Welcome to the Museum! Our new smARTguide is a great way to learn more about artists, artworks, and exhibitions in our galleries. It complements information found in wall text and also provides suggestions for looking and discussion.
As you use the smARTguide, be mindful of visitors moving around you in order to maintain social distancing. Please wear headphones; if you didn’t bring a pair, ask in the Museum Store about earbuds for sale.
When you’re finished, please take a few minutes to tell us about your experience!
Highlights Tour
This tour visits each exhibition and takes about one hour. Click on an image to hear more about the exhibition or individual artworks.
Level 1 | Windgate Foundation Atrium
Welcome & Architecture
Image courtesy Sterling Stevens Photography.
Special Exhibition: Many Become One
Wesley Clark, My Big Black America
Wesley Clark, My Big Black America, 2015, stain, spray paint, latex, and salvaged wood, 192 × 120 × 14 inches. Museum purchase with major support from 2017 A.R.T. members Ron & Nancy Edgerton, Kevin Click, Butch & Kathy Patrick, Rick & Maggi Swanson, and Monty McCutchen & Terri Sigler, and additional contributions from 2017 A.R.T. members Miller & Constance Williams, 2017.39.01. © Wesley Clark, image 1982 Creative Studios.
Level 3 | SECU Collection Hall
Special Exhibition: Intersections in American Art
SECU Collection Hall. Image David Huff Creative.
William C.A. Frerichs, Western North Carolina Landscape and Joseph Fiore, Green Landscape
William C.A. Frerichs, Western North Carolina Landscape, circa 1860, oil on canvas, 30 × 48 inches. Museum purchase with assistance of the 2011 Collectors’ Circle, 2012.25.01.21. Image John Schweikert.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Japanese Magnolias
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Japanese Magnolias, circa 1945, oil on canvas, 36 × 24 inches. Gift of Ted Mitchell in memory of Edna Mitchell, 1997.04.21. © Estate of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, courtesy WME.
Black Mountain College & Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.372)
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.372), circa 1954, iron wire, 34 1/2 × 24 × 24 inches. Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Lorna Blaine Halper, 2007.27.09.33. © Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY, image David Dietrich.
Kelly Phelps and Kyle Phelps, John Henry (Series 3)
Kelly Phelps and Kyle Phelps, John Henry (Series 3), 2014, mixed-media ceramic, 37 3/8 × 15 1/2 × 7 inches. 2014 Collectors’ Circle purchase, 2014.29.06.29. © Kelly Phelps and Kyle Phelps, image David Dietrich.
Lonnie Holley, For Every Woman I Have Seen Parts of Africa’s Dream in Her Honor
Lonnie B. Holley, For Every Woman I Have Seen Parts of Africa’s Dream in Her Honor, 1993, assemblage with wire, stone, and Plexiglas, 68 × 24 × 24 inches. Gift of Randy Siegel, 2015.14.01. © Lonnie B. Holley / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York, image Western Carolina University.
Mack Stanley, The 16th Street Baptist Church
Mack Stanley, The 16th Street Baptist Church, 1964, oil on canvas, 52 1/2 × 64 inches. Extended loan from the collection of Diane Weaver, EL2001.06.21. © Estate of Mack Stanley, image David Dietrich.
Level 1 | Windgate Foundation Atrium
Ken Fandell, The Sky Above Here (Asheville, NC)
Ken Fandell, The Sky Above Here (Asheville, NC), 2013, montaged color photograph, archival ink on vinyl wall covering, dimensions variable. 2010 Collectors’ Circle purchase, 2010.42.01. © Ken Fandell.
Museum Plaza
Henry Richardson, Reflections on Unity
Henry Richardson poses in front of his sculpture Reflections on Unity, which was installed at the Asheville Art Museum on September 19, 2019. | Henry Richardson, Reflections on Unity, 2016, chiseled, sanded, and bonded plate glass, 72 × 72 × 72 inches. On loan from the Artist, EL2019.04.01. © Henry Richardson.
Tell Us About Your Experience!
The Museum is adding content and improving the smARTguide in the coming months. Please take a few minutes to tell us about your experience. Your feedback will help us improve this resource.
Transcript
The smARTguide has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
