A Line Around Your Thoughts

We sit down this week with visual artist Gwyn Pevonka , who also happens to be the driving force behind the 33 Artists Market . There's a 33 Artists Market coming up this weekend (Saturday, July 26, 2025). It's in a brand new location at the Pergola Event Center , and the number of participating artists has tripled for this particular event. Gwyn talks about why she chose to make this her...

On this week's episode we catch up with Zuill Bailey, who is not only an internationally touring cellist but also artistic director of the Northwest BachFest . There are three BachFest concerts coming up next week. First, there's Music in Manito on July 22 and 23. That's followed by the Afterglow performance at Barrister Winery on July 24. All three shows feature the same guest artists — namely, t...

This week we're talking with Dominique Betts, the co-founder of Bright Comet Theatre , and Celeste Bidwell-Williams, who has the lead role in BCT's upcoming production of Carrie: The Musical . Carrie opens Friday, July 18 at Stage Left Theater . More info on the show is available at either the Bright Comet or Stage Left websites (linked in this description). Dominique and Celeste naturally...

This week's episode features another pair of guests: Melody Chang and Andrea Olsen of Spokane Valley Summer Theatre — and by extension the Idaho Central Spokane Valley Performing Arts Center . Andrea is the organization's associate artistic director, and Melody is the communications & marketing director. Melody and Andrea came into the Rogue Heart Media studio to reflect on SVST's 10th anniver...

Our guests this week are Pollyanne Birge of the City of Spokane's Office of Neighborhood Services as well as independent artist Madison Merica. Pollyanne and Madison came in to talk about This Is Spokane:A Civic Guide for Neighbors , which is a new zine that the city has put out to help residents get a better fix on how local government works. Madison was the lead artist on that project. We ta...

This week's episode features a conversation with author Jess Walter , whose new novel is titled So Far Gone and was just published by HarperCollins. So Far Gone is set in and around Spokane but its story isn't region-specific. It's meant to be a portrait of a country where people who might be sitting around the same Thanksgiving table can be living in entirely different realities. Jess...

For this week's episode of A Line Around Your Thoughts, we're joined by Bryan Harnetiaux, the Spokane Civic Theatre 's playwright in residence since 1982. Bryan came in to provide the lowdown on the upcoming Playwrights' Forum Festival that bears his name. In 2025, the festival runs from June 19–22 in the Spokane Civic Theatre's Firth J. Chew studio space. This year, its 35th, there are a dozen on...

Our guest on this week's episode of A Line Around Your Thoughts is Mallory Battista , an independent artist who works in a variety of media. You've probably already come across Mallory's work in the form of murals, mosaic sculptures, holiday window displays, ironworking or comics. She was even kind enough to design the logo for this podcast. We ended up talking about, among other things, zines, th...

This week's episode puts us in conversation with Marit Fischer and Rob Worstell. Marit is the chief marketing officer at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture ; Rob is the organization's education director. Although most MAC conversations tend to focus on the exhibitions, what we talk about instead are the museum's educational and outreach initiatives. They include everything from a youth arts...

On this episode we sit down with Darya Pilram, an artist and Economic Recovery Corps Fellow . We discuss both of those roles, starting with her very first solo exhibition titled "Embracing Imperfection: The Art of Kintsugi Repair." It runs at Spokane's Trackside Studio until May 30, 2025. Then we dive into her work helping to establish creative districts in Garland and Hillyard in Sp...

Our guest on this week's episode of A Line Around Your Thoughts is Shelly Wynecoop, director of grantmaking at Spokane Arts ⁠ . Fresh off the announcement of the most recent round of Spokane Arts Grant Award (SAGA) recipients, Shelly came in to talk about the projects that were funded and the ins and outs of the process itself. We start by going behind the scenes of SAGA and then move on to addres...

This week's guest is James Lowe, music director of the Spokane Symphony . James previews this weekend's Masterworks #9 concert featuring cellist Zuill Bailey, which also happens to be the finale for the SSO's 79th season. He also talks about some of the overarching themes and anticipated highlights for the symphony's recently announced 80th season in 2025–'26. Along the way we chat about the unusu...

For our very first episode, we're joined by director Troy Nickerson and his creative partner Chris Jensen. Their new theater company, Theater on the Verge , launched late last year and recently closed its inaugural production, Every Brilliant Thing . Troy and Chris talk about why they founded Theater on the Verge and the lessons learned during Every Brilliant Thing — including why they had to...