The Hive® Artist-In-Residence Program

 and STUDIO A: The Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Guild (INMOD) will be at The Hive March and April 2026.

• Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Guild (INMOD) was founded to support, encourage, and inspire the growth and development of modern quilting through art, education, and community. INMOD’s Sew Day is once a month, usually on the third Saturday, from 10am – 4pm. They meet at the WSU/Spokane County Extension Office. We also meet every 1^st Tuesday of the month on Zoom for Sip & Stitch. Their work will be on display May 30 – August 22 at The Jundt Gallery & Museum on the Gonzaga University campus.
  

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STUDIO B: Sarah Louise Windisch will be at the Hive March – May 2026

• Sarah Windisch works is a printmaker who primarily works with relief printing techniques. She also incorporates collage into her work. She is the creator of the Library’s new marmot screaming READ artwork which you can see on t-shirts, bookmarks and billboards around town.

STUDIO C: Christa Mattocks and Linea Jantz will be at the Hive through May 2026.

• Empty heaChrista Mattocks and Linea Jantz are working together on an illustrated children’s book about science and local ecology. Christa does the illustrating and Linea does the writing. 

STUDIO D: Genie Maples and Isabelle Eastman are sharing a studio but working separately. They will both be in residence through September, 2026.

• Genie Maples works primarily in paint, stitchery, and pen and ink. Her current body of work is titled What Passes for Play. Her work was featured as part of the library’s recent marketing campaign and you can get a library card with her art on it!
• Isabelle Eastman is a fiction writer, currently focused on a draft of her novel. She notes that, “My personal craft experience often informs my characters’ hobbies, and vice versa; in my novel, there are characters who pursue quilting, woodturning, and square dance! I hope to take a multidisciplinary approach to my novel by making a quilt.”