MAC Calendar of Events
Updated December 31, 2009
Call (509) 456-3931 for additional information or e-mail pr@northwestmuseum.org. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please confirm activities. All events are on the Museum campus at 2316 W. First Avenue, Spokane, Washington unless otherwise noted.
For information about all visual and performing arts events in the greater Spokane area, link onto the Spokane Arts Commission website at http://www.spokanearts.org/.
UPCOMING EVENTS
BeGin!
February 12, 2010, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
A once-a-month after-work party. Friends hook up at the MAC to BeGin the weekend with adult refreshments, music, and exhibit cruising. Entertainment Hot Club of Spokane.
Free Admission. No Host Bar..
Family MACFest: Why a Horse of Course! American Indian Culture and Horse Parades.
February 13, 2010, noon – 3:00 p.m.
Enjoy lively American Indian cultural celebrations at this special MACFest. It’s your last chance to see life-sized horse mannequins dressed in Plateau horse parade regalia in Plateau Celebrations: Cultural Transitions in the Indian Reservation Era, September 26, 2009 – February 13, 2010.
Cost: Special $15.00 family admission. Museum members free.
Sponsored by Spokane Teachers Credit Union
Works from the Heart Contemporary Art Auction
February 20, 2010
at the MAC
Mel McCuddin,
Flying Carpet,
oil on canvas (sold at 2009 WFTH)
This will be the 25th Annual! Since 1985 this popular community auction has benefited the Museum’s art acquisition fund, and this year the support is shared with the MAC’s art education department.
Join us for a lively event with quick draw artists, live music, no-host bar, buffet by Taste Café and Feast Catering, sweets by Madeleine’s Café and Patisserie and an auction with exciting new pieces by local and regional artists.
*Following current auction protocols, the live auction will include a 10% buyers premium added onto each work of art sold during the event.
Saturday, February 20th
Location: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
2316 W. 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA
Pre-auction events begin at 4 p.m.
Live auction at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets $75 by advance reservation only.
Call today! 509-456-3931
Click Here for FLICKR link to Auction items
18th Annual Friendship Dance
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC) and our American Indian Cultural Council would like to announce our 18th Annual Friendship Dance at the Northern Quest Casino's Pend Oreille Pavilion.
This free pow-wow that is open to all guests will highlight the ongoing tribal perspectives that are so important to our local Native communities. The audience will learn first hand through song and dance their commitment to maintaining cultural programming and their sovereignty. More Information »
BeGin!
March 12th, 2010, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
A once-a-month after-work party. Friends hook up at the MAC to BeGin the weekend with adult refreshments, music, and exhibit cruising. Entertainment: Awesome Nice, DJ.
Free Admission. No Host Bar.
Special Exhibition Opening and Lecture The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
March 13, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Glenn Mason, former Director of the Cheney Cowles Museum [now the MAC], and Lawrence Kreisman present an illustrated lecture based upon their exhibition and companion book, The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest. At 4 pm, the program moves into the gallery for an informal walkthrough to highlight research anecdotes and the building of the decorative arts collection at the MAC, in particular the Davenport Collection. This book and exhibit provide the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest and feature selections from the MAC’s permanent collections. MAC features this traveling exhibition from March 13 through June 26, 2010.
Cost: Free with museum admission. Museum members free.
Spring Break Living History Day
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Watch history come alive in this unique family oriented Spring Break event. Participate in historic activities, see history re-enactors and performances. Enjoy activities like period music and dancing, live theater, games, arts, and crafts.
BeGin!
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
A once-a-month after-work party. Friends hook up at the MAC to BeGin the weekend with adult refreshments, music, and exhibit cruising. Entertainment: Hot Club of Spokane.
Free Admission. No Host Bar.
Antique Appraisal Days
Jim Custer Antique Show, Spokane Fair & Expo Center
April 23-25, 2010
With a modest fee “Antique Appraisal Days” appraisers provide a market value estimate for your heirlooms and curiosities. This year the Campbell House Committee of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture teams up with Jim Custer Enterprises for two appraisal days at the popular Custer antique show held at the Spokane Fair & Expo Center April 23-25, 2010. The Custer show is the largest indoor Antique & Collectors Sale of its kind in the Inland Northwest with over 75,000 square feet of merchandise. Over 300 dealers from across the U.S.
Special Exhibition Opening and Lecture
Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries, Aztlán y más allá
May 1, 2010, Time to be announced.
Barbara Loste, a local scholar and instructor at EWS introduces Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, one of this country’s leading Hispanic scholars and art historians. Dr. Ybarra-Frausto will offer a gallery walk-through and overview of Ruben Trejo’s art. The late artist Rubén Trejo was one of our region’s most important and respected artists. His work is represented in nationally acclaimed collections including that of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries, Aztlán y más allá, May 1, through November 15, 2010, surveys over 45 years of the artist's sculpture, mixed media constructions, paintings and drawings. University of Washington Press will publish the exhibition catalog.
Cost: Free with museum admission. Museum members free.
Mother’s Day Walking Tour
May 8-9, 2010
This will be the 21st year the Historic Preservation Committee of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture has presented a Mother’s Day Tour. Designed to celebrate Spokane’s rich historic architecture, past themes and neighborhoods have included Summit Boulevard, the Masonic Temple, Corbin Park, Cannon’s Addition, Sumner and Cliff Avenue, Rockwood Boulevard, East 17th Avenue, Browne’s Addition, Millwood, Altamont Boulevard, Cannon Hill Park, Peaceful Valley, Manito Boulevard, Audubon Park, Downtown lofts, and a driving tour of Kirtland Cutter-designed buildings. The committee and event staff is comprised of volunteers, and the homes on tour are generously opened by their owners.
ArtFest 2010
June 4, 5, 6, 2010
At the Park in Browne's Addition, just west of downtown Spokane
It's our 25th Annual! ArtFest is one of the Northwest’s most respected and dynamic art fairs. Three days of fine music, good food, the large and popular Make-It-Art children’s hands-on art making area, and over 100 fine artists and craftspeople, all in Spokane’s beautiful and historic Coeur d’Alene Park in Browne’s Addition, just two blocks from the museum.
All artists and craftspeople are welcome to apply for ArtFest. Artist Prospectus Download (pdf)
To be added to our mailing list for 2010, contact us at
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
2316 West First Avenue
Spokane, Washington 99201
509-456-3931 or e-mail artfest@northwestmuseum.org
CURRENT EXHIBITS
Art and People: Spokane Art Center and the Great Depression
Through April 10, 2010
During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration put Americans back to work on major projects like Grand Coulee Dam. Roosevelt's programs also created cultural programs like the Spokane Art Center. The museum's significant WPA collection traces the arc of this cultural legacy to resonate with contemporary American themes.
Jumpin' with the Big Bands
Through April 24, 2010
The joint is jumpin' with America's pop music called swing. These groovy tunes locked up the nation in the 1930's and 40's, inspiring performance showmanship and dances like the Lindy Hop. Swing united a mass audience and encouraged integration. New recording and radio technologies transformed swing into a national craze. The era come alive in the gallery through film clips, jazz archive images, microphones and musical instruments.
Plateau Celebrations: Cultural Transitions in the Indian Reservation Era
September 26, 2009 – February 13, 2010
Nespelem Art Colony portrait paintings, horse regalia, clothing, and archival photos illustrate American Indian cultural transitions from the 1930s reservation era. Tourists and spectators traveled to Indian reservations to glimpse a dying way of life. Instead, Plateau Indian celebrations introduced them to the resilience of American Indian identity. [Image courtesy of Nez Perce National Historical Park NEPE-HI-2279] More Information »
Lead Sponsors: DEX; Teck American Incorporated.
Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection
Through July 18, 2010
View the entire Manning American Indian Collection acquired in 1916 as the founding collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. This exhibition explores the legacy of “Victorian” collecting and the period during which Native Americans saw their cultural objects institutionalized in glass cases. The exhibit also offers an alternative and culturally appropriate viewpoint that honors indigenous Plateau life-ways by contextualizing the Manning collection with objects drawn from the now vast and nationally important American Indian collection.
Lead Sponsors: Bonneville Power Administration, Itron, Teck Cominco, Well Fargo Bank, Ballys, DEX.
Spokane Timeline: Personal Voices
Newly refurbished long-term exhibit
Over a century of Spokane history translated into a three-dimensional tapestry of personal stories. Collection treasures tell of family, community and business adventures from fur trade and fire, through aviation and ticker tape. The new centerpiece of the exhibit features BIG TIMBER which explores the history of logging in the Inland Northwest. From lumber camps and “lady loggers” to “river pigs” and railroads, this new Spokane Timeline feature explores multiple facets of a key Inland Northwest industry. Union pins, log brands, caulk boots, mess tent dishes, crosscut saws, and plenty of stories make a lively introduction to an important topic.
Presented By: Moss-Adams LLP. Sponsors: Joel E. Ferris Foundation, DEX.
ONGOING PROGRAMS
Campbell House Tours
Experience “Changing Times” at historic turn-of-the-20th-century Campbell House. Register at the Museum Admissions Desk for 45-minute guided tours, offered hourly from noon to 3 pm, Wednesday through Saturday. Tours start in the carriage house, where an exhibit introduces the Campbell household and community issues. Book school visits 3 weeks in advance at on the school vistis page. Book adult group tours 3 weeks in advance by calling the Museum Admissions Desk at 509-363-5355.
The house will be decorated for the holidays from November 27, 2009 through January 2, 2010.
Art @ Work Program
The Art @ Work Program features contemporary works by more than 80 leading regional artists. All work is available for purchase or rent, for your home or for your office. Located in the Helen South Alexander Gallery in Cheney Cowles Center, which is open free to the public during regular Museum hours. For more information contact Tammy at (509) 363-5317 or tammyg@northwestmuseum.org.
Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives
The MAC’s Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives is open four days per week. The Research Library and Archives, located in Cheney Cowles Center, is a great place to research historical information and find historic photos. Scanned images and prints of collection items are available for purchase (they make a unique gift for that someone special!). Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
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