Mixed Media

Layer by Layer

Layer by Layer

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Exploring texture and imagination in Kenilworth The streets of Asheville’s Kenilworth neighborhood twist and turn like brushstrokes on a canvas — an apt setting…

Stitched in Surprise 

Stitched in Surprise 

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Guild artists showcase playful works on the Parkway For Hendersonville fiber artist Barbara Jones, creativity begins with a question: What happens if? What happens…

Quiet Witness

Quiet Witness

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​​Small works exhibition opens at Mark Bettis Gallery When David Sheldon left Brooklyn for Asheville in 2008, the outdoors quickly became central to both…

Tradition, Unmasked

Tradition, Unmasked

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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 

Scrap to Spotlight 

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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,…

Nature, Unscripted

Nature, Unscripted

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Toe River Arts exhibition lets the landscape take the lead Mushroom spores, wasp nests, flower petals — in the hands of Burnsville artists George…

Holding the Fray

Holding the Fray

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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

Living the Experiment

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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

Taking Flight

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David Sheldon lets the birds out of the book Asheville artist David Sheldon has always been captivated by the avian world. In his ongoing…

Beautiful Disasters

Beautiful Disasters

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In her first solo exhibition with Tracey Morgan Gallery, interdisciplinary artist Elizabeth Alexander reimagines domestic décor as evidence of a slow unraveling. Opening August…