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…
High Water Marks
Colton Dion’s post-Helene works chart hope In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Asheville painter and sculptor Colton Dion found himself working at a different…
Rising from the Mud
The Village Potters Clay Center reopens after Helene When Sarah Wells Rolland, founding president of The Village Potters Clay Center, left her Haywood County…
A Landscape Reimagined
Last year, artist Alissa Mellis-Gruba was set to debut Foraging the Landscape at the Spotlight Gallery in the River Arts District. Then came Hurricane…