The Artery: Support for the Artists Resource Center, local artists and the community

In 2011 the Artist Resource Center was formed, a place where artists can take basic businesses knowledge classes, such as book-keeping or web marketing, to help market themselves and their art.

The Asheville Area Art Council's new executive Director Kitty Love hopes that the Artery (the multi-purpose exhibition and event facility and headquarters to the Asheville Area Arts Council on Depot Street) will help the Artists Resource Center vision stay vital, for local artists and the community. The Artery is also open to the public as an event space, a gathering spot for artists to have classes and for the community connect and learn.

Love's idea for the AAAC is twofold: to be a cultural Rolodex for the arts industry and visitors, and, to connect them to the resources and experiences they need. The Artery has three computers for available for use and sufficient space to host events, classes and discussions. Kitty Love's forte is  building bridges between the arts community and the business community by advocating the arts in Asheville and showing the potential of economic development within the arts.