Current Exhibitions

Dancing with Life: Mexican Masks

September 3, 2022-April 16, 2023

Through humor and subversion, Mexican mask makers have always responded to the social and political circumstances of contemporary life. With a regional focus in Michoacan, Mexico, this exhibition presents a selection of dance masks from the MAC collection and contemporary Mexican artists.

^{Photo by Dean Davis.}

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Gift of a Moment: Lila Shaw Girvin

October 9, 2022-March 12, 2023

Through ethereal, abstract paintings blending inner and outer worlds, this retrospective exhibition illuminates the artist’s deeply personal encounters with artmaking over nearly six decades. Living and working in Spokane since 1958, Lila Shaw Girvin has used vibrant color, form and unassuming techniques with oil paint to explore new dimensions of feeling - a process largely guided by intuition and informed by the expansiveness of nature. This work represents a figurative space in which artist and audience meet to experience each moment that arises with presence and spontaneity.

^{Lila Shaw Girvin, Color Washed in Light, c. 1980 – c. 2000, oil on canvas. Courtesy
of Lila and George Girvin. Photo by Dean Davis.}

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Savages and Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes

November 10, 2022-March 19, 2023

Savages and Princesses brings together twelve contemporary Native American visual artists who reclaim their identities by replacing stereotypical images that fill the pop culture landscape. Using humor, subtlety, and irony, the telling is always honest and unequivocal. Images and styles are created from traditional, contemporary, and mass culture forms.

^{Heidi Bigknife, Bloodlines or Belief Systems, 1991; black and white photo on Agfa paper, aluminum, plexiglass, acid-free matte board, steel bolts, nuts, 11 x 14 inches; Courtesy of the artist.}

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Pictures of Poets

January 20-April 2, 2023

Photographer Dean Davis creates a show connecting artist and viewer using headphones and bigger than life portraits. Headphones (bring your own) put the poet in the viewer’s head while observing the poets’ larger than life portraits. Davis has photographed over 185 poets, including the country’s most famous - Ellen Bass and Robert Pinsky - along with many 8th grade writers, in an up-close and intimate way using forward lighting and black and white images

Photo by Dean Davis.