Holding the Fray
byArtists embrace damage, care, and repair at Penland What does it mean to mend? PERFECTION: a question of repair, opening at Penland Gallery this…
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Living the Experiment
byTracing the history of performance at Black Mountain College Black Mountain College was never just a school — it was a laboratory for experimentation…
Taking Flight
byDavid 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
byColton 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
byThe 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
byLast year, artist Alissa Mellis-Gruba was set to debut Foraging the Landscape at the Spotlight Gallery in the River Arts District. Then came Hurricane…
Beautiful Disasters
byIn her first solo exhibition with Tracey Morgan Gallery, interdisciplinary artist Elizabeth Alexander reimagines domestic décor as evidence of a slow unraveling. Opening August…
A Gallery of Her Own
byWhen Connie Bostic passed away in January 2024, Asheville lost a cultural firestarter. From opening one of the city’s first gay bars in the…
Back and Brilliant in Biltmore
byGrand Bohemian Gallery hosts reopening celebration After months of rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the Grand Bohemian Gallery is throwing open its…
Fray and Glory
byWhat counts as damage — and who decides what’s worth repairing? Asheville artist Nava Lubelski is posing these very questions in her mixed-media textile…