Asheville Art Museum Discussion "On Motherwell"

May 10, 7:00 PM at The Asheville Art Museum (East Wing, Upper Level) - The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell's Graphic Works. A personal friend and colleague of artist Robert Motherwell during his lifetime, Dr. Mary Ann Caws has written a number of biographies on the artist, including Robert Motherwell: With Pen and Brush. Museum Members and visitors are invited to join a special discussion held in conjunction with current exhibition.

Dr. Caws is a Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her many accolades include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well serving as president of the Modern Language Association and the Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism.

The discussion will be followed by a book signing and reception in the Museum Atrium. $5 for Museum Members, $7+ Museum Admission for non-members. Please call 828.253.3227, ext. 120 for more details.

 

Image credit: Robert Motherwell, "Elegy Study I", 1989, lithograph on light brown Tyler Graphics, Ltd handmade paper, 39.25 x 61 inches. Courtesy of the Dedalus Foundation. Art copyright Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum hosts a “Main Street Mingle”

May 3, 5 PM - 6:30 PM - Main Street Event: Merchants Invited to Museum 'Mingle'. The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum will host a “Main Street Mingle” for downtown merchants and businesses prior to the busy tourist season. Main Street business owners are invited to attend the event, browse the Museum’s new exhibit and learn about upcoming programs and events. For more information, call (828) 295-9099 ext. 3001 or e-mail info@blowingrockmuseum.org. Refreshments from Jake's will be served.

Ready for Prime Time, a preview party by The Asheville Art Museum

January 26, 7 PM - CityMac and Village Antiques at Biltmore, 755 Biltmore Ave, Biltmore Village in Asheville NC - The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present Ready for Prime Time, a preview party celebrating Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition, the inaugural exhibition of the New Media Gallery scheduled to open in the Museum's newly-expanded East Wing in March 2012.

In the fall of 2011, the Museum invited submissions from North Carolina artists working with screen-based, new media art work, such as video art, experimental animation and time-based media, to be featured in the inaugural exhibition of the New Media Gallery. One work by each submitting artist will be screened during Ready for Prime Time.

The New Media Gallery will be the first of its kind in WNC, offering innovative artists including those featured in Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition the opportunity to share their work with the community while developing new audiences and gaining recognition for their contribution to the modern art scene. The Museum eagerly anticipates the artistic developments made possible through the use of this exciting new gallery space.

Ready for Prime Time is hosted by CityMac and Village Antiques at Biltmore, with wine generously provided by Appalachian Vintner

"Between the Folds" Film Screening this weekend at the Asheville Art Museum

 

January 14 - 15, 2 PM, Asheville Art Museum, 2 South Pack Square, Asheville NC - Film Screening: Between the Folds - Free with Membership or Museum Admission 

Often considered nothing more than folding a square sheet of paper into a Japanese crane, the numerous and unimaginable uses of origami are examined in this fascinating documentary.  

Between the Folds profiles ten individuals, ranging from a sculptor who folds caricatures, to a scientist who received a MacArthur Genius Award for his computational origami research.

Learn more and watch clips at PBS.org >>

Free Admission to the Asheville Art Museum on Wednesday

January 4 - Asheville Art Museum, 2 South Pack Square in Asheville NC offers free admission from 3 PM - 5 PM the first Wednesday of each month. Current shows and exhibits at the Museum include "The New Materiality"; the Permanent Collection, The Elemental Arts: Air - Earth - Fire - Water; A Tisket A Tasket: Appalachian, Cherokee and Low Country Baskets ( show ends Jan 8).

Blowing Rock Art and History (BRAHM) Celebrates the Holidays

December 11, 2 PM - 4 PM at the BRAHM, 159 Chestnut Street (corner of Chestnut and Main)
Blowing Rock, NC -  BRAHM celebrates the holidays with a community Open House with FREE Admission to the Museum and light seasonal refreshments, including stolen from Stick Boy Bread Company.

A Gingerbread House Workshop ($10/$9 for members) will begin at 2:30 in the Education Center. Houses will be no-bake with a graham cracker base and all materials will be provided. Pre-registration for the workshop is required by December 8. For more information or to register, call (828) 295-9099 ext. 3006 or e-mail lou@blowingrockmuseum.org.

A Day of Color at the Asheville Art Museum

October 23, 2011 (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.)  Enjoy A Day of Color at the Asheville Art Museum. This very special Up for Discussion (artist talk) and Family Art pARTy! is a wonderful way for individuals and groups to spend an afternoon in the Museum, engaging with art and artists currently featured in Color Study , Talks will be followed by color experiments in the studio space.

Ages middle school through adult will enjoy hands-on art activities and light refreshments. The event is free for Museum Members or included with Museum admission.   RSVP to the Asheville Art Museum  event page on Facebook.

The Asheville Art Museum is located at 2 South Pack Square in Asheville NC

Asheville Art Museum Art Break: Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA

Sept 16,  12 Pm - 1 PM  at The Asheville Art Museum, 2 South Pack Square in Asheville NC -  Art Break Series: Artists at Work - American Printmakers and the WPA  The September 16th Art Break will feature Art Historian, Julie Levin Caro. Art Break is a series of gallery talks and presentations designed to inform and engage you in dialogue with members of our Curatorial and Education Departments, Docents and special guests.

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.

BRAHAM 3rd Thursday moved to August 24

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum - This month's Third Thursday has been MOVED to THURSDAY,AUGUST 25.  Jonathan Stuhlman, curator of American art at the Mint Museum, will present "How to Read a Painting" at 4 p.m. in the BRAHM office,  upstairs in the Martin House (1098 Main Street). A reception and refreshments will follow.

Jonathan Stuhlman is the curator of American Art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte. He is a co-curator of the Mint Uptown's current exhibit "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland." In "How to Read a Painting," Stuhlman will help art lovers learn to understand what artists hope to convey while continuing to appreciate their work from a purely aesthetic viewpoint.  For information about Third Thursdays, call 828.295.9099.

Asheville Art Museum August Events

Saturday + Sunday, August 6 + 7  

(2:00 p.m. daily)

Film Screenings @ the Museum:   

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

WNC Art Resource Center (4th floor of the Museum) 

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

Tuesday, August 9 (3:00 - 5:00 p.m.)

Discussion Bound:

The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

Friday, August 12 (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)

Lunchtime Art Break:

Color Study

Led by Cole Hendrix, Assistant Curator

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

Friday, August 26 (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)

Lunchtime Art Break:

Join us for a docent-led tour of the Museum's Permanent Collection. 

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

Sunday, August 28 (3:00 p.m.)

Panel Discussion:

Art Working

Free with Membership or Museum Admission  

 Join us as we hear from an expert panel of arts professionals and artists about the role of government in art, the history of the Works Progress Administration in public and private sector grant-making, and how to survive as an artist today.