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 . 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...

Joining us in the Rogue Heart Media studio this week are Eric Woodard and Morgan Marie of Pivot Spokane . Pivot is the long-running, local, live storytelling series that includes quarterly mainstage events featuring workshopped storytellers from the community as well as more casual, open-mic events. With Pivot's mainstage event—themed "Rivals"—coming up on January 29, followed by the...

We're sitting down this week with Alex Calbick and Tiffany Bubna of Spokane Puppetry, which is a new organization that aims to share their passion for puppetry as a craft and puppets as a creative medium. This year, Spokane Puppetry's previously ad hoc workshops are now a regular monthly event at both Art Salvage and Spark Central. The first workshop of 2026 is at Art Salvage on January 10...

Happy New Year! Because of the holidays, we've had special episodes last week and this week. Together they make a two-part retrospective featuring moments from the Lightning Round that closes every interview. Whereas last week's episode drew from the podcast's first four months, this episode features guests from the latter part of 2025. They include Mel Antuna Hewitt, Preston Singletar...

Merry Christmas! As regular listeners know—and as our guests are sometimes surprised to discover—every interview on A Line Around Your Thoughts closes with a Lightning Round. This is the first of two special holiday episodes that revisit some Lightning Round moments from the past year. The selections in this episode are from ALAYT's first four months. Featured guests include Troy Nickerson &am...

This week's guest is also acting as our host. He is the lighting designer, photographer and filmmaker turned venue owner, Don Hamilton. For this episode, Don invited A Line Around Your Thoughts to record at the Hamilton Studio , a former gym and auditorium in West Central that now moonlights as The Listening Room . Since launching almost two years ago to the day, this roughly 200-seat venue ha...

This episode features Brett & Rose Noble, the husband-and-wife team behind the DIY record label and event promoter 2-2-1 Press . The now Spokane-based (by way of Illinois) label recently put out a scene compilation titled Beneath the Falls . They hosted the release concert for that back in November. 2-2-1 Press is, among many other things, also the organizer of the upcoming Sonic Solstice fest...

This week we're sitting down with Karin Wedemeyer, founder and executive director of both the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint and Sandpoint's Bel Canto Opera. Since its founding in 2009, the Sandpoint Conservatory has grown to the point where it has an accredited, professional staff of around 20 and teaches several hundred students every year. The conservatory also hosts and organizes events like...

Our guest for this Thanksgiving Day episode is the choreographer, dancer, arts advocate and potter Suzanne Ostersmith . Up until a few months ago, Suzanne was the chair of Gonzaga University's dance program — a program that she herself founded. She retired in May after 25 years at the university, but she certainly hasn't been idle since then. For one, she's been a multifaceted creative...