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Rural arts nonprofits navigate distinct pandemic challenges
Trillium Arts debuts in Mars Hill, while Toe River Arts pivots to serve Mitchell and Yancey counties.
Words of Gratitude From North Carolina
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
Open Hearts Art Center, which serves adults with challenges, celebrates public mural debut
Open Hearts Art Center, a non-profit art education program located in Asheville’s South Slope which serves adults with a variety of challenges, launched and celebrated the opening of its public mural on Sunday, Nov. 22. The mural covers the entire outside of the building wall above the center’s fro…
Vance Monument, honoring Confederate-era governor, should be removed, task force votes
The Vance Monument in downtown Asheville has been wrapped in a shroud while a task force is formed to decide its fate. Angeli Wright, awright@citizen-times.com
Jenny Pickens Paints To Remember The Mother She’s Never Known
Artists often clean their studios before visitors arrive. But inside her Swannanoa home, Jenny Pickens ’ painting studio is always immaculate. The first
Wilma Dykeman Residence Comes Alive - TribPapers
The longtime Asheville residence of Wilma Dykeman, one of Appalachia’s foremost writers and conservationists, will become home to a new UNC Asheville Writers-in-Residence Program.
Art-Rich Asheville Gets a New Museum Building | National Review
And it’s a big hit, expressing the spirit of the community.
Word On The Street Now More Than Words For Asheville Youth Of Color
It’s a Saturday afternoon at Asheville’s Arthur Edington Center, inside what was once an elementary school classroom converted into the well-lived-in home
Artist chosen for public art installation at renovated ART Transit Center | The City of Asheville
Renovations at the ART Transit Center will be enhanced with the installation of public art in the waiting room and ticket area. A team representing City staff, ART Operations staff, Better Buses Together and the Public Art and Cultural Commission have chosen Asheville-based artist Wyatt Grant to d…
Local arts groups displaced by pandemic seek new spaces
The Porch, Street Creature Puppets and Asheville Improv Collective are among the area organizations that have been displaced since March.

 

Asheville Art Museum and BMCM+AC – Asheville Made
Launched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,...

 

You’re Never Too Young to Start Obsessing Over Your Art Collection – Asheville Made
Michael and Hanna Manes are decades younger than most of their art-collecting peers, and already their nine-month-old son, Harvey, is involved in the family...

 

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