Spokane has outgrown its inferiority complex and is keeping artists in Lilac City. The creative scene is blossoming thanks to people like Terrain founders Ginger Ewing and Luke Baumgarten, Spark Central director Brooke Matson, and Alan Chatham, founder of Laboratory.
Seattle art book publisher Ed Marquand helped create a vibrant artisan incubator space called Mighty Tieton in a tiny Yakima Valley town, a place where creative businesses employ bookbinders, printers, and mosaic artists. It all began when a "goat head" thorn gave his bicycle a flat tire...
