Showing posts with label ArtBreak at the Asheville Art Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ArtBreak at the Asheville Art Museum. Show all posts
January 7, 2016
Art Break at the Asheville Art Museum
January 8, 2016 at 12 PM at the Asheville Art Museum, 2 S Pack Square in downtown Asheville NC - Art Break: Cathryn Griffin.
Free with membership or Museum admission.
Come visit the Museum for an informal gallery talk that will both inform and engage you in dialogue with special guest Jon Jicha, Exhibition Curator and Professor, from Western Carolina University. Jicha will discuss the exhibition, Somewhere Between Here and There: Cathryn Griffin.
September 17, 2015
Weekend Events at The Asheville Art Museum
September 18, 12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunchtime Art Break - Wegman The Museum presents Lunchtime Art Breaks, 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.
A member of the Museum's staff will give a gallery tour of William Wegman: Cubism and Other-isms. Free with membership or Museum admission.
September 19, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Photo Experience at Hickory Nut Gap Farm Join photographer Ken Abbott on a photographic exploration of the historic Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Abbott's own photos, taken at the farm, are currently on view in the exhibition Heritage and Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm and are featured in his recent publication Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm.
Abbott received his MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1987, and spent 15 years as chief photographer for the University of Colorado at Boulder. He moved to Asheville with his family in 2002, and has pursued independent art projects including an extensive documentary of Mrs. Hyatt's Oprahouse, a gathering of musicians and devoted fans meeting weekly in the garage behind the house since the 1950s. Abbott also photographed businesses, people and buildings in the old Asheville stockyards area, prior to its recent transition into the new brewery for New Belgium Brewing Company. Abbott received an Artists Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council for the Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project in 2006.
Participants should bring their own camera. Please dress appropriately for the weather and light hiking. To register call the Museum at 828.253.3227. $25 for Members; $35 for Non-Members.
September 20 at 3:00 p.m. Pianoforte Recital in Sol LeWitt Gallery Pianoforte alumni John Cobb and Alexander Schwarzkopf will perform selections by Bartok, Cage, Copeland, Crumb, Gershwin, Ives, Schoenberg and Steinbach. While we have had the pleasure of having each of the pianists perform at Pianoforte recitals, this is the first time they will be performing together. Please call the Museum at 828.253.3227 for reservations. $8 + tax for Members ($7 children) $16 + tax (includes Museum admission) for Non-Members ($15 children).
The Asheville Art Museum is located at 2 South Pack Square in downtown Asheville NC.
September 19, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Photo Experience at Hickory Nut Gap Farm Join photographer Ken Abbott on a photographic exploration of the historic Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Abbott's own photos, taken at the farm, are currently on view in the exhibition Heritage and Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm and are featured in his recent publication Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm.
Abbott received his MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1987, and spent 15 years as chief photographer for the University of Colorado at Boulder. He moved to Asheville with his family in 2002, and has pursued independent art projects including an extensive documentary of Mrs. Hyatt's Oprahouse, a gathering of musicians and devoted fans meeting weekly in the garage behind the house since the 1950s. Abbott also photographed businesses, people and buildings in the old Asheville stockyards area, prior to its recent transition into the new brewery for New Belgium Brewing Company. Abbott received an Artists Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council for the Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project in 2006.
Participants should bring their own camera. Please dress appropriately for the weather and light hiking. To register call the Museum at 828.253.3227. $25 for Members; $35 for Non-Members.
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| Pianoforte Recital, photo courtesy of the Asheville Art Museum |
September 20 at 3:00 p.m. Pianoforte Recital in Sol LeWitt Gallery Pianoforte alumni John Cobb and Alexander Schwarzkopf will perform selections by Bartok, Cage, Copeland, Crumb, Gershwin, Ives, Schoenberg and Steinbach. While we have had the pleasure of having each of the pianists perform at Pianoforte recitals, this is the first time they will be performing together. Please call the Museum at 828.253.3227 for reservations. $8 + tax for Members ($7 children) $16 + tax (includes Museum admission) for Non-Members ($15 children).
The Asheville Art Museum is located at 2 South Pack Square in downtown Asheville NC.
March 17, 2015
Asheville Art Museum Lunchtime (Moz)Art Break this week
March 20, 2015: LUNCHTIME (MOZ)ART BREAK at The Asheville Art Museum
Lunchtime Art Breaks are a series of
gallery talks designed to inform and engage you in dialogue with members of
staff. For Asheville Amadeus, Asheville Symphony Director David Whitehill will
join with a member of the Museum’s curatorial staff to “dissect” works of art.
Participants will learn how to analyze both a work of art and a musical work by
Mozart. Free with membership or Museum admission
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