Artists open their studios for tour
LISA JAMES/Press Jan Clizer is a fine art painter with a classical style. Her converted barn studio at 2601 E. Harrison Ave. in Coeur d’Alene will be open for the Artist Studio tour on June 10.
LOREN BENOIT/Press Artist Terry Lee sculpts an Idaho farmer inside his Hayden studio on Wednesday. The sculpture, commissioned by Doyle Jacklin, will be finished in September and will be placed by the Working Man statue in Coeur d’Alene. Local artists, like Terry Lee, will be opening up their studios for Artists Studio Tour, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 10-11. Tickets for the tour are available online at artsandculturecda.org/artist-studio-tour or at the Coeur d’Alene Visitor Center at 105 N. First St. in Coeur d’Alene.
LOREN BENOIT/Press From left, Chelsea Cordova, Sharalee Howard and Jessica Bryant and many other other artists will be opening up their studios for Artists Studio Tour, June 10-11. The tour, organized by the Coeur d’Alene Arts and Culture Alliance, takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and comprises 25 artists working in 12 studios in and around the Coeur d’Alene area. Tickets for the event are available online at artsandculturecda.org/artist-studio-tour or at the Coeur d’Alene Visitor Center at 105 N. First St. in Coeur d’Alene.
COEUR d’ALENE — Two days, 12 studios to visit, 25 artists.
The Artist Studio Tour returns to Coeur d’Alene from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11. For $10, studio tourists will receive a passport to visit 12 studios where they can observe artists in the spaces where their creative inspiration takes form. Visitors will interact with the artists and watch them work with paints, metal, glass, charcoal, textiles, beads, bronze and more.
The tour, hosted by the Coeur d’Alene Arts & Culture Alliance, winds through Hayden, Dalton Gardens, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls and includes chances to win raffle prizes at the various. Those who get their passports stamped at all 12 locations will be entered into a raffle for one of two grand prize baskets — valued at $300 to $400 each.
Participating artists include: Debora Seaver, Kathy LeFrancis, Terry Lee, Steve Knudson, Cheryl Metcalf, Stephen Shortridge, Karen Trueblood, Kyle Paliotto, Terry Swanson Blakemore, Lori Blessing, Teresa McHugh, Diane Higdem, Denise Gilroy, Sandie Key, Yvonne Benzinger, Linda Lantzy, Jan Clizer, Julie Rae, Chelsea Cordova, Jessica Bryant, Sharalee Howard, Sarah Thompson Moore, Kevin Jester, Kathy Gale, Toni Spencer and Tammy Crawford.
Tickets and maps are available online at artsandculturecda.org/artists-studio-tour or at the Coeur d’Alene Visitor Center at 105 N. First St. in Coeur d’Alene.
An opening artist reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 9 during the Emerge Pop-Up Show at 208 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene.