “Join us for an exhibition of masked, sculptural beings by artist Louise Garrie, work that moves at 16the threshold of sculpture, assemblage, ritual, and myth. Little is known of Garrie herself. She moves through this realm as one of her own masked creatures, allowing the work to exist

beyond biography, expectation, or explanation. She hopes these beings will beckon others to look beneath their own masks and create from whatever stirs there, for she believes that, when darkness gathers, art is how we summon the light.” Curious Creatures premieres Friday, October 2 with an opening reception 5-8pm, ARTWORX, 15 Yakima St. in Wenatchee.

continued from page 3 with behavior, and I need to see things like attention span, ability to focus. Just a lot of information about behavior becomes apparent in those drawings. I rarely do them with adults. Making art helps regulate the nervous system and provides a mediator when working through trauma and difficult life experiences and allows people to externalize difficult experiences and emotions. But making art and art therapy aren’t necessarily the same thing. This comes up a lot. The notion of something that’s therapeutic versus therapy, like actual therapy.

they can connect with other people, where they can learn something about themselves, where they can access tools that they already have that they maybe aren’t aware of or aren’t using to the full capacity. Creative Arts workshops will offer general, structured art-making processes or projects. More intentional art therapy workshops may center around specific themes such as burnout and self-care, parenting stress, or grief. These can also be designed for a specific group or need and can be facilitated outside of the studio. Art materials are included with all workshops and fees will vary depending on the type of group, type of supplies used and time involved. One of the things that we’re going to be doing is just open studio community art making. Hopefully on the First Friday of every month, and this First Friday will be the first one where anybody—kids, adults, whoever—can drop in, make art. And that’s all free. If you want to donate, any of those donations would go towards art supplies for the future ‘free stuff.’ But it’s not an expectation. So really, give people an opportunity to just make art, have some prompts, have some stuff there, an opportunity to display it if they want to.

Right. Making art is always therapeutic. So is taking a hot bath. But there’s no licensing involved. There’s no speciﬁc training. Right. I’m gonna get to know my person and I’m gonna use the art as a therapeutic agent. The materials all have different properties. What you bring in is important in therapy, just as in the making art. If you bring in the wrong material, it can send things in the wrong direction. So making art is always good. I love everything that everybody’s doing. I also know that there are therapists who are saying that they’re doing art therapy, and they Someone could just show up, draw have zero training. And what they’re doa thing and leave it. There’s no expecing is actually not art therapy. tation. You’re not signing up to be inSome people get loosey-goosey with volved with anything? Nope. For those events you can just the terminology. I think the licensure is a big piece. And show up. And we’re going to have some the credentialing, and that’s some of the information around the studio: What is art information we’re going to have in the therapy? What is creative arts therapy? studio and be talking about. I’m under What is sand tray therapy? But then there’s also going to be grief supervision right now because I waited forever to get my art therapy licensure workshops or workshops for self-care and burnout, or workshops for maybe parenttogether. Liminal Art and Psychotherapy LLC, or ing, for the more therapeutically targeted. During the First Friday Art Walk, LimLiminal Art Therapy, is a counseling practice primarily utilizing an open art studio inal Art Therapy will collaborate with approach to wellness. It’s “art as therapy” Creative HeART Counseling, inviting workshops and events invite individuals individuals into their shared studio space into art-making and creative processes to create art and learn more about art and that promote social belonging and provide expressive arts therapies. Anyone who accessible tools for health and well-being. makes art will have the opportunity for The studio serves as a creative and their art to be shown in the studio during therapeutic space where individuals can the next First Friday Art Walk. experiment, observe, discover and make meaning from their experiences. The fo- Limninal HeART Studio cus is not on artistic skill or producing Friday, October 2, 4–8 PM a finished product, but on the process of 8 Orondo Avenue, Suite D creating and the things you learn as you move through that process. Ultimately I want to create a space where people can come and create, where

ARTIST EDITION

Building your Digital Presence Presenter: Becca Freimuth

This four-session workshop series, brought to you by NCW Tech Alliance and NCW Arts, will guide artists of all stripes to strengthen how they present online, from being easier to find and guiding potential customers toward action to staying visible and connected.

WHERE: Pybus Board Room • 3 N. Worthen St. • Wenatchee COST: $40 SESSION 1 GET FOUND

SESSION 2 ENGAGE VISITORS

Take a closer look at how people see and discover you online, and identify simple ways to make your work easier to find.

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Build a manageable approach to sharing your work and story without the pressure of constant content creation.

Explore simple ways to stay connected with your audience, then build a realistic monthly habit that brings together what you’ve learned throughout the series.

Thursday, Oct. 29 • 4:30–6:30 PM

Thursday, Nov. 5 • 4:30–6:30 PM

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POEM OF THE MONTH October Paul English, Richland October crawls in through the window and leaves it open behind him. The trees begin undressing. The sun starts going home early. Something dead scratches inside the wall but only when the furnace stops. We put skeletons on the porch to convince ourselves we invited them. At night, every empty field becomes an ocean. Every scarecrow turns its head just after you pass. The moon looks sick tonight. The corn whispers among itself. There are footprints in the frost that stop halfway across the yard. This is the season when the dead feel close enough to smell our hair. When the dark gets hungry earlier and every childhood nightmare remembers where you live. So light the candles. Lock the doors. Pretend the scratching is only mice. Pretend October doesn’t know your name.

RUBY KOSKI @LEMOLO CAFE & DELI Young, local artist Ruby Koski will show her watercolors of local fauna at Lemolo Cafe and Deli for the month of October. Help her celebrate her 18th birthday and

stop on down to see her new work from the last year. Friday, Oct. 2, 3-6 pm. Lemolo Cafe & Deli 114 N Wenatchee Ave

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