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gallery exhibits + art shows
Domestic Tranquility?

Domestic Tranquility?

On view at Momentum Gallery through late June, Domestic Tranquility? invites viewers to reconsider the domestic space not as a haven of comfort, but…

Native America: In Translation

Native America: In Translation

Native America: In Translation, the latest exhibition at the Asheville Art Museum, challenges the camera’s colonial gaze through the work of seven groundbreaking Indigenous…

The Sound of Color

The Sound of Color

Kelly Saunders doesn’t just paint what she sees — she paints what she hears. In her new solo exhibit The Sound of Color, on…

Burning Bright 

Burning Bright 

Growing up on Sunset Beach with the Atlantic Ocean as his front yard, Scott Summerfield spent his childhood sketching shrimp boats and building model…

Making Impressions on Higher Ground

Making Impressions on Higher Ground

After anchoring the printmaking scene in the River Arts District for years, Denise Markbreit and Anna Bryant have launched a new chapter downtown. Print…

Tuning Into Tradition

Tuning Into Tradition

As a master luthier with more than 40 years of experience, John Kinnaird has one goal: to craft a guitar that looks as stunning…

From Wheel to Meal 

From Wheel to Meal 

On Sunday, May 18, a group of local potters will turn their craft into compassion during Empty Bowls. Now in its eighth year, the…

Deep Cut

Deep Cut

Pine trees have their limits. Asheville sculptor and art educator Thomas Schram learned this as a young boy growing up in North Carolina’s Piedmont…

Creative Heights

Creative Heights

In 1875, Highlands began as a high-elevation haven for those seeking relief from heat and humidity. But the summer colony quickly transformed into a…

A New Layer of Talent

A New Layer of Talent

Gallery Row, the one-mile arts district made up of Biltmore Avenue and Broadway Street, just acquired one more creative: Rand Kramer. Now represented by…

From Destruction to Creation

From Destruction to Creation

In those long, shapeless days after Hurricane Helene, Asheville mixed-media artist Li Newton says she “moved through the chaos on automatic — shutdown from reality.” Existing…

Weaving Through Loss

Weaving Through Loss

When Hurricane Helene barreled into Western North Carolina, weaver Emelie Weber Wade retreated from her first-floor apartment in Biltmore Village to a friend’s nearby…

That’s Her Transfiguration

That’s Her Transfiguration

Fear can limit you. Alexander artist Chrys Corn Goodman knows this firsthand.  Growing up in San Francisco, Goodman always wanted to be an artist….

Gallery Interrupted 

Gallery Interrupted 

What happens to a dream deferred by ongoing road construction? For Julie and Phil Wilmot, owners of Art on 7th in Hendersonville, that dream…

Petal Power

Petal Power

“It’s what keeps me alive,” Marshall artist Susan McChesney said of her chosen medium — pressed-flower art — during an interview with Asheville Made back…