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Jared Wheatley’s mural project seeks to stimulate conversations between Native and non-Native people.

AAAC Executive Director Katie Cornell discusses the latest candidate survey and the 2020 edition’s impact on local policies.

Although Buncombe County doles out a good deal of cash to local nonprofits that align with its strategic goals — roughly $10.5 million, not counting federal pandemic relief funding, in the current fiscal year — none of that money is specifically earmarked toward supporting local arts and culture. At their April 26 work session, commissioners explored the idea of adding a dedicated budget item for that sector.

Festival season returns this spring and summer, so we rounded up 18 regional festivals that will be returning (or debuting) in the Asheville area for 2022.

With roughly 250 works by some of today’s most visible artists, local collectors Randy Shull and Hedy Fischer discuss the future of their unintended collection.

This five-part audio series explores the fast-moving trend of artists and investors diving into the digital art market connected to cryptocurrency.

Asheville’s omission from a recent Best Music Cities study prompts questions from local industry leaders.

Was bluegrass born in a western North Carolina radio station in the late 1930s?

Experience these black-owned and operated attractions through the illustrations of the local artist.

Riding a wave of rapid growth, Asheville Adventure Company wants to help transform Amboy Road into the city's outdoor recreation hub, turning a riverside property into a base of operations and outdoor music venue in partnership with The Grey Eagle.

Producer and vocalist Ryan “RnB” Barber discusses the high costs and low moments that come with releasing an album and music video.

Asheville’s Urban Trail is said to be a “walking tour of [downtown] art, parks, and history,” but last Spring, when UNC Asheville “Oral History for Social Change” students were asked to analyze the current trail (designed 1989) and propose updates to the who, what, how represented in the story of Asheville, the group suggested some key changes.

The 2022 Connect Beyond Festival takes place April 22 and 23. We’ve got the scoop on this homegrown fest that’s more SXSW than Coachella.

Four months out from the fire that devastated the Sly Grog Lounge in Asheville, the venue will host its first onsite shows.

An Asheville nonprofit is making art accessible. Janet Taylor said the idea came to her in 1998. Caption: Asheville nonprofit gives at-risk and homeless folks platform to create, sell art. “I was walking with my girls in downtown Austin and there was a homeless guy there that had a little ashtray th…

We chatted with five area artists about how NFTs — aka non-fungible tokens — are they relevant to the local art scene.

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI) and Asheville Art Museum have been awarded the North Carolina Museums Council’s 2021 Award of Excellence for the collaborative exhibition A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary in Contemporary Art.

Story Parlor, Asheville’s newest cooperative arts space, opens to the public on Friday, April 29. Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour.