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Artwork featured in the 2019 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2019 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

February 4-March 12, 2019
POP-UP EXHIBITION: The Asheville Art Museum is the regional host of the annual Scholastic Art juried competition for students in grades 7-12 from all across WNC.

The James Goode Collection from the Asheville Art Museum

Fall 2018–Spring 2019
POP-UP EXHIBITION: The making of pottery in North Carolina has a long history. Native American potters are known to have made pots from the start of the 16th century, and European colonizers of the 1700s arrived with knowledge of their local ceramic techniques.

Interwoven

Fall 2018–Spring 2019
POP-UP EXHIBITION: This exhibition collectively demonstrates innovations in the traditional art of basketry. The artists’ conceptual media vary between organically dyed reeds, stoneware ceramic, woven wire and even hand-made paper.

Looking Through

Fall 2018–Spring 2019
POP-UP EXHIBITION: Looking Through: Glass from the Asheville Art Museum considers glass as a medium of internal and external contemplation. These transparent glass works evoke a sense of inner worlds made visible.

Permanent Collection | Art Banners on Construction Fencing

Through Spring 2019
As the Asheville Art Museum is under major construction to build the new Asheville Art Museum in the heart of downtown Asheville, we have installed a series of banners on the fence that surrounds the construction at 2 South Pack Square.

Upcoming Exhibitions

In the Midst

March 26-April 30, 2019
POP-UP EXHIBITION: In the Midst: Environmental Imagery from the Asheville Art Museum illustrates the inherent grandeur and beauty of nature as well as the human impact on the environment.

Appalachia Now!

OPENING EXHIBITION: Summer 2019
Appalachia Now! provides a regional snapshot of the art of our time—a collective survey of contemporary Southern Appalachian culture.

Selections from the Collection

OPENING EXHIBITION: Summer 2019
One of two inaugural exhibitions under development is the major reinstallation and reinterpretation of the Museum’s Collection in a much-enlarged gallery space. A national team of scholars and experts in the field are working with the Museum to develop this new interpretation and exhibition installation.

Previous Exhibitions

Detail of a painting in the exhibition

Neighbors

July 6 - September 18, 2018
Neighbors: Local Work from the Asheville Art Museum features artists living and working in and near Asheville.

Red Hot in the Blue Ridge

May 19 - October 14, 2018
Red Hot in the Blue Ridge features glass from the Museum’s Collection. Glass as an art form emerged in Western North Carolina when several key artists established independent studios in the 1960s and began training students. Since then, the Museum has built its collection of exquisite glass.
Construction team member works on site.

Making It New

May 19 - October 14, 2018
As construction work continues on the NEW Asheville Art Museum at 2 S. Pack Square, we are busy planning for our grand re-opening in spring 2019!
Wood carvings featured in the exhibition.

Turning Traditions

March 10 - May 13, 2018
Edward, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop represent three generations of Southern woodturners whose minimalist works capture the warm beauty and explore the eccentricities of wood. Each artist crafts in his own style, from Ed’s large abstractions to Philip’s experiments with branch “mosaics” and Matt’s glassy finishes that reveal the story of the tree.

Crafting Abstraction

March 10 - May 13, 2018
Crafting Abstraction brings together a selection from the Museum’s Permanent Collection that highlights the importance of craft to the development of modernist abstraction in the United States.

2018 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

January 27-March 4, 2018
The Asheville Art Museum is the regional host of the annual Scholastic Art juried competition for students in grades 7-12 from all across WNC.
A work featured in the Unwrapped exhibition.

Unwrapped

October 28, 2017 - January 21, 2018
Every year since 1988, technology entrepreneur and avid collector Peter Norton commissions an artist to create an original work of art that is then produced in multiples and sent to friends and select art institutions.
Artwork featured in Home Land

Home Land

July 22 - October 22, 2017
Inspired by the Museum’s recent acquisition Home Land, a cutting-edge contemporary basket by Eastern Band Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn, this exhibition explores the connections that southeastern Native artists have to their ancestral homelands.
A poster featured in Hear Our Voice.

Hear Our Voice

May 20 - July 16, 2017
Hear Our Voice features a selection of posters organized by The Amplifier, a “visual media experiment dedicated to amplifying the voices of grassroots movements through art and community engagement.”
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Traveling Exhibitions

A photograph featured in the exhibition.

Ralph Burns

March 29-July 20, 2014
Ralph Burns has long been recognized as a documentary photographer whose images have captured the diverse and enigmatic nature of ritual and religion, and who has explored the subjective and often defining nature of belief, worship, and culture.

Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest

July 16 – December 10, 2010
Sallie Middleton has long been considered one of the most gifted painters of plants and animals. She possessed a remarkable eye for detail, a skilled hand to record what she saw and a keen imagination to shape her enchanted images.
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