Our mission is to engage the community by providing all-ages spaces for art and music in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. We prioritize local, emerging, marginalized, and underrepresented creatives of all kinds. We want to live in a world where art is essential, music is life, and weirdos are always welcome! Shift is home to an all-ages music venue focused on booking local and regional independent bands and musicians.
Our venue is also available for rent for community events. Each exhibit opens on the First Friday of the month from pm. The gallery is also open Thurs-Sat from pm. The gallery also hosts an annual holiday market in December called Make.
Sale, which features local artists and vendors. KZAX Listen on the dial or online! Shift offers all-ages, all experience level workshops almost every Saturday. We offer annual passes to make workshops and studio time at Make. Shift as affordable as possible. Shift is home to 12 affordable art studios and 6 band practice spaces, as well as a backlined practice space and open art studio that can be rented by the hour.
Our resident musicians span many genres: folk, metal, noise, pop punk, and more. Spaces are rented on a month-to-month lease. Size, rates, and availability vary. Shift created Make. Shift TV in in order to make our programming more accessible and provide more opportunities for local artists and musicians. Episodes feature interviews, live music performances, community video submissions, visual art, and so much more! In the Winter of , Make.
Shift entered into a collaboration with the Whatcom County Crisis Stabilization Center to curate murals for their new facility. The Lummi People are the original inhabitants of Washington's northernmost coast and southern British Columbia. They lived in villages throughout this territory and continue to have an ongoing relationship with these areas. Since Time Immemorial they have celebrated life on their land, water ways and on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of their People to perpetuate their way of life.
