If you are looking for immersion in the arts, head for the hills. The new Arts Alive! Center for the Arts on the plateau in Enumclaw has something for everyone. It's part collaborative gallery, part studio and classroom, and part community gathering space. Arts Alive! offers watercolor, oil, acrylic, bookbinding and carving classes. Open studio times are available on Tuesday afternoons. Each Friday you can participate in open studios, poetry jams, artists' salons, and play readings. My son loved the huge "bonging" instruments (pictured) throughout the gallery and was invited by the volunteer working on Saturday to hit each one, creating quite a commotion throughout their great new space.
Arts Alive! Center for the Arts
1429 Cole St. Enumclaw
360-802-6787
http://www.plateauartsalive.org
