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gallery exhibits + art shows
Enchanted Garden Art Show

Enchanted Garden Art Show

When Bakersville artist Josh Brooke Coté was a kid, his constant companions were a pair of well-loved stuffed rabbits named Bunny and Peter. The…

This Is How It Happened

This Is How It Happened

Painter Margaret Curtis doesn’t just tackle power dynamics — she dissects, distills, and reassembles them in fiercely imaginative works that walk the line between…

Breast Story

Breast Story

According to Flat Rock sculptor David Macvaugh, connection requires vulnerability — “and vulnerability,” he says, “is utterly terrifying.” His new installation, Breast Story, explores…

Cut, Paste, Heal

Cut, Paste, Heal

Art series helps community heal post-Helene When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina, it reshaped both the land and our collective psyche.  “I…

Burning Bright 

Burning Bright 

Growing up on Sunset Beach with the Atlantic Ocean as his front yard, Scott Summerfield spent his childhood sketching shrimp boats and building model…

Making Impressions on Higher Ground

Making Impressions on Higher Ground

After anchoring the printmaking scene in the River Arts District for years, Denise Markbreit and Anna Bryant have launched a new chapter downtown. Print…

Tuning Into Tradition

Tuning Into Tradition

As a master luthier with more than 40 years of experience, John Kinnaird has one goal: to craft a guitar that looks as stunning…

From Wheel to Meal 

From Wheel to Meal 

On Sunday, May 18, a group of local potters will turn their craft into compassion during Empty Bowls. Now in its eighth year, the…

Deep Cut

Deep Cut

Pine trees have their limits. Asheville sculptor and art educator Thomas Schram learned this as a young boy growing up in North Carolina’s Piedmont…

Creative Heights

Creative Heights

In 1875, Highlands began as a high-elevation haven for those seeking relief from heat and humidity. But the summer colony quickly transformed into a…

A New Layer of Talent

A New Layer of Talent

Gallery Row, the one-mile arts district made up of Biltmore Avenue and Broadway Street, just acquired one more creative: Rand Kramer. Now represented by…

From Destruction to Creation

From Destruction to Creation

In those long, shapeless days after Hurricane Helene, Asheville mixed-media artist Li Newton says she “moved through the chaos on automatic — shutdown from reality.” Existing…

Weaving Through Loss

Weaving Through Loss

When Hurricane Helene barreled into Western North Carolina, weaver Emelie Weber Wade retreated from her first-floor apartment in Biltmore Village to a friend’s nearby…

That’s Her Transfiguration

That’s Her Transfiguration

Fear can limit you. Alexander artist Chrys Corn Goodman knows this firsthand.  Growing up in San Francisco, Goodman always wanted to be an artist….

Gallery Interrupted 

Gallery Interrupted 

What happens to a dream deferred by ongoing road construction? For Julie and Phil Wilmot, owners of Art on 7th in Hendersonville, that dream…