Looking ahead to Marmot’s First Friday

If you're looking for something to do on March 4, well, you're in luck. That will be First Friday, a time when a number of spaces around Spokane will be devoted to displaying art. Click here for a map.

One of the places featured will be celebrating its one-year anniversary. Marmot Art Space, the Kendall Yards gallery that is owned and run by the photographer Marshall Peterson, will be featuring a collection of new work from Northwest artist Ric Gendron.

"I feel like we're doing important work down there," Peterson said in an email. "It's a white cube gallery and many people have been seeking that since Lorinda Knight shut down many years ago."

Pointing out that during its first year Marmot has featured "some of the bigger names in the region" (Gendron, Kay O'Rourke, Melissa Cole) as well as community projects (Verbatim, with Spokane Poet Laureate Thom Caraway, and Spokane Fifty), Peterson added that he's "also been working hard to use my skills as a promoter/manager/producer to work with emerging artists Sam White and Jim Dhillon (Sam was just featured on KSPS' Northwest Profiles) to help them to create their best works ever and find a new audience and build careers."

Marmot Art Space is located at 1206 W. Summit (Adams Alley), right behind MonkeyBoy Bicycles and across the alley from newly opened Craftsman Cellers.