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Appalachia Now!

November 14, 2019–February 3, 2020
Appalachia Now! provides a regional snapshot of the art of our time—a collective survey of contemporary Southern Appalachian culture.
Romare Bearden, Sunset Express, 1984, collage on panel, 12 ⅝ × 14 inches. Museum purchase, 1985.04.1.29. © The Romare Bearden Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Intersections in American Art

Ongoing
One of two inaugural exhibitions is Intersections in American Art, the major reinstallation and reinterpretation of the Museum’s Collection in a much-enlarged gallery space.

Points of View

November 14, 2019–March 2, 2020
Points of View examines recent gifts to the photography collection and how the donors' interests become self-evident when their gifts are displayed together.

50 Years of Western North Carolina Glass

November 14, 2019–March 2, 2020
This exhibition highlights the beauty of the Moores' decades of collecting foundational artists in the Studio Glass Movement.

Collecting Craft & Recent Gifts

November 14, 2019–March 2, 2020
This gallery presents some of the new treasures to enter the Collection, with a special focus on craft.

Many Become One

Ongoing
Art and artists often encourage us to consider our place in the world. Artworks in the Windgate Foundation Atrium and Plaza bring many separate parts together to make a unified whole and offer a variety of possibilities for how to navigate our physical world on regional, national, and global levels.

The James Goode Collection from the Asheville Art Museum

Fall 2018-Fall 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-Fall 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-Fall 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.

Upcoming Exhibitions

2020 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

February 1–March 9, 2020
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.
Anne Lemanski, Deregulator, 2011, copper rod, novelty money, fabric, and artificial sinew on copper wire, 25 × 20 × 42 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by Robyn & John Horn, 2012.01.38 © Anne Lemanksi

A Telling Instinct

February 21–May 4, 2020
A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon & Contemporary Art juxtaposes Audubon prints with the work of artists who continue this tradition of animal allegories and metaphors in the 21st century.

Across the Atlantic

May 22–September 7, 2020
This extraordinary exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

Our Strength Is Our People

June 12–September 14, 2020
This exhibition surveys the life’s work of Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), the father of American documentary photography.

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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.
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.
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 late summer 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.
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Traveling Exhibitions

A photograph featured in the exhibition.

Ralph Burns

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

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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