Toe River Arts

Parkway Playhouse-Oliver!
2018-06-30 00:00 - 2018-07-14 00:00 UTC | Parkway Playhouse, 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Directed by Erika Tyner
The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliverâ€™s chances of discovering the true love of a family.
Friday/Saturday performances at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinee at 3:00pm
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Return to the Land of my Ancestors
2018-06-23 10:30 - 2018-07-28 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Burnsville, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 29,Â 5 TO 7PM
This informative and historically charged exhibit will focus on the ancestry of well-known painter Robert Alvin Crum, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca Bryan. He explores his connection with his past generations in painting.

Toe River Arts Benefit Art Auction Preview
2018-06-16 10:30 - 2018-07-05 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Spruce Pine, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777, United States
For the last 40+ years, Toe River Arts has mounted an auction of art from around the region. This exhibit will feature pieces donated for the one day event and that will be available at the Benefit Auction on July 7 at the Burnsville Town Center.

Spring Arts & Crafts Market
2018-06-16 10:00 - 2018-06-17 16:00 | Artisan League of Little Switzerland Gallery, Geneva Hall, Milepost 334 on Blue Ridge Parkway, Little Switzerland, NC, 28749, United States
In Geneva Hall at mile marker 334 off the Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway Playhouse-Boeing Boeing
2018-06-15 00:00 - 2018-06-16 00:00, 2018-06-08 00:00 - 2018-06-10 00:00, 2018-06-02 00:00 - 2018-06-03 00:00 | Parkway Playhouse, 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Directed by Dwight Chiles
This 1960â€™s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancÃ©es, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent â€œlayovers.â€ He keeps â€œone up, one down, and one pendingâ€ until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernardâ€™s apartment, at the same time.
Friday/Saturday performances at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinee at 3:00pm
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In Tandem Galleryâ€“Audrey Rosulek
2018-06-01 15:30 - 2018-06-30 16:30 | In Tandem Gallery, 20 North Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, NC, 28705, United States
I translate my daily landscape into playful abstract drawings that wrap around the surface of my ceramic pots. My drawings are full of scribbles and smudges, which can be a form of spontaneous expression or a means to hide something that wasn’t good enough.

June Studio Tour
2018-06-01 10:00 - 2018-06-03 17:00 | Mitchell and Yancey Counties, Mitchell and Yancey Counties, NC, United States
Bi-annual, self-guided arts tour of studios and galleries in the two county areaâ€”Mitchell and Yancey. Over 80 artists participate and open their doors for the 3-day event that runs from 10am to 5pm, Friday through Saturday. What a great way to spend a weekend.
Clay, glass, wood, textiles, metals, 2-dimensional, mixed media…all that you can imagine.
A reception, free and open to the public is planned for the first day of the tour, June 1 from 5:30-7:30 pm at the Toe River Arts Spruce Pine Gallery

Toe River Arts Chamber Ensemble Spring Concert
2018-05-29 19:30 - 20:30 | First Baptist Church, 11 Town Square, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
The Toe River Chamber Ensemble invites the public to their Annual Spring Concert.
The concert is as diverse as this springâ€™s weather. From well-loved â€œStars and Stripes Foreverâ€ by John Philip Sousa to selections from the Star Wars cinematic block-busters, the Toe River Chamber Ensemble will offer a challenging program featuring several full orchestra selections including, â€œDanse Macabreâ€ composed by Camille Saint-Saens in 1874. The original, known as a â€œtone poemâ€ because it evokes the content of aÂ poem or other non-musical source, was not well received due to its innovative sounds, but today, audiences applaud the almost dark tones that fill the background in many current films.
Then itâ€™s a change of pace when the Yancey County Middle School Jazz Band comes into the orchestra pit and joins in on â€œThe Star Spangled Banner.â€ Writing in 1814, poet Frances Scott Key was inspired by the largeÂ American flag and its 15 stars and 15 stripes flying triumphantly above Fort McHenry during a victory in the War of 1812. However, it took over 100 years to be recognized as the national anthem.
Led by Music Director at East Yancey and Cane River Middle Schools, Christine English, the Jazz Band continues solo with several renditions of their own favorites.

Glass on Fire
2018-05-19 10:30 - 2018-06-16 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Burnsville, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
A month long celebratory exhibition featuring the glass artists who worked on the Burnsville Gateway Telescope installed at the west end of the town of Burnsville.
Glass works of Courtney Dodd, Loretta Forde, Nick Fruin, Rob Levin, Kenny Pieper, David Wilson, and Hayden Wilson will be on accompany a brief history of the project.

Parkway Playhouse-Blithe Spirit
2018-05-18 00:00 - 2018-05-19 00:00, 2018-05-11 00:00 - 2018-05-13 00:00, 2018-05-05 00:00 - 2018-05-06 00:00 | Parkway Playhouse, 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati to his home for a sÃ©ance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spirit of Condomineâ€™s late wife, Elvira, his home and life are quickly turned into shambles as his wifeâ€™s ghost torments both himself and his new bride, Ruth.
Directed by Jenny Martin
Friday/Saturday performances at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinee at 3:00pm
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Spring Studio Tour Participant Exhibit
2018-05-12 10:30 - 2018-06-03 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Spruce Pine, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777, United States
In celebration of the bi-annual studio tour, participants are invited to share two examples of their pieces in an exhibition that is arranged geographically in the Gallery.
A reception is held the first evening of the tour, Friday, June 1 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

TALK : In My Backyard
2018-05-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Arts Resource Center, 269 Oak Avenue, 2nd Floor, Spruce Pine, 28777, United States
Join Kristen Orr and Kate Fleming in their discussion on May 5 about their experience transversing North Carolina. The two artists visited 7 nature preserves from one end of the state to the other. They returned to a residency as the AS IF Center to connect the science of what they documented with the art they found in nature. This fascinating look into our state’s ecosystem will enlighten and engage each person in the audience.Â
The talk if free, but please email sciencecandance@gmail.com to register. This series of talks if a collaborative effort with Toe River Arts and the Arts and Sciences Center in Mitchell County.

In Tandem Galleryâ€“Heesoo Lee
2018-05-01 15:30 - 2018-05-31 16:30 | In Tandem Gallery, 20 North Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, NC, 28705, United States
Heesoo Leeâ€™s work explores the vulnerability of the human condition through the metaphor of the natural world. Her artistic language, formed by observations of material, nature, and place, engages with themes of identity, connection, and time. In describing subtle variations of light, texture, color, and shadow as they exist in nature, Lee is, fundamentally, illuminating a range human emotions and the humbling reality of being a feeling person in a vast and changeable world.

Parkway Playhouse-Fiddler on the Roof Jr.
2018-04-22 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-20 18:00 - 2018-04-21 19:00 | Parkway Playhouse, 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
This special adaptation of the 9-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof JR. follows the village milkman Tevye, as he tries to protect his daughters and his way of life in his tight-knit Jewish community from a changing world. Tradition is important to Tevye as he and his family in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia.
Out of the mouths of children, Fiddler on the Roof JR. tackles the universal theme of tradition in ways that reach across barriers of race, class nationality, and religion.
Directed by Kristen Livengood
Musical Direction by Roberta Whiteside
Choreography by Amy Weinmeister
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Nina Simone Revisited
2018-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Burnsville Town Center, 6 South Main St, Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
A Kat Williams concert is a must see event these days as health complications have made performing more difficult.Â Kat returns to Burnsville accompanied by the Richard Shulman Trio performing a tribute the consummate musical storyteller Nina Simone.
Emmy nominated Kat Williams fills a void that has been severely neglected for years. She satisfies a yearning that a music lovers have been waiting to be fulfilled. With a Kat Williams performance, Â return to emotive Truth and Honesty in music rarely heard since some of the great vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Nina Simone, Coco Taylor, Mavis Staples & Etta James.

New Gift Shop Artists Exhibit
2018-04-07 10:30 - 2018-05-12 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Burnsville, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Once a year, the Toe River Arts Council juries in new artists for the two Toe River Arts’ gift shops. And following the jury results, the artists are celebrated in a month-long exhibit of their work.
Stop by and see the new artists: Jonathan BillerÂ (blown glass),Â Edwina BringleÂ (weaving),Â Susan MacleanÂ (felting),Â David McAvoyÂ (clay),Â Judy SmithÂ (photography),Â Amanda TaylorÂ (kilnformed glass),Â C.R. â€œPap Papâ€ TroxellÂ (painting),Â Bridget VanRemortelÂ (basketry),Â Sue WassermanÂ (photography),Â Mary Ruth WebbÂ (cards)â€”currently a clay artist in both galleries,Â David WestmeierÂ (clay),Â Mark WoodhamÂ (metal/wood)

12th Annual Blacksmith Exhibit
2018-03-31 10:30 - 2018-04-28 17:00 | NC
This 12th Anniversary exhibition features a room full of forged and manipulated metal work by participants in the Fire on the Mountain Festival that is held on lower street in downtown Spruce Pine the final Saturday of the exhibition.
A beer and pizza reception is held on Friday, April 27 from 5 to 7pm.

WORKSHOP : Making the Leap from Fact to Fiction
2018-03-17 10:00 - 14:30 | Arts Resource Center, 269 Oak Avenue, 2nd Floor, Spruce Pine, 28777, United States
Writer Cynthia Reeves is the 2018 â€œArt of the Climateâ€ resident at Art + Science In the Field: AS IF Center.Â Her current writing project is a trilogy of linked novellas entitledÂ The Comfort of Water. All three are set on the Svalbard archipelago, where in June 2017 she shared the Arctic Circle Summer Solstice expedition with 31 other artists.Â
10:00am-2:30pm with a break for lunch
(tryÂ Fox & the FigÂ orÂ DTs Blue Ridge Java)
This workshop will focus on finding inspiration for creative writing in â€œfactâ€ and incorporating research into fiction.Â We will address questions such as: How do you write authentically about subjects with which you might be only tangentially familiar? Why do certain subjectsâ€“climate change and historical events, for exampleâ€“intrigue you? How can that fascination be put to use in your writing?
Preparation for the workshop will include completing several reading assignments totalling approximately eight hours. The workshop will consist of an informal lecture as well as a writing exercise that will be completed in class and shared with other participants. Due to time constraints, there will not be an opportunity for Cynthia to read the work of participants beforehand. Â
Minimum 8 participants / Maximum 12
Workshop registration closes March 10
To apply,Â write a brief (250-300 word) essay about why you are interested in the workshop, and emailÂ by March 10Â to AS IF Center DirectorÂ Nancy Lowe.

Yancey County Education Showcase
2018-02-17 10:30 - 2018-03-24 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Burnsville, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Once a year, all students in Yancey County are invited to participate in an exhibition of their work. All student work is accepted, displayed, viewed, and applauded for its creativity, imagination, and willingness to think outside the box.

Mitchell County Education Showcase
2018-02-10 10:30 - 2018-03-17 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Spruce Pine, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777, United States
Once a year, all students in Mitchell County are invited to participate in an exhibition of their work. All student work is accepted, displayed, viewed, and applauded for its creativity, imagination, and willingness to think outside the box.

Sphere of Influence
2018-02-08 08:00 - 17:00 | NC
Glass Artists of Western North Carolina
Toe River Arts, in collaboration with several Asheville area glass agencies and organizations mounts an exhibit that focuses on the impact of Western North Carolina glass artists on the international glass arena. An invitational, this glass exhibit will feature the work of artists in and around this region and a cultural map of their influence both nationally and internationally.
A reception is scheduled for July 28 from 5 to 7pm.
The exhibit will be open Wednesday â€“ Saturday, from 11am to 4pm.

Toe River Arts December Studio Tour
2017-12-01 10:00 - 2017-12-03 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Spruce Pine, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777, United States
The Toe River Arts Holiday Studio Tour happens each December in Mitchell and Yancey Counties. This second of two premier events held each year the first weekend in December will feature over 80 open studios and galleries. Â On the evening of the first day of the tour (December 1) from 5:30 to 7:30pm, TRAC hosts a reception at the Spruce Pine Gallery where visitors and artists get together to shake hands, tell a story or two, share a glass of wine; and where those â€œtakingâ€ the tour can plan the rest of their weekend. The tour is self-guided and free. Hours are 10am to 5pm each dayâ€”Friday-Sunday. Just pick up a guide at either TRAC location or at retailers and studios throughout the region (Available mid-October) and follow the Toe River Arts tour signs. For more information call 828-682-7215, 828-765-0520, or email trac@toeriverarts.org. And check out the website.

Mica Gallery and the Toe River Studio Tour
2017-12-01 10:00 - 2017-12-03 17:00 | Mica Gallery, 37 North Mitchell Avenue, Bakersville, NC, 28705, United States
Mica joins local studios and galleries for Toe River Arts Council’s annual December self-guided exploration of the area’s best and finest. Also this weekend you will be able to meet and chat with the very talented fiber artists displaying their work at Mica.

Conversions
2017-11-25 10:30 - 2017-12-30 17:00 | Toe River Arts Gallery – Burnsville, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, NC, 28714, United States
Mary Ruth Webb is an artist. Her show Conversions will mark the end of the year at the Toe River Arts Burnsville Gallery with an expressive display of determination, and talent.Â Webb is a sculptorÂ and two-dimensional and digital artist. Her work draws you in, causes you to think, ask a question. Yet, at the same time, her images engage your eyes with the beauty of detail.
â€œMy work is evolutionary. It represents my personal transition to freedom from the stifling existence of the female role in my family of origin. The work reflects my journey from a childhood of fear- and shamed-based religious fundamentalism to the freedom of my own hard-won spirituality. The exhibit reflects my belief that one cannot find inner peace as the result of influences from others and that it cannot be genuine if it comes from someone else’s belief system.Â
â€œConversions expresses both the subject matter and the working modes involved in creating my sculptures…from drawings, both traditional and digital, to the ceramic pieces, and vice-versa.â€Â
RECEPTION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, FROM 5 TO 7PM

Holiday Boutique in our Gallery
2017-11-22 09:00 - 2017-11-25 17:00 | Artisan League of Little Switzerland Gallery, Geneva Hall, Milepost 334 on Blue Ridge Parkway, Little Switzerland, NC, 28749, United States
Upstairs at Little Switzerland Books & Beans
At mile marker 334 off the Blue Ridge Parkway
