Asheville Art Museum

Spend your afternoons creating in the bright and spacious studio at the Museum! Explore a range of artistic processes using artwork on view from the Museum’s Collection and special exhibitions for inspiration.

As a valued Museum Member, we invite you to join us for the exclusive opening of our newest exhibitions: Modernist Design at Black Mountain College…

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

Visit the Rural Avant-Garde exhibition on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then explore a variety of experimental mark making and collaborative techniques in the studio.…

Join Sheila Langdon, touring docent, for today’s small-group/in-person tour for adults with memory loss and their care partners.

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. 

This evening Travers plays bluegrass and Americana in conjunction with Walter B. Stephen Pottery and Intersections in American Art.

Today’s Art Break is led by Whitney Richardson, associate curator.

In this four-week, small-group/in-person class, gain knowledge, skills, and confidence for photographing people.

Today’s public tour is led by Susan Coleman, 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.

In this six-week, small-group/in-person class, examine modern and contemporary themes of abstract painting and work toward developing a unique voice in your own paintings.

Today’s public tour is led by Joey Gigliotti, touring docent.

Today’s public tour is led by Jim Crook, touring docent.

Spend the afternoon creating a variety of pieces of jewelry, inspired by artworks in our Collection. Students experiment with beading, braiding, and assemblage to create bracelets, pins, and more.

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…

Visit the galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then mix three simple ingredients to make homemade salt dough in the studio. Add details and…

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…

Today’s Art Break, one of a two-part series, is led by UNC Asheville students.

Visit the galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then mix three simple ingredients to make homemade salt dough in the studio. Add details and…

Join Hank Bovee, touring docent, for today’s small-group/in-person tour for adults with memory loss and their care partners.

As a valued Museum Member, we invite you to join us for the exclusive opening of our newest exhibitions: A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and…

Today’s Art Break, one of a two-part series, is led by UNC Asheville students.

Come along on an Artful Adventure! Take a whimsical walk through our Museum to discover artworks and explore storytelling through the visual arts. Look closely…

In this small-group/in-person workshop, explore the elements of art and principles of design through the most complex and dynamic subject in nature: the human figure.

Today’s public tour is led by Doris Potash, master docent.

The Cherokee language was spoken in North America thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans and is still used today by the Eastern Band…

Today’s public tour is led by Kay Dunn and Ruth Shedwick-Bryant, touring docents.

Today’s public tour is led by Jim Crook, touring docent.

Spend the afternoon creating letter-based artworks, inspired by the use of text in A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art.

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…

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 Kathy Seguin, touring docent, for today’s small-group/in-person tour for adults with memory loss and their care partners.

The Cherokee language was spoken in North America thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans and is still used today by the Eastern Band…

Today’s Art Break is led by Hilary Schroeder, assistant curator.

Come along on an Artful Adventure! Take a whimsical walk through our Museum to discover artworks and explore storytelling through the visual arts. Look closely…

Today’s public tour is led by Bonnie Cooper, touring docent.

Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, NC, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville’s luxurious…

The Cherokee language was spoken in North America thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans and is still used today by the Eastern Band…