By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Like many artists, Dan Carpenter’s creative journey has been lifelong. “I think I started drawing before I could write,” he told the Reader. Carpenter, who is being honored as...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Chris and Dan Brubeck, namesake members of the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, originally became jazz musicians because it happened to be the Brubeck family business. As for that origin story,...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Looking back on the highlights of my childhood, I’d definitely have to list the time that I ruled a kingdom. There was also the time I lived in the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council has long believed that to truly foster an artistic and culturally rich community in North Idaho, resources must extend beyond established artists and into...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Three local arts groups are better than one, as evidenced by the return of This Winter Night — a production of dance and music brought to the community by...
By Claire Christy Reader Contributor The Pend Oreille Arts Council invites the community to an open house event at the Joyce Dillon Studio on Friday, Jan. 7, from 5-7 p.m. upstairs in the Music...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff When asked to describe his band’s music in only a few words, Barrio Manouche frontman Javi Jimenez falls silent. Then, he laughs. “It is really hard for me to...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Okaidja Afroso writes what he knows. Born to a musical family in a culturally rich fishing community on the west coast of Ghana, Afroso has built a life of...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Though the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s annual Arts and Crafts Fair does not typically take place until late summer, POAC Arts Coordinator Claire Christy said that the massive art...
By Reader Staff If you know a third- through sixth-grader with an interest in learning about the dramatic arts through entertaining, interactive activities with their peers, check out Pend Oreille Arts Council’s new after-school...
