Three and a half decades of taxpayer-funded and city-organized fanfare and fury for an annual festival celebrating the region’s art, music and cuisine set amidst a backdrop fire with social, business and financial love and despair came to end on Sunday afternoon. Bele Chere was 35.
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Unrace down the French Broad
The Media Arts Project offers a different type of lecture and experience on Saturday.
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There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what constitutes a permanent collection, according to Nancy Holmes. For Holmes, the long-time exhibition organizer at Tryon’s Upstairs Artspace, a true art collection has integrity and scope, rather than aimlessly rambling across a living room wall. Or put another way, it needs to have point. “It’s different than just […]
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The “Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts,” ILSSA for short, has over 200 members from 28 states and 5 countries. They’re artists and artisans, crafters and creators bound by a common thread: they all make artwork with outdated practices and technologies. Their inefficiencies and eccentricities are self-identified, boasted really. And it’s all for […]
Practically impractical: celebrating the scenic routes of artistry
From Friday, July 5 to Sunday, July 7, ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts) members will gather in Asheville to celebrate five years of artistic obscurity during the first-ever ILSSA Convergence, a weekend-long conference, studio tour and exhibition series.
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The Media Arts Project is now accepting submissions for their Community Arts Grants. The grants will award up to $1,200 to two projects designed by WNC artists or groups of artists. Each of the works will premier at next year’s HAPPENING, an annual arts event and fundraiser produced by Black Mountain College Museum and Arts […]
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It’s likely that you haven’t heard of Harry Seidler. That is, unless you’ve studied Australian architecture and the history of the Bauhaus-turned-Harvard/Yale faculty. Seidler was also among the waves of artists and architects that made the pilgrimage to Black Mountain College to study with Josef Albers. Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design, a new […]
Windgate gift enables Warren Wilson to jumpstart its crafts program
The charitable foundation offered a similar $2.1 million to UNC-Asheville in the late-aughts, but rescinded it after fundraising efforts failed to manifest.
Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design
The exhibition, which takes an intimate look at some of the pivotal moments in Seidler’s upbringing and the relationships forged with those around him, opens tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center. Photo of Walter Gropius and Harry Seidler.
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A new exhibition in Firestorm Café & Books approaches the news with a different pace. Asheville artists Chelsea Ragan and Adam Void’s dual exhibition features works that use printmaking methods to replicate traditional news-media aesthetics, that is to say the “paper,” not the screen. New Prints/Newsprints*Black Male/Blackmail: D.I.Y. Political Printmaking, opens Friday, June 7 from […]
Appalachian Trail art show opens tonight at Blue Spiral
The show is a collaboration between the gallery and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and features a variety of works that showcase life on the trail.
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A small, cement-floored gallery just off the waterfront in downtown Hudson, N.Y., is currently showing work from an all-female, all-Asheville roster of artists. Les Demoiselles d’Asheville, curated by Asheville artist Connie Bostic, adds to the growing number of homegrown exhibitions traveling outside of WNC. The exhibition features letterpress works from Bridget Elmer, collages from Nicole […]
State of the Arts: The Philadelphia story
You won’t find King Charles sporting Cher’s haircut, or any other ornate, high-stepping and wig and white-tight-wearing royalty in The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Works Drawn from the Academy. But you will see an array of modernized strangers — casual, poised and even intimidating. And it’s better this way. Because when you don’t know the […]
Museum hosts its second Fine Art Print Fair this weekend
Saturday and Sunday are dedicated to prints and printmakers at the Asheville Art Museum.
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L.A.A.F.F. — Love Asheville Arts and Fun Festival. Though the event will stay on the eclectic thoroughfare that gave LAAFF its original name, “Lexington Avenue” has been officially dropped from the festival’s title. Once a fundraiser for the nonprofit Arts2People and its programs, the festival lost enough money last fall to put its future in […]
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The decals never came off the doors after the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas moved out of its Rankin Avenue location. But that’s OK. In a way, the new tenant is the old tenant. Asheville artist and Fine Arts League founder Ben Long is moving back in after years of vacancy. In the weeks […]
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This is second of a two-part series about Asheville’s art market. The first article appeared March 26 and discussed Asheville artists taking their work elsewhere to find new exhibition outlets, audiences and collectors. Art collectors don’t necessarily set out to become art collectors. That’s to say, most started at one piece, only to wind up […]
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The Ice House has been gone for a few weeks now, leaving behind only a smokestack and a dirt lot. The building had been a hub for transients, neighbors in the River Arts District said, and demanded a swift demolition of the unsecured building after a man was murdered there in October. Asheville City Council […]
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Ambassadors of Asheville’s art scene took up residency in Atlanta for the past two months. Anna Jensen opened a solo exhibition at the Dockside Gallery and Gabriel Shaffer followed with a solo opening at Gallery 1526, a multifaceted arts collective in Candler Park. And over in Atlanta’s Armour Industrial District, a group of seven Asheville-based […]
Scavenging for artifacts
Charleston-born and Baltimore-based artist A.B. Moore has pieced together a state-wide scavenger hunt called “Mudlark Highway” that comes to Asheville tomorrow.
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A new show at UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union Gallery has revived a conversation some might have thought improbable in Asheville — that of artistic censorship. It’s even resulted in an upcoming panel discussion on the show’s theme and of violence, sexuality and the comparison of artistic intention and censorship. Asheville artists Valeria Watson-Doost and Jeremy […]