[Untitled]: The Museum Blog

Evan Kafka creates portraits of live animals, ingeniously captured to appear as taxidermy heads in his Trophies series. Caught in a moment of suspended animation,

What is Museums Advocacy Day? Museums Advocacy Day marks the date where the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) sends its advocates to Washington D.C., educating

Assistant Curator Whitney Richardson talks about craft and helps us understand how a functional, everyday object (like a teapot) makes its way into an art

“I change the way people see everyday objects the same way advertisers change the way we see the world.” ~Willie Cole Willie Cole, a contemporary

Playing on the strangely human expressions of Weimaraner dogs, Wegman often employs his canine subjects to express a sense of coexisting deadpan humor and seriousness

The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to share that seven artists from the opening exhibition Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern

Born in Charlotte, NC, Romare Bearden (1914-1988) spent his youth in Harlem, when jazz was coming into its own as an art form. The improvisation,

The Asheville Art Museum has received a major grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize the Museum’s hidden Black Mountain

“Deregulator was made after the financial meltdown of 2008. There was a lot of talk about ‘regular Joes.’ The eagle represents our national symbol, and

The Asheville Art Museum has been located at Pack Square since 1992, but the Square has been functioning as the center of Asheville for over