Current Events
byAsheville Art Museum exhibits work inspired by Hurricane Helene Forty trillion. That’s a conservative estimate of how many gallons of rain drenched the Southeast…
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American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection
byIf you snoozed through art history in college and can’t recognize American Regionalism if Grant Wood’s dour couple smacked you in the face, here’s…
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
byMany people believe technology will one day obliterate all life on Earth. Seattle-based glass artist Ginny Ruffner isn’t necessarily one of those people. Organized…
Canvasing a Revolution
byHow early-20th-century landscape painters saved the Smokies Mist-shrouded vistas. Lush deciduous forests. Moonlit meadows. These are just some of the awe-inspiring scenes featured in…
Shifting Perceptions, Opening May 17
byn the late 1990s, Cara Romero went to the University of Houston to study cultural anthropology. But when she opened her textbooks, she was…
Student Artists View the Possibilities
byAstrid Salinger is a junior at the School of Inquiry & Life Sciences at Asheville, aka SILSA. But you’d never be able to guess…
Conceptual Art That’s Essential to Survival
byIn 1996, Luzene Hill sat down in front of an easel and began sketching bones. Femurs, skulls, ribs — her mind was overwhelmed by the…
A Different Stand on Lemonade
byIn 2013, Asheville-born interdisciplinary artist Sherrill Roland was charged with a crime he didn’t commit. Though later exonerated, Roland would spend 10 months in…
Art Instructor Helps Cut Flowers Reach Their Full Potential
bySusan McChesney came from Maine to WNC in 2014, having spent 40 years teaching others to draw. “A spinal injury left me with a…
Asheville Art Museum and BMCM+AC
byLaunched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,…