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…
Hurricane Helene
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…
Cut, Paste, Heal
byArt series helps community heal post-Helene When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina, it reshaped both the land and our collective psyche. “I…
From Destruction to Creation
byIn those long, shapeless days after Hurricane Helene, Asheville mixed-media artist Li Newton says she “moved through the chaos on automatic — shutdown from reality.” Existing…
Postdiluvian
byIn the days leading up to Hurricane Helene, Asheville artist Chris Jehly didn’t need to watch the news to know danger was imminent. A…
Tracing the Tempest
byMultidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Kira Burksy didn’t sleep well the night Hurricane Helene hit. Instead, she sat wide awake as 90-mile-per-hour winds toppled mighty…
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…
Shuttered, But Not Forgotten
byHurricane Helene unleashed catastrophic devastation that will one day be etched into history books. And when those books are written, Sarah Jones Decker’s hauntingly…
Staying Strong
by“It’s just heartbreaking,” abstract painter Kevin Andrew says of the catastrophic flooding that occurred in the River Arts District as a result of Hurricane…
Kindness in the Chaos
byIn the wake of Hurricane Helene, Bakersville artist Lori Brook Johnson noticed many alarming things: the thick smell of gasoline, rushing floodwaters, uprooted pines…