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March 2016 Featured Artists

March 2016 Featured Artists

Join us at First Thursday, March 3rd to meet the featured artists: Virginia Paul, Susan Blubaugh, Mai Ding, and Mary E. Huels.

February 2016 Featured Artists

Lake Sacajawea

Join us at First Thursday, February 4th to meet the featured artists: Beth Bailey,  Betty Jurey, and Terry Strehlou.

January 2016 Featured Artists

Silk Painting 1

Join us at First Thursday, January 7 to meet the featured artists Susan Supola,  Renee Bliss Anderson, and Ray Cooper.

December 2015 Featured Artists

Coldwater Lake

Join us at First Thursday, December 3 to meet the featured artists Carol Boudreau,  Fran Reisner,  Jane Gerdon, and view the Gingerbread Haus Display.

November 2015 Featured Artists

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Join us at First Thursday, November 5 to meet the featured artists Vicki Brigden, Scott McRae, Ann Munson, and Chris Warren.

The Great Recession and the Arts

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“State funded arts programs have survived but with significant economic scars,”  ~ Laurel Murphy, community arts blogger. I received many emails this year from arts organizations urging me to lobby on behalf of the arts. There were times when it appeared that National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) would lose all funding and the Washington […]