Asheville
North Carolina
Our Valentine's Gift Guide Has Arrived
Arts and Entertainment
February 13, 2024
From: Asheville Art Museum2024 Museum Store
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Welcome to our Valentine's Day Museum Store Gift Guide, a celebration of local charm and unique treasures that resonate with the heart of our community.
Embrace the season of love and explore our curated selection, including our local picks from the Museum Store jewelry collection.
From artisanal creations to locally-inspired keepsakes, our offerings listed below capture the spirit of our community and provide an intimate way to celebrate love, right in the heart of our town.
Share the Gift of Museum Membership Love American Art Together
The Gift of Experience that Keeps Giving All Year-Round!
For your art lover, a Membership to the Museum is the perfect gift. They'll get a whole year of unlimited admission, invitations to all Museum programs and exhibition previews, discounts on ticketed special events, Museum Store discounts, access and discount at the Perspective Café and rooftop Sculpture Terrace, plus more!
Great Art. Great Experiences. Great Gifts.
Gift Selections for Your Special Someone
$30 Asheville Art Museum Baseball Cap
$35 Head Warmer by Local Artist Ann Squire
$38 Handcrafted Unlined Leather Sketchbook
$40 Bedrock Ecology Short Sleeve by Local Artist Ian Quate
$17 Lace Heart Plate By Local Artist Morgan McCarver
$22 Locally Made Potters' Skin Butter Tangerine
$45 Ashcraft Glass Tri-Color Arrow Earrings
$220 Felted Wool Tote Bag by Local Artist Constance Ensner
$50 and Under
$1.50 Love Comes in Many Colors Pin
$24.99 Jacob Lawrence 1000 Piece Puzzle
$16.99 Love and Hope Tote Bag
$40 Asheville Art Museum Crew Neck Sweater
$100 and Under
$50/$75 An Introduction to the Collection
$5–$100 Asheville Art Museum Gift Card
$89 Argentium & Titanium Round Earrings by Ilene Kay
The Museum Store Jewelry Collection
Local Artist Nora Julia
Nora Julia designs, forms, files, saws, fuses, hammers, and polishes every piece of jewelry by hand. She mainly works with Argentium sterling silver—a hypoallergenic, highly tarnish resistant silver alloy guaranteed to be made using 100% recycled metal. Each filigree piece takes multiple hours to complete - forming every wire shape individually and ensuring they fit into the outline without overcrowding is a precise art. While the jewelry looks delicate, the joining of the wires forms a surprisingly strong web of silver.
Local Artist Ellen Vontillius
Ellen Vontillius is an artistic jeweler who combines romance with elegance to create delicate, lyrical jewelry.
Local Artist Faryn Davis
FernWorks is a one-woman studio creating delicate, dreamlike art and jewelry which blends hand painted scenes & real ethically sourced specimens into dimensional layers of polished resin. Each piece is handmade in Asheville and inspired by the natural world.
Local Artist Delphia Lamberson
Delphia Lamberson has been a member of The Southern Highland Craft Guild as well as The Toe River Arts Council of Mitchell and Yancey Counties. With the revival of African Art, she has collected African trade beads as well as beads from Ancient Roman glass out of Afghanistan.
Local Artist Pat Phillips
Pat Phillips is a goldsmith artist, creating one-of-a-kind works. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationship of shapes, lines and textures, with a limited utilization of color. Each piece is generally hand wrought in gold and silver, starting from sheet and wire, with gemstones added for balance. The techniques incorporated are pulled from modern to ancient methods designed to please the eye through balance. They are small sculptural art forms which speak of a blend between delicate grace and strength as part of self-expression.
Local Artist Buzz Coren
Mostly self taught, Buzz creates multi-layered wood jewelry in his shop in Western North Carolina. Raw tulip poplar veneer is cut, dyed, dried, pressed, sorted, sequenced, stacked, glued into blocks about 300+ thick, cut into smaller pieces, sanded, cut into yet smaller pieces, refined, drilled, sanded, finished and sanded again. There are about 50 steps in all.