Luke Baumgarten and Ginger Ewing both grew up around Spokane, moved away, and then moved back to the city they loved to start their careers—Ewing was a forensic anthropologist, and Baumgarten is a writer—but they started a community instead.
Together and with others, Baumgarten and Ewing cofounded Terrain in 2008, an arts organization dedicated to keeping talent in Spokane. Over the years, they’ve thrown yearly art parties in abandoned buildings, created Bazaar, an art marketplace for emerging artists to sell their work, and fueled the economic development of culture and creativity in Spokane. Now Terrain has found a more permanent home in the old Washington Cracker Co. Building. Amid the old brick walls covered with peeling white paint, the couple’s creative empire boasts an art gallery, a performance stage, and Fellow, a new coworking space started by Baumgarten.