Upcoming Community Events at the Asheville Art Museum

Asheville, NC - The Asheville Art Museum offers a wide range of creative and educational programs for youth and adults throughout the year. Programs and events invite visitors to explore artworks featured in exhibitions and the Museum’s Collection, to discuss current topics as they relate to art, to get creative with hands-on projects, and more.

Sunday Traditional Game Day: Perspective Café
Every Sunday, 2–5pm • Perspective Café • Level 4

Free for Members or included with Museum admission for nonmembers.

Registration is not required.

Grab your friends and join us each Sunday in the rooftop Perspective Café and Sculpture Terrace to play an assortment of board and card games. You can even bring your own favorite games to share with new friends. The Café will be offering special snacks and cocktails for Game Day, including $6 local craft beers and ciders and freshly popped, old-fashioned popcorn to enjoy while you play and create a memorable afternoon. Enjoy the galleries and then head up to the rooftop!

Public Tour-Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller’s Plans to Save the Planet
Thursday, April 20 • 6–7pm • Appleby Exhibition Hall • Level 1
$7 for Members or $10 plus general admission for nonmembers.

Registration is not required.
Join us for a guided tour of this newly opened exhibition featuring the inventions and designs of Buckminster Fuller and his strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering. A replica of Fuller’s Dymaxion Car, on loan from the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, is on view in the Windgate Foundation Atrium throughout the exhibition.

Significant to Asheville, Fuller taught at Black Mountain College during the summers of 1948 and 1949. It was there that he importantly constructed his first geodesic dome as he experimented to develop more affordable housing. More than 30 major artworks by Buckminster Fuller join select examples by artists and designers directly impacted by Fuller’s innovations in art and design, including Jade Doskow, Kenneth Snelson, and Kirsten Stolle, among others.

The University of North Carolina Asheville’s STEAM Studio brings to life the designs of Fuller’s Fly’s Eye dome and Geodesic dome—two feats of imagination that transformed the history of modern architecture—with student-produced models on view in the exhibition.

Thursday Night Live: Violinist Alex Travers Performs

Thursday, April 20 • 6–8pm • Windgate Foundation Atrium • Level 1
Free for Members or included with general admission for nonmembers.

Explosive style and technique are what make Alex Travers’ performances memorable. Raised in the Raleigh area, he grew up performing in regional orchestras as a violinist and also in local metal/rock bands as a guitarist. He went on to receive his bachelor degree in performance from Appalachian State University in 2014, with a focus on violin studies. During his time as an undergraduate, his passion for baroque music and pedagogy came into focus and played a large part in his artistic growth. When he isn’t gigging, teaching at the Asheville Music Academy, or recording at the studio, Travers is probably busking with Bach and drinking coffee somewhere around Wall Street. More information on his projects, collaborations, and released music can be found at his artist website.

Makerspace: Nature-Based Monoprints with Artist Aspen Johnson
Thursday, April 20 • 5–8pm • John & Robyn Horn Education Center • Level 3
Free for Members or included with Museum admission for nonmembers. Registration is not required.
Drop into John & Robyn Horn Education Center to experiment freely and collaborate using different materials, tools, and techniques. During this Makerspace, participants will create monoprints inspired by nature to celebrate Earth Day! Makers will use dried flowers, leaves, fruits, and vegetables to create a printmaking collage of textures and shapes inspired by our current exhibition, Too Much is Just Right: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration.

Adult Studio: Introduction to Natural Dyes with Kristin Arzt
Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and April 23 • noon–5pm • John & Robyn Horn Education Center • Level 3

$105 for two days. Museum Members receive a 10 percent discount. Two equity seats offered at only $25 for BIPOC participants.
Explore how natural dyes can create limitless colors, hues, and values on fabric. Using natural indigo, madder, and weld, create an entire rainbow of colors! Creating with both silk and cotton fibers, learn how to prepare different types of fibers for dyeing. Participants are welcome to bring in their own small natural fiber items to dye.

Reserve your spot soon; there’s only capacity for 12 participants per class. Pre-registration is required. Register here.

Sunday Live: Steve Lapointe

Sunday, April 23 • 2–4pm

Windgate Foundation Atrium • Level 1
Free for Members or included with Museum admission for nonmembers.
Steve Lapointe’s nine years of classical piano as a youth grounded him in music theory. Jazz studies while in Ithaca, NY opened his ears to extemporaneous improvisation and the music of Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Michel Petrucciani, and the American songbook. Steve served as musical director of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Fellowship of Vero Beach, Florida, and occasionally performed for the UU Asheville congregation.

Asheville Chamber Music Series: Rising Star Concert Featuring the Arsevi Duo

Tuesday, April 25 • 6–7:30pm • Windgate Foundation Atrium • Level 1

$13 for Members or $15 for non-members

The third concert in the new Rising Star Concert Series, presented by the Asheville Chamber Music Series in collaboration with the Asheville Art Museum, will take place in the Windgate Foundation Atrium of the Asheville Art Museum. The featured ensemble will be Arsevi Duo, two young musicians embarking on a major concert career and representing music excellence in North Carolina. Reserve your spot now. The two previous concerts sold out!

Open Studio at Different Wrld
Offsite • 701 Haywood Road, Suite 101, Asheville

Thursday, May 4 • 6–9pm
Free
Come have a drink and experiment with art materials while connecting with your community! Asheville Art Museum will host Open Studio at Different Wrld on the the first Thursday evening of each month throughout the year.

This free drop-in program, which is facilitated by the Asheville Art Museum and hosted at Different Wrld, aims to expose and engage participants with the Museum’s Collection and changing exhibitions. Attendees must be 21 or older to participate. The Asheville Art Museum will provide all instruction, supplies, and materials at no charge.

During May’s Open Studio, Abstract Art 101, participants will learn how to create a series of small, minimalist abstract paintings inspired by the exhibition Luzene Hill: Revelate. Materials will include watercolor paper or Bristol paper, ink, watercolors, scissors, water cups, charcoal, glue sticks, and tape.

Art Break-Luzene Hill

Thursday, May 11 • 6–7pm • Judith S. Moore Gallery • Level 3

Free for Members or included with Museum admission for nonmembers.

Join featured artist Luzene Hill for this month’s Art Break as she leads an informal Gallery discussion about the works in the special exhibition, Luzene Hill: Revelate. Learn more about Hill’s captivating art and hear from the artist about her artistic inspirations and process. Revelate builds upon a legacy of matrilineal culture, where balance/equilibrium was the prevailing philosophy.

This exhibition combines Hill’s use of mylar safety blankets alongside recent drawings. Capes constructed of mylar burst with energy and rustle with subtle sound, the shining material a signifier of care, awareness, displacement, and presence.

Though Hill works primarily in sculpture, drawing has increasingly become an essential part of her practice as she seeks to communicate themes of feminine and Indigenous power across her entire body of work. The energy within her drawings extends to the bursts of light reflecting from her capes or the accumulation of materials in other installation works.

Makerspace: Second Saturdays

Saturday, May 13 • 11am–2pm • John & Robyn Horn Education Center • Level 3

Free for Members or included with Museum admission for nonmembers. Registration is not required.

Drop into our John & Robyn Horn Education Center to experiment freely and collaborate using different materials, tools, and techniques. Visit a chosen artwork in the galleries for inspiration, then head to the studio to create. All ages and abilities are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No reservations are required.

American Art + Sound: An Evening of Innovators and Innovation

Thursday, May 18 • 4:30–5:30pm

$10 for Members or $15 plus general admission for non-members.

No registration required.

Join The Asheville Art Museum and the Moogseum for an immersive evening exploring synergies between American Art and the pioneering sound of Moog synthesizers. These two nonprofit organizations are collaborating to present a unique program examining ways material and form have been expressed within visual art objects and electronic sound. The program will include a live synthesizer performance and discussions centered around select works of art from the Museum’s collection.

If you would like photographs of any the events for publication, please email [email protected] with your request. We will happily provide them for you!

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