Current Events

2024 Music in the Mountains Folk Festival

Saturday, September 14th
Homeplace Beer Company
Workshops: 2-3:30pm
Live Music: 5pm
2024 Honoree: Terry McKinney
This year’s festival honoree is local legend Terry McKinney. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate his many contributions to our local music traditions. Terry was born in Spruce Pine and grew up in Mitchell and McDowell counties surrounded by traditional mountain music. Terry has been singing and playing music most of his life.

Current Exhibitions

Robin Martindale: On and Off the Wall

August 3 – September 7, 2024
Owen Gallery
Reception: Friday, August 16th, 5-7pm
“As I see it, art-making is a meditative process. When I work, I learn who I am. Visual
art is a way of communicating that is as visceral as music but much more
subtle, particularly when it is non-representational or abstracted. We absorb
things visually and take joy in that vision without taking the time to name it.”

Stanley Mace Andersen: Reflections and Possibilities, 1978-2024

August 10 – September 14, 2024
Kokol Gallery
Reception: Friday, August 16th, 5-7pm
Stanley Mace Andersen has been a studio potter since 1978. He works with earthenware clay and is concerned primarily with making utilitarian ware for the table and kitchen. He uses the majolica technique in decorating his pottery which is fired in an electric kiln to cone03. 

Meet the Toe River Artists and Galleries