aSHEville Museum Celebrates Valentines with Artist Meet and Greet

February 11, 2015   Valentine's Celebration with She Artristy at aSHEville Museum   Meet the women artists and artisans showcased at aSHEville Museum, including painters, jewelers, photographers, candle makers, and crafters. Support Asheville's women at this local artist meet and greet.

Get links for lodging, dining and area attractions on the Asheville NC Visitor Guide.
  aSHEville Museum is a women’s cultural museum with a mission to contribute to the creation of more just and equitable world through its collection of intimate exhibits which range from historic to contemporary in scope, and local to global. Core exhibits include: Appalachian Women, 100 Years of Sexism in Advertising, and A History of Hysteria. 

aSHEville Museum also houses a variety of rotating exhibits. The Museum gift shop offers art, crafts, and gift items made by talented local and regional women artists and fair-trade women-made items supporting women's organizations. The Museum is located at 35 Wall Street in downtown Asheville NC.

"Within the Lines" Exhbit, Reception and Panel Discussion

November 7, 2014  6 PM - 8 PM at HandMade in America, 125 S. Lexington Ave. Suite 101a, Asheville, NC - Reception and Panel Discussion for Within the Lines, Creative Perspectives on Wilderness.  Food and drink during the reception is provided by Dough Market and One World Brewing.  The panel discussions are moderated sessions with some of the region’s most significant writers, artists and thinkers on issues of natural heritage and conservation.

Each panel will feature comments by the panelists followed by an opportunity for those in the audience to ask questions. The reception begins at 6:00 PM with the panel discussions at 6:30 PM, and all are free and open to the public.

For more information on Within the Lines and the featured artists and panelists click here.

Sue Grier's Pottery Artist Reception

January 15, 5:30 - 8:00 PM at Beverly-Hanks Discovery Center in Biltmore Park Town Square, 1 Town Square Blvd, Asheville NC -  HandMade in America invites all to pottery artist Sue Grier's Artist Reception.

Sue is originally from New Mexico where she studied oil and arcrylic painting at New Mexico State University. After moving to South Carolina 20 years ago, she began to pursue her interest in clay. For years she worked in Columbia, SC as a production potter, attending workshops at Arrowmont and Penland. Sue had considered herself a self-taught potter until 2004 when she decided to attend Clemson University to pursue a MFA. After graduating, she took a part-time position teaching ceramics at Clemson where she taught for 6 years.
Sue Grier currently lives in Leicester, NC, where she has her studio and focuses on one-of-a-kind functional and decrotative pieces.  

For more information about Sue Grier please visit her website www.suegrierpottery.com.

For questions about the Artist Reception and visiting Sue's work at Beverly-Hanks Discovery Center contact Lindsey Mudge at lmudge@handmadeinamerica.org or (828) 252-0121 x303.

Gert more information about NC mountain artists on the NC Art Gallery and Crafts Guide.

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum Welcomes Artist Willliam Mangum

NC artist Bill Magnum

September 19 at 4:30  PM - Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (BRAHM) has invited North Carolina artist William Mangum, one of the most popular and respected watercolorists in the region, to be September's Third Thursday speaker
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Bill Magnum has produced more than 3,000 original paintings from his over thirty years of travels throughout North Carolina and abroad. Mangum's presentation "Celebrating Life through Art" is free to BRAHM members and $5 for non-members. 

Refreshments will follow the welcoming.

Ismini Samanidou Exhibit "TOPOGRAPHY" Opens this month at The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

January 18,  5-7 PM at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 1181 Broyles Rd. in Hendersonville NC - "Topography" Exhibit Opening and Lecture with Ismini Samanidou. Textile artist and designer Ismini Samanidou seeks to understand her encounters with beauty through crafting woven surfaces and installations. Utilizing both mechanical jacquard looms and hand weaving techniques, her creative process becomes a way to document her own story. She often photographs her travels and reinterprets them with thread. Themes of transience, decay, and history emerge through her poetic textiles.

Ismini Samanidou was born in Athens and trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, London. Her work involves designing and making textiles for exhibitions, commissions, and collaborations, focusing on the use of digital weaving technology and designer maker methods, touching on the boundaries of craft, art and design.

This exhibition is a partnership project between The Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts and The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design. A catalog to accompany the exhibition is published by the Crafts Study Centre.

January 16, 5:30 PM - WNC Textile Study Group Lecture by Ismini Samanidou: at  HandMade in America
125 S. Lexington Ave., Suite 101, Asheville NC.  Ismini Samanidou will discuss her practice and developing work, including her approach to and influences of travel experiences. Samanidou will include information on her exhibition, Topography.

Western Carolina University's Fine Art Museum Exhibit Reception

September 15  from 4 - 5 PM interview with artist John Lytle Wilson followed by a reception form 5-7 PM in the Fine Art Museum Atrium at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC. Wilson's current show at the Museum is "The Gods of the Machine", using animal and robot imagery as stand-ins for traditional human subjects, allowing him to explore issues like consciousness, free will and mortality.

The show continues through September 30. Western Carolina University is located at 199 Centennial Drive in Cullowhee, NC

Jack Capenter Retirement Party at John C Campbell Folk School

Jack Carpenter, who worked in the John C Campbell Folk School Craft Department for over 50 years, has announced his retirement. Help celebrate Jack's wonderful contributions to the Folk School at a reception Thursday, September 15 from 4:00- 5:30 PM in the Community Room of Keith House.

Come To Leicester Artists Reception and Studio Tour

August 12, 5:30 - 8 PM, HandMade in America Gallery at 125 South Lexington Ave., Suite 101 in Downtown Asheville - Come To Leicester Artists will  host a reception. See the beautiful artwork and meet some of the artists who created it. Refreshments will be provided.

After you see the exhibit, visit the studios! 2011 Come To Leicester Studio Tour; a free, self-guided tour of 26 studios throughout Leicester, NC that will be taking place Saturday and Sunday August 20-21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. For more information and a map of the tour, visit cometoleicester.com

Salamander Gallery "Meet the Artist" Wine and Cheese Reception

June 24, 6PM to 8 PM at The Salamander Gallery "Meet the Artist"  Wine and Cheese Reception. This is the Opening Reception for Johnny dean McCurry. Johnny dean's work will be on display all throughout the month of June.  Come meet the artist and enjoy his art and our "wine and cheese" reception.  The painting shown here is called "Grove" a 30"x 30" original acrylic beautifully framed ~ painted by Johnny dean McCurry. The Salamander Gallery is located at 127C W. Main Street in Burnsville, NC. 

Joe Miller Presents " With a Warm Handshake"

This Thursday (May 19) is a Blowing Rock Art & History Museum

THIRD THURSDAY

Joe Miller (of Cheap Joe's Art Stuff) will present his one-man show"With a Warm Handshake"
at 4 PM, BRAHM Office, (Martin House, 1098 Main Street)

~ a reception and refreshments will follow ~

Miller is an entrepreneur, artist and author. He holds the Dolphin Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Watercolor Society, and is a lifetime member of the Florida Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of North Carolina and the High Country Watermedia Society. He has taught watercolor workshops across the country and is the author of two books: Joe's Journal, The Art and Tales of a Sojourner and Old Watercolorists Never Die, They Just Wet Their Sheets  -   Joe also is the illustrator for the book, Thrice Told Tales.

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 Third Thursdays are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, contact the Museum at 828.295.9099