A Line Around Your Thoughts

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . The blacksmith, improv actor, comedy writer, magician and, among many other things, award-winning pun champion Annica Eagle is with us this week. She chats about her...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Spokane Symphony Music Director James Lowe rejoins us this week, accompanied this time by executive director Steve Wenig, to talk about the SSO's upcoming 2026-27 se...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Our guests this week are David and Jamie Womach, who perform together in the shows that David headlines as professional illusionist David DaVinci . They provide some details...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Elyce Tallman of Mad Hatter Pottery and Jake Pendle of Ever Rogue Art Studio join us this week to talk about their recent experience in Terrain 's Creative Enterprise program. L...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week's guests are Toby Keough and Chris Grubb of Coeur d'Alene's new fine art gallery and professional artist collective, MODUS . Ahead of the gallery's grand opening on June 1...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . It's the start of Pride Month, and our guest this week is Gatieh Nacario, who designed this year's Spokane Pride T-shirt. Gatieh is the visual artist behind many public and priv...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Our guest this week is Nathan O'Brien, founder and showrunner of the Lilac City Comicon . The LCC will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year when it runs June 6 and 7 at the Spokane...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Welcome to the standalone second (and final) part of our two back-to-back episodes featuring members of the Spokane Public Library⁠⁠ . This week we're back on location at the SPL's in-h...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week's episode is on location at the Spokane Public Library 's podcast studio, where our guests are Eva Silverstone and Alina Murcar. Eva is the SPL's Arts Education Specialist; Al...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠⁠ . This episode marks A Line Around Your Thoughts' one-year anniversary. And in honor of that, we're checking back in with our debut-episode pioneers, Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen of Theater on...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠⁠via our website⁠⁠ . On the second Thursday of each month, poet David Klenda ("86") and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Richardson unleash The Chaos at the Blue Door Theatre . The Chaos is an unpredictable, semi-improvi...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ ⁠our Patreon community⁠ ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us ⁠via our website⁠ . We're back in the Rogue Heart Media studio this week to revisit with Imagine Jazz . But this time, we're talking to musician Brendan McMurphy. In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, Imagine Jazz is hosti...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠ our Patreon community ⁠. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us via our website . This week's episode was recorded at Hamilton Studio's Listening Room , where the musician Riley Anderson will be performing on April 24, 2026 as part of their Emerging Artists series. Riley makes solo musi...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Engage with ALAYT on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week, we're chatting with photographers Donna Larsen and Steve Whitacre, who are co-chairs of the Spokane Camera Club . They cover the ins and outs of the 94-year-old club before getting into that inescapab...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠ . Engage with ALAYT on ⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ . Colin Manikoth, an assistant professor in the Department of Design at Eastern Washington University, joins us this week. The discussion touches on Colin's field of user experience (UX) design in addition to universal design...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠ . Engage with ALAYT on ⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ . This week, we're talking with printmakers Reinaldo Gil Zambrano and Madeline E. Goolie (aka MEG). We explore their processes, their inspiration as well as the many ways that the public can engage with printmaking locally. That...

33 Artists Market returns to the podcast, now under the stewardship of this week's guests, Scott and Irene Kelly. The pair shed some light on why the popular multi-vendor event has changed hands and what they've got planned for the future — including their upcoming March 28, 2026 market. As artists themselves, Irene and Scott also talk about their respective backgrounds in weaving and digi...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of ⁠our Patreon community⁠ . Engage with ALAYT on ⁠Mastodon⁠ , ⁠Bluesky⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ . This week we're in conversation with Greg Bem , a poet, community college librarian and the founder of Carbonation Press . Carbonation is a small, local literary publisher with a catalogue of about 20 titles so far. Two recent titles g...

Join the conversation and support A Line Around Your Thoughts as part of our Patreon community . Engage with ALAYT on Mastodon , Bluesky and Instagram . This week we're on location at the Eastern Washington University Art Gallery to chat with visiting textile artists Meagan Smith and Allyce Wood . Meagan weaves using modern digital tools to create visually striking pieces, whereas Allyce often...

Keep these conversations going by becoming a part of the ALAYT Patreon community. Interested in becoming an episode or season sponsor? Reach out to us via our website . This year's Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) runs from March 6 to 8, 2026.The festival includes over one dozen feature films plus live interviews and blocks of themed programming like Worlds of Animation, Queer Short...

Liz Hooker and Dave Aaron join us for this week's episode. Liz is the vice president of marketing and programming for the Downtown Spokane Partnership , and Dave is a local visual artist. They came in to talk about a new initiative that the DSP launched earlier this year called First Friday Face-Off. The monthly event has two artists independently create an original themed work in front of a l...

Time's running out, so be sure to vote for A Line Around Your Thoughts as Best Local Podcast in the Inlander's Best of 2026 poll before February 17! This week we're sitting down with Tanya Morton, the executive artistic director of Spokane Children's Theatre . In her role, Tanya has been working to cultivate a positive environment for kids, collaborate with other theaters and expan...

On this week's episode, Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Noel Smith assures us that the kids are alright. During her two-year tenure so far, she's spearheaded several programs to get poetry into the hands and hearts of children as well as young adults — including her most recent initiative, the selection of Spokane's first-ever Youth Poet Laureate. Mery sheds some light on some of those prog...

Support A Line Around Your Thoughts on Patreon! Visit ⁠our Patreon community⁠ to learn more. Our guest this week is the Sandpoint-based singer, songwriter and visual artist Dario Ré . Dario performs locally both under his own name and with the ensemble Heat Speak. His music is an eclectic and inventive mix of chamber folk, world fusion, indie pop and, of late, electronic. We talk about that melang...

Support A Line Around Your Thoughts on Patreon! Visit our Patreon community to learn more. This week, Ashley Demoville and Claire Rae Edmo are our guests. Ashley is the Dean of Visual, Performing and Applied Arts at Spokane Falls Community College , and Claire is the college's second sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-in-Residence. You can catch some of Claire's work at the Here & Now exhibition at SFCC...