The Asheville Art Museum invites all to come to their opening reception for the new exhibition Heritage & Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm, featuring the works of photographer Ken Abbott, on Friday, July 24.
The exhibition showcases approximately 40 images, as well as a selection of historic photos and artifacts, from Abbott’s Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project, and will run from July 18 through October 11.
Abbott will be releasing Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm, his book of photographs (and essays by Rob Neufeld) at the event. Signed copies will be available for purchasing.
The event runs from 5-7 p.m, and Abbott will be giving a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m.
Light refreshments and beverages will also be available to participants during the event.
Press Release from Jennifer Swanson, communications manager for the Asheville Art Museum:
Asheville Art Museum Hosts Opening Reception, Gallery Talk for Heritage & Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm
Friday, July 24, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ASHEVILLE—The Asheville Art Museum is hosting an opening reception for the new exhibition Heritage & Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm on Friday, July 24 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. At 5:30 p.m., Ken Abbott, the photographer whose work is featured in the exhibition, will give a gallery talk. The evening also celebrates the release of Abbott’s book of photographs (and essays by Rob Neufeld) titled Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm. The book will be for sale and Abbott will be present to sign copies. Light refreshments and beverages will be available.
Heritage & Home features approximately 40 images, as well as a selection of historic photos and artifacts, from photographer Ken Abbott’s Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project and runs from July 18 through October 11.
After discovering the old Sherrill’s Inn in 2004 while chaperoning his daughter’s preschool field trip to Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Abbott, a newcomer to Western North Carolina, spent the next several years photographing the Fairview, NC house and family. Sherrill’s Inn, a stage stop and drover’s stand along an important trade route to Rutherfordton, NC and parts east, became the private home and farm of Jim and Elizabeth McClure in 1916. Jim, a distinguished Protestant minister, started the Farmer’s Federation in the early 1920s, and Elizabeth, a painter educated in Paris prior to WWI, set about creating a home and gardens at the old Inn. After almost 100 years of busy family life, the home and working farm have become an important center for the Fairview community, as well as a monument to Elizabeth’s sense of the importance of beauty in daily life.
Programs held in conjunction with the exhibition include:
SOIREE at Hickory Nut Gap Farm
with music, food and a tour
Saturday, August 29, 5-8 p.m.PHOTO EXPERIENCE at Hickory Nut Gap Farm with Ken Abbott
Saturday, September 19, 8:30–11:30 a.m.FARM CONSERVATION LECTURE with William Hamilton
Thursday, September 24, 6 p.m.
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