Asheville art Museum Update

Friday, August 26, 2011 (12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m.)    Lunchtime Art Break: Docent-Led Tour of works from the   Permanent Collection Free with Membership or Museum Admission A Docent-led tour of works on view from the Museum's Permanent Collection, currently comprised of more than 3,000 works of American art ranging from the 20th to 21st centuries, including works of significance to Western North Carolina and the Southeast. Learn more about the Permanent Collection here Image Credit: Ke Francis, Three Friends: Loggerhead, Albino Catfish and Magic Moon, 2001, woodcut, 23.75 x 24.5 inches. Gift of Delphia Lamberson and Hoke Smith Holt. Asheville Art Museum Collection. 2002.01.05.65.    Also Save the Date for the opening of the next Permanent Collection exhibition  being installed in the second floor galleries of the Museum, titled The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire | Water. This exhibition opens on September 2, 2011. Learn more here.   Sunday, August 28, 2011 (3:00 p.m.)      Panel Discussion: Art Working  Free with Membership or Museum Admission Image credit: Carlos Anderson, Man and His Monuments, ca.1935, lithograph, 15 x 11.25 inches. Gift of Thelma Lowenstein. Asheville Art Museum Collection. 1993.08.04.61. Art Working will provide a lively afternoon discussion of the role of government in art, the history of the Works Progress Administration and its legacies in public and private sector grant-making, and how to survive as a working artist today. Guest panelists include public art consultant, Janet Kagan, Arts2People Executive Director, Kitty Love, as well as artist and Assistant Professor of Art at UNCA, Mark Koven.