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How to Be a Successful Artist in Spokane and Beyond: A Conversation

How to Be a Successful Artist in Spokane and Beyond?: A Conversation

Saturday, Dec 10, 12-2 p.m. SPARK Central

Description:
In this panel, Spokane Arts Executive Director Melissa Huggins, Artistic Director of Square Top Theatre Charlie Pepiton, and artist and Whitworth University Professor Katie Creyts discuss how to thrive as an artist practicing locally while building an audience for your work beyond Spokane. Each will discuss opportunities and challenges for artists of all disciplines, how to professionalize your practice to be a more successful artist, and strategies for cultivating success outside of your own community. A Q&A will follow the conversation.

This panel is free. RSVPs are encouraged.

About the Panelists

Katie Creyts artwork uses the content of fables and folklore with a wide range of materials to illustrate what connects (or disconnects) contemporary culture with nature. Creyts is an artist and art professor living in Spokane, WA. She has an MFA from Illinois State University, a BFA from Tyler School of Art, and has received scholarship for study at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Pilchuck Glass School, and The Studio at the Corning Museum.

Melissa Huggins is the Executive Director of Spokane Arts. She previously served as the director of Get Lit! Programs, including the Get Lit! Festival, Spokane Youth Book Festival, and outreach programs for K-12 students. She writes fiction and nonfiction, and her interviews with Joyce Carol Oates, William T. Vollmann, and Emily St. John Mandel have appeared in Willow Springs. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University.

Charles M Pepiton works as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Gonzaga University. He earned an MFA in Directing at the University of Idaho. As a director, his interests revolve around creating new work and exploring new potentials for theatre to engage across bordersbetween people and cultures, between methods and disciplines. Charlie cultivates projects that place divergent methods, media, aesthetics, and cultures in collaborative environments to explore the harmonies between seemingly dissonant parts. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in China from 2010-2012 where he directed cross-cultural productions