Put a Stamp on It: Flood Gallery’s Annual Mail Art Show
byThe United States Postal Service is in dire trouble, and Flood Gallery Fine Art Center is recruiting artists to defend it, via the gallery’s…
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Sink Your Teeth Into Something New
byFresher temperatures feel like fresh opportunity, right? Many of this month’s significant annual arts events have been cancelled or moved online. Silver lining: There’s…
Still Filling the Vessels of Hope
byEducational ceramics center The Village Potters is nothing if not a hands-on business, and the facility was only able to reopened its physical classes…
SHE
byThe name says it all in this exhibit, an expansive group show featuring expressive contemporary work by women artists who choose women, or women’s…
London Calling
bySelf-taught artist Jenny Pickens, a native of Asheville who co-created the Black Lives Matter mural installed last month in downtown Asheville, was recently announced…
Love the Locals
byThe folks in the Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League, who administer the Red House Studios and Gallery in downtown Black Mountain, are eager to…
Apples Any Way
byExercising diligence about COVID, the popular North Carolina Apple Festival in downtown Hendersonville had to cancel its two big public events this year —…
Tower Time
byAsheville installation artist David Sheldon says he was “thrilled to be selected from a very competitive, nationwide pool of prospective sculptors” to create a…
Granted, Many Artists Could use a Boost
byIf Plato and Aristotle were right about art imitating life, then 2020 has been a rough and tumble year of uncertainty in the arts….
Lead Artists for Mural Announced
byThe Asheville Area Arts Council on July 3 announced the three artists picked to administer a Black Lives Matter mural, to be sited downtown…