Rural Avant-Garde

The Mountain Lake Workshop originated in 1980 as a series of conferences founded by artist and curator Ray Kass and co-directed by art historian Howard

Video Transcript Welcome to Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience. I am curatorial assistant Alexis Meldrum, and this is the Asheville Art Museum’s presentation of

Evening for Educators is an opportunity to network with other art educators, share and learn as both teacher and student, and reconnect with your own creative process. 

Today’s virtual program for adults with memory loss and their care partners is led by Michelle Weitzman, touring docent.

Spend the afternoon creating acrylic pour paintings, inspired by the collaborative and interdisciplinary works in Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience. Students experiment with a variety of techniques and surfaces.

Today’s public tour is led by a Shana Hill, touring docent.

Join Hank Bovee, touring docent, for an interactive conversation about three artworks in the special exhibition Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience.

Today’s Art Break is led by Alexis Meldrum, curatorial assistant.

Today’s public tour is led by a Hank Bovee, touring docent.

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