<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2dx4C9_1EBAWDuk00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2dx4C9_1EBAWDuk00" width="1620" height="1157" ><figcaption>Artist Kayla Chamberlain, who lived in Spokane for two years, is offering to paint homes that were lost in the fires. &nbsp; Courtesy photo</figcaption></figure>Spokane’s art scene is always coming up with creative ways to help in times of need, and this past week its members have once again stepped up.Art Salvage Spokane, a nonprofit focused on waste reduction and a hub of all things creative, is offering free studio hours for those impacted by the fires, and anyone else who wants to make art during this stressful time. “The Open Studio is a program that we’ve been trying to build up, especially this summer,” says Katie Patterson Larson, Art Salvage’s executive director. “We have pretty limited times that people could come to that, so we just realized that this was a time where people really need to be able to have creativity and to take down the barriers of it.”From 10 am until 4 pm Tuesday through Saturday, Art Salvage’s classrooms and studios are open for tinkering and creating using a plethora of materials. Simply make a reservation at artsalvagespokane.com before dropping by.Larson says creativity in times of distress can help people process trauma, whether they know they’re experiencing it or not.“Creativity is just the way that we are able to express ourselves and process things,” she says. “I think everyone has that need to do it in lots of different ways. Having a concrete thing in the end can be really meaningful, but also the process. You don’t have to walk away with a project. If you just came here and watercolored and glued some stuff, that is really healing, too.”Additionally, Art Salvage is collecting responses via an online survey on how to better serve the community in the coming weeks. Many teachers and local creatives lost their homes, and the nonprofit’s team wants to help replace what may have been lost or is otherwise needed for them to move forward.“Whatever the need might look like, we want to start to get a gauge,” Larson says. “If the resources out there are hitting it, then great, but if there are gaps, then we want to be able to figure out how to get stuff to people.” Even creatives who formerly called Spokane home are helping out.Kayla Chamberlain, a tattoo artist who moved to Miami at the beginning of this year, wanted to give back to the place she called home for two years. Chamberlain is also a former art teacher who painted watercolor portraits of people’s homes on the side.“[With my husband] being in the military, we move a lot and we’re around people who move a lot,” she says. “So having a home portrait is something that is really appealing to military families because you spend so much time in a home and then you have to leave.”Chamberlain decided to offer these custom drawings free to those who lost their houses in the Spokane Complex Fires. An Instagram post announcing her offer has been shared nearly 3,500 times, accumulating 10,700 likes. So far, she’s gotten over 200 responses via a Google Form from people impacted by the fire or who reached out on behalf of someone who lost their home.“I just figured this was a great opportunity to give my art to people and have it really impact their lives,” she says. “I want to hopefully bring them some joy in this season of sorrow that they’re going through.” Find more information on Chamberlain’s Instagram: @chamberlain.ink.</div></body>

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Spokane’s art scene is always coming up with creative ways to help in times of need, and this past week its members have once again stepped up. Art Salvage Spokane, a nonprofit focused on waste reduction and a hub of all things creative, is offering free studio hours for those impacted by the fires, and anyone else who wants to make art during this stressful time.

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Spokane’s art scene is always coming up with creative ways to help in times of need, and this past week its members have once again stepped up. Art Salvage

Local creatives support people processing grief and trauma from wildfire losses

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