Eric Smith is a local designer and artist we've celebrated since the very first few design features here on Collect! His work is always pushing Spokane out of i...
Mary Ellen Knight is a new transplant to Spokane from Tennessee. Although she obviously isn't new to art, she is new to Spokane so we thought an introduction wa...
Marshall Mclean has been all the buzz in Spokane over the last year and a half since releasing his last record, Glossolalia. He's been praised by media outlets ...
The Spokane International Film Festival begins this coming week and the kick off is tomorrow night with an extra special evening of art, film and music. Local d...
2014 was an exceptional year for the indie design world in Spokane. Young artists are gaining more confidence, branching out on their own, establishing a uniq...
The holidays can come to some people's chagrin, especially music snobs. That Amy Grant Christmas album of your childhood is still nostalgic but sometimes we nee...
For December we get to enjoy this lovely piece by Vanessa Swenson. She's a young designer building her freelance career here in Spokane. Her style is organic, l...
Local folk band, Cold Mountain Yeti is prepping to record their first album. They've already hit their goal on kickstarter but I thought we could share in case ...
Part of the buzz around the literary scene is built upon the fact that we have an amazing literary journal. I wrote a bit about the infrastructure that is so st...
Local rock band, Lavoy just release a new music video for their song, "Here Comes the Night". It's an anthemic tune perfectly paired in this video with the ...
The past couple months have brought a bunch of new tunes and even new acts to the local music scene. Seeing bands move forward, take steps and put themselves ou...
Vanessa Swenson is a young designer who has relocated back to Spokane after studying design and art history at Montana State University. Her style is organic, a...
The Collect Secret Shows have taken many forms. A rooftop artist space downtown, a living room and an unfinished hallway. Usually we take a little more effort t...
Here's our second song with Ping League! These guys are awesome and undeniably fun. Catch them this Thursday at The Bartlett or on Halloween at Mootsy's.
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A couple weeks ago we crashed the scene of Terrain to set up a Collect Session with local rock band, Pine League. Up to this point we have mostly done acoustic ...
The 7th year of Terrain. It's crazy to see that number...SEVEN. As you probably know, Terrain was hosted in it's (soon to be) permanent home this year. I closed...
Dry and Dusty is a local old-time sister duo. If you aren't familiar with the term "old time", it's a genre of North American folk music with roots pointing to ...
Tomorrow night we are premiering 7 new videos! 4 Collect Sessions and 3 from the last Secret Show. Thanks so much to Sean Finley, the Spokane Film Project, Ben ...
In case you are new to the Flickr or Instagram Roundups, let me explain.
Spokane is awesome. Part of what makes it awesome is watching the seasons turn year...
I spend a lot of time thinking about what factors contribute to a thriving arts community. Creativity, talent, venues, infrastructure, funding, community suppor...
When a couple of our favorite bands had a gap in their performance schedules and The Bartlett had a weekend day open...we connected the dots for the fourth inst...
Karli is a born and raised Spokanite. She does graphic design, illustration and custom lettering full time, runs The Bartlett with her husband Caleb and loves writing about all the awesome things happening in Spokane here on Collect. In her very minimal free time she likes to bake desserts and garden.
