TRAC is governed by a bi-county board with offices above the Burnsville Gallery, a gift shop and exhibition space. The Spruce Pine Gallery offers a gift shop and large exhibition/reception space. Our exhibitions are educational, entertaining, are of the highest quality and represent local and outside artists and craftspersons including traditional and contemporary work.

TRAC sponsors the Toe River Studio Tour twice a year on the second weekend in June, the first weekend in December. Over 100 studios and galleries are represented in this free, self-guided tour.

Paint Out, held one day in the spring, brings together 2-dimensional artist who participate in a day of painting in and around Burnsville.

TRAC sponsors the Toe River Chamber Ensemble, a group of 20-25 volunteer musicians, who meet weekly to rehearse, then perform concerts throughout the year in schools and local churches.

The second Friday of the month is reserved for Java Jam, an evening of music and dancing at the Burnsville Town Center. Musicians are invited, home-baked desserts provided and coffee donated by the local coffee shop.

Music in the Mountains Folk Festival, dedicated to the "preservation of mountain music and culture" happens in the fall with old time string bands, ballad singers, clogging, storytelling and blue grass.

Foremost in TRAC's focus is education and communication in the arts.

TRAC has 5 basic education programs in the K-5 Residency program: Environment and the Arts; the Middle School Residency program; the TRAC Afterschool Program; Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM); and Performances in the Schools.

• The Environment and the Arts program provides for a teaching artist for a week at a time at each of the elementary schools in the two counties. The goal is to inspire appreciation in the visual arts in the younger years.
• The Middle School Residency Program provides teaching artists to all the middle school students. This year will focus on music, dance, and a melding of the past arts with the present.
• The TRAC After School Program is new this year, incorporating a variety of art media and techniques including clay, drawing, use of recycled materials and the performing arts.
• The Junior Appalachian Musicians is a program geared to teaching 6th 7th and 8th grade students the traditional music of Western North Carolina.
• And finally, each year TRAC brings a variety of performances to all the schools in Mitchell and Yancey Counties; the goal is to try to have two performances at each level, giving the students an opportunity to learn history and the intricacies of putting on an actual production.