Posted in News on July 23, 2019 at 6:00 am
By Erin Dodge Within the Library District’s creative spaces—The Lab at North Spokane Library and The Studio at Spokane Valley Library—we’ve hosted creators who have taught program participants how to reupholster furniture, decorate cakes and cupcakes, shoot professional-level film, take awesome photographs, sew something special, paint land […]
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Posted in Explore and Discover on June 12, 2019 at 6:00 am
by Melissa Rhoades Writer Kurt Vonnegut survived being a soldier and prisoner of war during WWII. He also suffered from depression. Knowing these facts adds extra weight to Vonnegut’s thoughts about the importance of art: “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more […]
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