Holiday Artist Studio Tour 2024
Saturday, December 7, 2024
The 8th Annual MAC Holiday Artist Studio Tour features the work of six local artists whose creations include painting, printmaking, enamel, ceramics, and mixed-media. The self-guided tour format allows you to visit the artists in any order and to linger or stop for a break along the way.
Tour 10 am-4 pm. Visit artists in their studios - see where they create and how they work. Art available for sale (100% of the proceeds go directly to the artists.)
Reception 4-6 pm. End your day at the Patsy Clark Mansion to mingle with the artists and enjoy live music. Wine and beer included with your reception ticket. as well as a chance to win a drawing for a work by Amalia Fisch or a plein air introductory painting lesson by LR Montgomery.
$25 tour and reception
$20 tour only
Purchase tickets online or at the MAC starting November 1.
Online ticket sales end at 4 pm on Friday, December 6.
On Saturday, December 7, purchase tickets in person at any of these locations:
The MAC
2316 W First Avenue, Spokane, 99201
Studio of Sheila Evans
1415 E 14th Ave, Spokane, 99202
Studio of Larry Montgomery
428 E 21st Ave, Spokane, 99203
Studio of Amalia Fisch
4227 E 42nd Ave, Spokane, 99223
Support provided by
Meet the Artists
Sheila Evans
Painting, Enamel
Sheila Evans has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of her life and
worked as a professional artist for over 25 years. After nearly a decade of
exclusive work in pastel, she began painting in oil, expanding her subject
matter to include still life and animals in addition to her original botanical
and landscape work. In 2016, she added kiln-fired enamel on metals to her
repertoire and now works regularly in all three mediums. Sheila earned a
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Gonzaga University in 1988.
Amalia Fisch
Painting, Printmaking
Amalia Fisch is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist residing and working in Spokane, Washington. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Washington and has taught and practiced art for three decades. You can find her work in various collections in our region.
Amalia Fisch, Canola Stripes, watercolor on paper, 12” x 12”
Melissa Lang
Painting
Melissa Lang received her BFA in painting at Eastern
Washington University in 1991 and her MFA in painting and
drawing from the University of New Orleans in 1994. Her
work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and
museums and is in private and public collections throughout
the United States and in Tokyo, Japan.
Lang has been awarded a full Graduate School Fellowship,
a 1998 Gap Grant and a 2000 Fellowship from
Washington’s Artist Trust Organization, a Vermont Studi
Center Tuition Award and an artist residency at Jentel in
Wyoming. Notably, she has completed several wall
drawings and large scale murals at the Jundt Art Museum at
Gonzaga University, the Northwest Museum of Arts and
Culture, and the Port Angeles Fine Art Center and was
featured in a two-person exhibition at the Jundt
Museum.
Her paintings and drawings have been represented by the
Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and at Lorinda
Knight Gallery in Spokane, Washington. In addition to
working full-time as a professional artist, Lang has taught as an
adjunct and served as a visiting Artist Lecturer/Reviewer at
colleges and universities in Washington and Idaho
Melissa Lang, Dandelion, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 30
LR Montgomery
Painting
LR Montgomery creates original oil impressionistic landscape paintings of places people love in the Northwest. His paintings bring the ambiance and memories of outdoor experiences into homes, work spaces, and recreational abodes.
Montgomery’s images float through the boundaries of realism and impressionism, reflecting a sensitivity and close interaction with the environment and the Northwest outdoor lifestyle. His recognizable, prolific outpouring of works show a respect for life, nature and the beauty of God's creation.
LR Montgomery’s work is found in the collections of corporations, private individuals, environmental groups, museums, and educational institutions throughout the USA, Europe, Russia, China, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Japan and Australia.
Montgomery has been featured in Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living Magazine, The Spokesman Review, Columbia Basin Herald, Silver Valley Voice, Signals, Art Chowder, and on KSPS Public Television. LR is also the Artist In Residence for Dishman Hills Conservancy.
Suzanne Ostersmith
Ceramics, Painting
Suzanne Ostersmith MFA is Founding Chair and Associate Professor of Dance at Gonzaga University. As a dance, theatre, and visual artist, professor, and scholar, Suzanne believes the ideas expressed by the body are part of a universal language that unlocks creativity and innovation. In her painting she attempts to capture the three-dimensional artform of dance in two dimensions. In pottery Suzanne is fascinated by the manipulation of, essentially earth, into something timeless and functional.
Gay Waldman
Mixed Media
Gay Waldman’s artwork is particularly intriguing with the way her images overlap, hide behind one another, then peek out and encourage the viewer to look carefully and think. Her artwork making relies on constant exploration using a multitude of her photographs layered with rich color and translucent texture. Her imagery includes flora, birds, landscape, seasons, and occasional geometric relics. She presents her finished enhanced and composite photographs as collectable art cards, prints on traditional photo papers, as well as prints on hand-curved satin aluminum and designer fabric scarves.
In a significant way, her work expands how the viewer perceives, considers, and interprets photographic media as art. Selections of Gay’s artwork are currently showing online on her website, in local galleries, and at her Spokane home retail studio shop, StuDio WaHoo.
Gay Waldman, Garden Glitter, composite photo.