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A Line Around Your Thoughts

@alayt.bsky.social

A podcast that centers on conversations with artists, writers, musicians and creatives from around the Inland Northwest.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 7d ago

Log cabin 🪵, wedding ring 💍, Ohio star ⭐️? Some of the building blocks of traditional quilting, and modern quilters often use them in innovative ways. Listen this week as Jane Bitz & Mickey McReynolds of the ⁠Inland #Northwest Modern Quilt Guild⁠ (INMOD) explain how and why. #quilting #Spokane

Jane Bitz and Mickey McReynolds of INMOD

Mickey McReynolds and Jane Bitz of the ⁠Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Guild⁠ (INMOD) join us this week.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Whether playing with narrative or interior dimensions, book arts is often about heightening the revelatory experience when you open the cover. Sherra Gallaher and Jennifer Mead of the Inland NW Book Arts Society discuss that and more on this week's episode. #Spokane #visualarts

Jennifer Mead & Sherra Gallaher of the Inland Northwest Book Arts Society

This week's guests are Jennifer Mead and Sherra Gallaher, members of the ⁠Inland Northwest Book Arts Society⁠ and book artists themselves.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 4w ago

Quick, think of a clever pun to introduce this week's guest, the multitalented Annica Eagle. Got one? Good. Maybe you can go up against Annica in the world of competitive punning. She talks about that as well as blacksmithing, magic, improv acting and more.

Annica Eagle, blacksmith, improv actor, pun champion

Annica Eagle—blacksmith, improv actor, comedy writer, magician and competitive punner—sits down this week to chat about all of the above.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · last mo.

When does outreach become "downreach"? This week, the Spokane Symphony's James Lowe and Steve Wenig talk about authentic engagement with the community. Plus, ahead of their July 4 concert, they tease some highlights of the orchestra's upcoming 81st season. #Spokane #classical #music

James Lowe & Steve Wenig of the Spokane Symphony

Rejoining us this week is James Lowe, the Spokane Symphony's music director, along with Steve Wenig, the new executive director.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · last mo.

Working with birds is magic — quite literally for this week's guests, Sandpoint-based illusionists David and Jamieleigh Womach. David performs internationally as David DaVinci, and you can catch his shows—ParrotFX and Thrillusionist—at Silverwood Theme Park in #Idaho all summer.

David (aka David DaVinci) & Jamieleigh Womach, illusionists

Sandpoint-based illusionists David Womach (aka David DaVinci) and his wife and assistant Jamieleigh join us this week.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Making art and making a living doesn't have to be an either/or choice. This week, Elyce Tallman (Mad Hatter Pottery) and Jake Pendle (Ever Rogue Art Studio) talk about Terrain's Creative Enterprise program and how being part of its 8th cohort has equipped them to pursue their creative calling.

Elyce Tallman & Jake Pendle of Terrain’s Creative Enterprise Program

Artists Elyce Tallman and Jake Pendle join us this week to share their recent experience in ⁠Terrain⁠’s Creative Enterprise program.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Where once there was Art Spirit, there now is MODUS. Ahead of its grand opening, artists and gallery co-owners Toby Keough & Chris Grubb talk about the new (and former) space in Coeur d'Alene, their professional collaborators and the gallery's unconventional model. #Idaho #art #podcast

Toby Keough and Chris Grubb of MODUS Gallery

Ahead of the grand opening of MODUS, artists Toby Keough and Chris Grubb talk about the new Coeur d'Alene fine art gallery.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's #Pride Month, and #Spokane is getting ready to celebrate with the annual parade and festival on June 12 & 13, 2026. This week we're chatting with the designer of this year's Spokane Pride T-shirt, Gatieh Nacario, who's also a muralist, Filipino folk dancer, singer and actor.

Gatieh Nacario, visual and performing artist

As Pride Month begins, our guest is Gatieh Nacario, the visual and performing artist who designed this year's Spokane Pride shirt.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

20 years ago, Nathan O'Brien started an event with 300 attendees, one Stormtrooper and a guest appearance from Margot Kidder & her dog. Now that celebration of all things pop culture is Spokane's Lilac City Comicon, which runs June 6 & 7. Get the lowdown on this week's episode. #Spokane #comicon

Nathan O’Brien of the Lilac City Comicon

Our guest for this episdoe is Nathan O'Brien, founder and showrunner of the ⁠Lilac City Comicon⁠.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're back in the Spokane Public Library's in-house podcast studio — this time with SPL Writing Education Specialist and author Sharma Shields. Sharma talks about Spokane Zine Fest (May 30, 2026), annual poetry salons and her forthcoming novel "Duckling." #Spokane #zines #poetry #writing

Sharma Shields, author

We're back in the Spokane Public Library's in-house podcast studio, this time with SPL Writing Education Specialist and author Sharma Shields.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The #Spokane Public Library is looking to support folks from their very first interaction with a paintbrush, book or instrument up to the moment they're putting original work out into the world. Find out why and how from this week's guests, Eva Silverstone and Alina Murcar.

Eva Silverstone & Alina Murcar of the Spokane Public Library

This week's episode is on location at the ⁠Spokane Public Library⁠'s podcast studio, where our guests are Eva Silverstone and Alina Murcar. Eva is the library's Arts Education Specialist; Alina is the Marketing & Communications Manager. The two of them talk about how Spokane's library system has transformed from the traditional repository of printed matter into a multifaceted resource for the creative community — from a person's very first contact with a craft to a showcase for their final work.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sad to announce this, but ALAYT's vodcast version is going away. Video costs, even at a 'friend' rate, and the level of sponsorship just isn't there. Going $200 out of pocket—plus the unaccounted costs of prep & editing—each episode isn't sustainable for me. Sorry. alaytpodcast.com/sponsors-sup...

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There are several ways to support A Line Around Your Thoughts and keep the conversation going. Season Sponsorship ($5,000 per season) Season sponsors are credited by name before and after each week…

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No, you haven’t traveled back in time. Theater on the Verge co-founders Troy Nickerson & Chris Jensen—ALAYT's first-ever guests—are rejoining us this week to recap the past year and look ahead to "Hand to God," their puppet-forward dark comedy that opens on May 21. #Spokane #theater #podcast

Troy Nickerson & Chris Jensen of Theater on the Verge

Theater on the Verge co-founders Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen revisit us for this one-year anniversary episode.

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A Line Around Your Thoughts@alayt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What's The Chaos? It's a lot like it sounds, but this week's guests, poet David Klenda and musician Thomas Richardson, talk about how they're bringing some order to the monthly multi-disciplinary, semi-improvised event. #Spokane #music #poetry #arts #improv

David Klenda (“86)” & Thomas Richardson of The Chaos

For this week's episode, poet David Klenda and musician Thomas Richardson fill us in on a monthly event known as The Chaos

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