Asheville Art Museum

In this small-group/in-person workshop, learn the basics of perspective drawing and urban sketching; explore several approaches and styles of travel journaling; experiment with pen, ink, and watercolors; and take your sketchbook outdoors to begin a new journey.

Until it’s safe to travel together for our popular Art Travels day, overnight, national, and international trips, we’re thrilled to continue virtual trips for armchair travelers each first Thursday evening! This month, we travel to the Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, MA.

Join Doris Potash, master docent, for an interactive conversation about three artworks in our current exhibitions Golden Hour and Artistic Tribute.

Visit our galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration before joining us in the Wells Fargo Art PLAYce to create! Each Friday afternoon for the month of August, use a variety of materials to create your own unique piece of jewelry.

In this small-group/in-person workshop, experience the art of Oshibana: creating art with pressed flowers and leaves.

A native of Durham, NC, Jeremy Loeb embraced his lifelong love of piano when he launched his second career as a musician. Now living in…

Join Kay Dunn and Ruth Shedwick-Bryant, touring docents, for an interactive conversation about three artworks in the Museum’s Collection.

Visit our galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration before joining us in the Wells Fargo Art PLAYce to create! Each Friday afternoon for the month of August, use a variety of materials to create your own unique piece of jewelry.

Visit the galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then join us in the studio to experiment with a variety of movement-based art-making techniques, inspired…

Join Hilary Schroeder, assistant curator, for a conversation about the art and science of environmental change with Benjamin Dimmitt and Matthew McCarthy, PhD.

As a valued Museum Member, we invite you to join us for the exclusive opening of our newest exhibition: Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience…

Join Hank Bovee, touring docent, for an interactive conversation about three artworks in the Museum’s Collection and special exhibition Golden Hour

Visit our galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration before joining us in the Wells Fargo Art PLAYce to create! Each Friday afternoon for the month of August, use a variety of materials to create your own unique piece of jewelry.

In this small-group/in-person workshop, create a finished artwork that represents and empowers your own self-affirmation through thoughtfully chosen media, colors, and words.

It’s not a concert—it’s a party! Celebrate the last lazy days of summer at our summer benefit event. Live music, cocktails, and dancing bring to…

Today’s program for adults with memory loss and their care partners is led by Doris Potash, master docent.

Marilynn Seits is a performer, composer, and jazz piano teacher. She has played at the Waldorf Astoria and Plaza Hotels in New York City, in…

Join Megan Pyle, touring docent, for an interactive conversation about three artworks in the Museum’s Collection.

Visit our galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration before joining us in the Wells Fargo Art PLAYce to create! Each Friday afternoon for the month of August, use a variety of materials to create your own unique piece of jewelry.

Visit the Museum’s galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then join us in the studio to explore weaving with variety of materials including yarn,…

ArtCurious is art history as you’ve never read it, stories that will shock and entertain, make you question what you thought you knew, and introduce you to unknown characters and hidden histories, conspiracy theories, scandal, and intrigue.

A native of Durham, NC, Jeremy Loeb embraced his lifelong love of piano when he launched his second career as a musician. Now living in…

Join Hank Bovee, touring docent, for an interactive conversation about four artworks in the Museum’s Collection.

A photographer travels the world in order to document the remaining vestiges of world’s fairs across the globe, while searching for balance between being an artist and raising a family.

At the 1968 Olympics, US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists from the podium during the medal ceremony as the American anthem…

Written in his characteristic “mesostics” (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in which…

A native of Durham, NC, Jeremy Loeb embraced his lifelong love of piano when he launched his second career as a musician. Now living in…

Experience the art of Oshibana: creating art with pressed flowers and leaves.

In this October Files volume, essays and interviews from Dawoud Bey, Huey Copeland, Kimberly Drew, Coco Fusco, Thelma Golden, and Deborah Willis, among others, explore…

A native of Durham, NC, Jeremy Loeb embraced his lifelong love of piano when he launched his second career as a musician. Now living in…

In 1918, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with…