Rotting and Decaying

I will be sounding a bit like whining Gen Xer in this post. Why? Because Spokane’s art scene continues to rot as the city does. I know that sounds extreme but I have already mentioned Art Chowder magazine ceasing production. Now we have another death on the art vine.

Inland Northwest Opera has suddenly stopped production and being in existence.

“Blah! Opera!” you may think but even if you are not an opera fan? It is not a good thing to have happen. I have never seen one of their productions. I seemed to have always missed any because they did not seem to get the word out. This may have been a symptom of the problem that led to the ending of the opera here in Spokane…the lack of knowledge about their productions to the public. Still, it is a huge, bad, thing for it to suddenly not exist anymore. Yet another art outlet locally dying on the artistic vine.

Spokane is looking more and more in total decline and dead artistically. Sure, there are events still happening but the types of artistic outlet are being narrowed down for creatives and that makes it more constricted a place for artists to live. It is a temperature gauge for the whole city in the health of the arts to see the deaths of art groups and art related things in Spokane. It means there are creative people who will have to go elsewhere to have an outlet for their work or else wither on the vine. I am seeing the whole artistic plant die here and it is not something I want to stick around for.