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.
Writer Cynthia Reeves is the 2018 “Art of the Climate†resident at Art + Science In the Field: AS IF Center. Her current writing project is a trilogy of linked novellas entitled 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 […]
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.
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 Biller (blown glass), Edwina Bringle (weaving), Susan Maclean (felting), David McAvoy (clay), Judy Smith (photography), Amanda Taylor (kilnformed glass), C.R. “Pap Pap†Troxell (painting), Bridget […]
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 […]
A Kat Williams concert is a must see event these days as health complications have made performing more difficult. 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 […]
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 […]
Heesoo Lee’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 […]
Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati to his home for a séance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spirit of Condomine’s late wife, Elvira, his home and life are quickly turned into shambles as his wife’s ghost torments both himself and his new […]
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 […]
