As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers, and then the long-awaited summer finally arrives in the Inland Northwest. For some, though, April is.
Book Arts: Tarot/Playing Cards Clamshell Box Learn how to make a clamshell box using your favorite Tarot deck or other set of playing cards with Mel Antuna Hewitt. The techniques taught enables students to make a protective box for any rectangular object. Participants are required to bring their own deck of cards.
Kismet: Writers & Printers Collab Printmaking as an art form is really having its day in the sun — more printmakers keep popping up, and there’s no better home for them than Spokane, a burgeoning mecca of print. In anticipation of the Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Symposium coming to town this fall, Spokane Print & Publishing Center is hosting a fundraiser featuring five printmakers paired with a local literary luminary. Pairings include Carl Richardson and Emma Noyes, Mel Antuna Hewitt and Sharma Shields, and Margot Casstevens and Mark Anderson. Each pair has collaborated to create a limited-edition print portfolio for supporters. The finished portfolio is available at the showcase, as well as online for those who can’t make it to Brick West. There are only 20 portfolios from each available, so get ’em while they’re fresh off the presses!