A Line Around Your Thoughts

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...