Press release:
Downtown First Friday Art Walks Kick Off April 1
Asheville Art Museum offers pay-as-you-wish admission
from 5:00–8:00 p.m. on First FridaysASHEVILLE — Finally, the weather is warming and the Downtown Asheville Art District’s First Friday Art Walks are back just in time. Visitors enjoying an evening stroll downtown can stop in more than 23 different museums and galleries, including the Asheville Art Museum, on the first Friday of each month starting April 1. With a variety of special events, exhibition openings, artist talks and more, these art walks are a fantastic opportunity to see what the downtown arts community has to offer.
On First Fridays, the Asheville Art Museum offers pay-as-you-wish admission from 5:00-8:00 p.m. For the first Art Walk of the year on April 1, the Museum will be hosting a film screening of the documentary Free Radicals starting at 5:30 p.m. The film provides a vivid and eye-opening introduction to avant-garde cinema, one of the most important yet marginalized realms of filmmaking.
Free Radicals includes rare interviews with some of the most important filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition, as well as several films in their entirety. The film will be introduced by the co-founder of Mechanical Eye Microcinema, Charlotte Taylor, and it will be followed by a Q&A session with the director, Pip Chodorov. The film’s duration is 82 minutes.
The Asheville Art Museum will continue to offer special events and pay-as-you-wish admission from 5:00–8:00 p.m. in conjunction with First Friday Art Walks through December.
To learn more, visit ashevilleart.org or downtownashevilleartdistrict.org.
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