Asheville Art Museum - North Carolina museum exhibiting 20th century American art

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Robert Morris’s Earth Projects
On view through May, 2025—The "Earth Project" series (1969), by Robert Morris, presents ten ideas for works of art shaped out of earth, atmospheric conditions, and built environments in the form of architectural plans.
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Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
On view through January 20—this exhibition imagines an apocalyptic landscape of withered plant forms that come to life when activated with augmented reality.
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier, 1979
On view through January 20—this exhibition explores the ideas of death and regeneration in nature, using video, sound, and projection on moving water to create a unique, immersive experience.
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Forces of Nature: Ceramics from the Hayes Collection
On view through March, 2025—this exhibition traces the historical, stylistic, and conceptual origins of work that either embraces or refuses the element of chance in ceramics, looking at modern and contemporary work made in Western North Carolina.
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Western North Carolina Glass: Selections from the Collection
Ongoing—this exhibition explores Western North Carolina’s importance in the history of American glass art. Several artists of the Studio Glass Movement came to the region, including its founder Harvey K. Littleton. Discover a variety of techniques and a willingness to push boundaries of the medium.
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Maud Gatewood’s “From the Lowgrounds”: Reflections on Change and Choice
November 5, 2024

Maud Gatewood’s From the Lowgrounds (1983)—a small acrylic landscape on canvas—captures the distinctive character of her childhood home in Caswell County, North Carolina with its

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Current Exhibitions

Ginny Ruffner

September 13, 2024–January 20, 2025
This exhibition imagines an apocalyptic landscape of withered plant forms that come to life when activated with augmented reality. In collaboration with animator and media artist Grant Kirkpatrick, Ruffner illuminates the delicate balance between nature and the artificial human-built world around us, putting forth an optimistic hope for the future: that technology can be a means to understand and help save the earth from environmental devastation

Western North Carolina Glass

June 28, 2023–Ongoing
Western North Carolina is important in the history of American glass art. Several artists of the Studio Glass Movement came to the region, including its founder Harvey K. Littleton. The Museum is dedicated to collecting American studio glass and within that umbrella, explores the work of Artists connected to Western North Carolina. A variety of techniques and a willingness to push boundaries of the medium can be seen in this selection of works from the Museum's Collection.
closeup of a carved wooden object, a component of the Forest Feels installation

Special Installation | Forest Feels

September 13, 2024–January 20, 2025
A response to the exhibition "Reforestation of the Imagination" by Ginny Ruffner, "Forest Feels" invites viewers to participate in two distinct realities of an art museum experience: to observe the work as it is in this moment, and also to change the work by contributing to its evolution. Located in the Wells Fargo Art PLAYce, viewers are invited to interact directly with the work, whether that means rearranging existing components, adding in new ones, or removing what is already there.