Lauren is a recent graduate of North Idaho College with a great instinct for illustration, a strong collection of local Addy awards under her belt and a keen ey...
Summer is in full swing and signs are coming on strong, especially this week. Here's what you can expect on a summer weekend in Spokane.
1. Multiple live a...
The yearly literary festival run by EWU starts today! Get Lit! is a fantastic celebration of literary arts that involves so many different approaches, events an...
April is one of my favorite month's in Spokane. The falls are brimming, sudsy and thunderous. I wandered through Huntington Park and decided that I needed to do...
If you don't follow David Waters aka Loose Germs on facebook you are missing out. He's been posting a ton of awesome work lately. Sketches, experiments and new ...
Local arts enthusiast and general Spokane-fan-boy Derrick Oliver started a clever blog several months ago with short letters written to his "future wife". Along...
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...
The Spokane International Film Festival is now in full swing, having kicked off last Saturday night with the first installment of the Posterize show. In case yo...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
What is the best part of October? Probably Halloween. Local artist Aaron Abolofia has done a fantastic job with this months wallpaper, embodying all the greatne...
The buzz is thick over Spokane's favorite yearly arts event, Terrain. In it's 7th year now, Terrain will be opening the doors for the first time of their future...
I think we are all still in awe of how awesome this show turned out! It was cool to see some national acknowledgement of the talent as well from Dribbble.com. A...
You've been hearing quite a bit about Bartfest here on Collect. We've been highlighting some of the headlining bands performing the festival and are really exci...
Several months ago I went to Boise and was inspired to write a little about the stark contrast I was faced with between the vibrant, fresh public art there comp...
Spokane is full of amazing designers, specifically graphic designers, illustrators and letterers. Something I probably don't need to tell you since you are read...
Bazaar is coming up real quick on June 21st. The location has been moved from the old Wonderbread Factory to right downtown on Main and Wall. This is an amazing...
It's that special time of year! The Spokane Falls Community College Graphic Design Program (my alma mater) struts their stuff before launching a new group of ta...
