The dreamy, softly glitchy song “Late Bloomer,” by local musician Jared Hooker — aka Tin Foil Hat — is well paired with a lush and surreal stop-motion film.
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Exhibition spotlights the work of local nonwhite artists
“Asheville Through Brown Eyes,” with work by Joseph Pearson, Jenny Pickens, Valeria Watson, Noel Jefferson, James Love, Viola Spells and Cleaster Cotton, opens Friday, Dec. 7, in the Asheville Area Art Gallery’s Thom Robinson and Ray Griffin Exhibition Space.
Video premiere: “Vesuvius” by Chuck Lichtenberger
In the surreal and sometimes disturbing video, Lichtenberger “does battle with a dog that morphs into a human, himself on the basketball court and tax documents,” the musician explains.
Adrienne Ammerman releases new album ‘The Hook’
Ammerman will launch the album at The Mothlight on Thursday, Nov. 29.
Our VOICE hosts its 17th annual Survivors’ Art Show
This year, the 17th for the event, features the work of local designer Denise Carbonell.
SINGLE RELEASE: “Free Yourself (AVL version)” by Free the Optimus
FTO performs at Timo’s House, 5 Biltmore Ave., on Friday, Nov. 16, at 9 p.m.
Single release: “No Jacket” by Jack Victor
Victor and his collaborators will hold a single release party for at The Mothlight on Saturday, Nov. 10.
Five-day photo+sphere pairs art and science
Eric Baden saw the opportunity to “take another issue of urgency, which has to do with care for the environment,” he says, “and the fact that, just like Asheville has a big craft community, there’s also a really important climate-based community.”
The Asheville Butoh Festival readies for its 12th season
The local festival runs Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 25-28, with three performances and two workshops.
New guided tour explores Asheville’s literary landscape
“Our goal was to showcase Asheville over the years through these different authors so [people] could see it from a slightly different perspective,” says Asheville Literary Tour co-founder Sarah Giavedoni.
Asya Colie mounts an exhibition inspired by Asheville and Cotignac, France
While in Cotignac, France, this summer, Colie had a show at Cercle des Arts, the gallery attached to her village’s 16th century church. Now back in Asheville, she is readying a collection that will hang in ananda hair studio for three months.
RAD Fest seeks to create a safe, equitable, community-oriented experience
The collection of artists slated to appear at the Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14 festival in the River Arts District is fringey, women-led, often queer-identifying, and less white-centric than the typical Western North Carolina music festival.
Van tour of historic barns, Oct. 19
Press release from Appalachian Barn Alliance: Beautiful fall colors will highlight the barns in the rural landscape. If you missed your chance to take a tour of historic barns in the Madison County area this summer, be sure to catch the last scheduled tour of 2018. The popular Appalachian Barn Alliance 12-passenger van tour for […]
Video release: “Henny Nights” by Spaceman Jones and The Motherships
The video drops just before the duo’s EP release show at The Mothlight on Friday, Oct. 5, with with Effigy, Sk the Novelist, Kingdom Kome and Musashi Xero.
Local videographer A.D. Weighs creates a series about difficult conversations
Episodes include topics such as racism, police misconduct, suicide, rape culture and toxic masculinity. “All the conversations are tough — it won’t be celebrity gossip,” Weighs says.
BMCM+AC opens its new location with a Jacob Lawrence exhibition
The exhibition, which opens on Friday, Sept. 28, not only examines the work of one of the most widely-regarded modern artists of the 20th century, but celebrates the relocation of BMCM+AC its new 120 College St. home.
Pedro Esqueda curates an exhibition of works by artists in recovery
‘New Vision, New Hope: Asheville Artists in Recovery,’ an exhibition of works by more than 20 local creatives who are navigating their own paths through rehabilitation, opens at the Asheville Area Arts Council on Friday, Sept. 7.
Single release: “My Own Stages” by Carly Taich
The track is part of Taich’s new project — a series of stand-alone songs that will eventually form her next album.
Duy Huynh captures fantasy and narrative on canvas
The artist will display about a dozen paintings as part of the group exhibition Reverie, which opens at Blue Spiral 1 on Thursday, Sept. 6.
The annual MSTMT fashion show empowers young women of color
That money generated from the fashion show funds programming for the 112 teens and pre-teens currently enrolled. MSTMT provides safe space for tough conversations, mentoring, meals, guidance on future planning, college tours, monthly outings and much more.
Local muralists paint the cancer center parking deck
Ian Wilkinson and other muralists will transform the parking deck over two weekends this month. “Doctors, patients and members of the public are invited to participate in a collaborative mural wall” on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, according to a press release.