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Docents Tour Boone’s Turchin Center
BOONE, NC — A group of Asheville Art Museum Docents recently traveled to Boone’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University to learn more about that organization’s blend of new and historically important art of nationally and internationally renowned artists.

On December 3, eight docents and two Museum staff members made the 90-minute drive from Asheville to Boone to tour the newly renovated Center.

Upon arrival, the group was greeted by Turchin Center Director and Chief Curator Hank T. Forman and given a special tour of the two exhibition wings and family education wing all located in the heart of downtown Boone.

“The Turchin Center recently finished the final phase of an expansion and we wanted to see it now that it has been completed,” said Asheville Art Museum Adult Programs Manager Nancy Sokolove. “I think everyone loved the building, as well how the Center aims to showcase a mixture of established and up-and-coming artists.”

Lin Andrews, president of the Asheville Art Museum Docents, said she particularly enjoyed seeing the Center with the assistance of their helpful staff. “I had been to the Turchin Center many times before, but this was the first time I had a chance to meet Mr. Forman,” Andrews said. “He had so much knowledge, both about the artists and the processes they use to make their work. For us, one of the good things was that they had a drawing exhibition that was very different, but complementary to [the Asheville Art Museum’s current exhibition] Lines of Discovery. It amplified and added to our visual education about drawing and its place in contemporary art.”

The Asheville Art Museum Docents are dedicated volunteers who meet regularly to learn about art and teaching to serve as tour guides and educators for Museum visitors.

Docents aim to help visitors make connections between that knowledge and works of American art of the 20th and 21 centuries. Andrews said these trips, which occur once a semester, allow the group to further inform themselves about art so that they may continue the Museum’s educational message.

“The best thing about the Docents and a trip like this is you get a perspective on the work from such a wide variety of people,” she said. “Our Docents are diverse in age, careers and life experiences. The trips are a chance for us to share our opinions and share new artwork.”

Sokolove agreed these day trips definitely add to the service the Docents provide at the Museum.

“These events are not only good ways to build camaraderie among the group, but also broaden the members’ own education and art experience,” she said.

To learn more about becoming an Asheville Art Museum Docent, contact Adult Programs Manager Nancy Sokolove at 828.253.3227, ext. 120 or nsokolove@ashevilleart.org.

For more information on Boone’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, call 828.262.3017 or go to www.turchincenter.org.

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Docents from the Asheville Art Museum tour the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC on December 3, 2007.