“My cousins and I believe Martha and Jane were smiling when Mel received a MacArthur award.”
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“My cousins and I believe Martha and Jane were smiling when Mel received a MacArthur award.”
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.”
Along with exhibitions, concerts, readings, dance performances and a ceramics sale, Arts Fest also offers installations and presentations aimed at engaging students and the broader Asheville community.