Glow Up
Asheville painter turns emotions into luminous landscapes Darkness may be part of life, but Asheville painter Amy Massey is drawn to the glimmers inside…
Heel to Toe
Spruce Pine artist Dori Settles casts shoes Cinderella may have lost her slipper, but Dori Settles has found nearly 60 — and turned them…
Tradition, Unmasked
Four new exhibitions open at Blue Spiral 1 A striped mask with orange-rimmed eyes and lips fixes its gaze in “Zebra Mask,” a painting…
Scrap to Spotlight
Asheville’s most resourceful makers show off their chops What can you do with a pile of secondhand building supplies? For the past 14 years,…
Dark Delights
American Folk Art’s October show conjures the macabre Things will get a little wicked at American Folk Art this fall with Midnight in the…
Nature, Unscripted
Toe River Arts exhibition lets the landscape take the lead Mushroom spores, wasp nests, flower petals — in the hands of Burnsville artists George…
Shaping the Skyline
Asheville Art Museum spotlights the city’s architects In the early 20th century, travel writers dubbed Asheville “the Paris of the South,” a nod to…
Holding the Fray
Artists embrace damage, care, and repair at Penland What does it mean to mend? PERFECTION: a question of repair, opening at Penland Gallery this…
Living the Experiment
Tracing the history of performance at Black Mountain College Black Mountain College was never just a school — it was a laboratory for experimentation…
Taking Flight
David Sheldon lets the birds out of the book Asheville artist David Sheldon has always been captivated by the avian world. In his ongoing…