Immerse in a Two Day Adult Studio of Book Binding with Alyssa Sacora

Saturday, August 5 & Sunday, August 6 • 1–4pm

$110 for two days

Museum Members receive 10% discount

Are you curious about how paper is made? Wondering what you would do with a stack of handmade paper after you create the sheets? Register for this two-day workshop and learn how to make paper and make your own book. The workshop includes a tour of the exhibition Pulp Potential to discuss creative concepts and be inspired by the works on view. Participants will take home handmade paper and books, a reference hand-out, and the skills to continue on with the craft.

About the Instructor

Alyssa Sacora (she/her) is a crafts person exploring paper making, book arts, basketry, and natural dyes with locally available plants. She encourages reciprocal relationships between people and plants through teaching hands-on workshops at her studio, The Patchwork Underground, in Fairview, North Carolina. Guided by tradition and curiosity, Alyssa is finding ways to create a sustainable art practice that takes care of the soil, minimizes resource use, and inspires others to do the same in their own way.

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Enhance Your Experience—Thursday Night Live with Industrial Coffee Pot

Thursday, July 20 • 6–8pm

Free for Members or included with Museum admission

Enjoy an evening of live music in the Museum’s Windgate Foundation Atrium featuring a performance by Industrial Coffee Pot. Industrial Coffee Pot is comprised of three former and current University of North Carolina Asheville students who love playing a creative fusion of jazz, soul, funk, and pop music. The group routinely performs around Asheville, Waynesville, and Hickory.

Don’t Miss the Last Rooftop Yoga of the Season this Saturday

Saturday, July 22 • 9:30–10:30am

$15 for Members; $25 for non-members

Join us for the final session of Saturday Morning Yoga on the Rooftop in collaboration with West Asheville Yoga. Enjoy a Creative Flow experience that combines the beauty of art with the power of mindful movement.

All-levels are welcome. Please bring your own mat. Loose-fitting clothing is recommended. In the event of inclement weather, the class will be held inside at the Museum’s Atrium.

Theme:

Fluidity • Inspired by the mesmerizing Karen LaMonte glass sculpture, this session will guide you to move like water, embodying grace and fluidity in your practice. Led by Kim Drye.

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Donald Sultan, Four Lemons Suite, 2018, silkscreen with enamel ink and tar-like texture, edition 15/40, 39 × 39 inches each. Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. © Donald Sultan / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

An Open Treat—Feast Upon The Art of Food During Our Volunteer Educator Public Tour

Sunday, July 23 • 2–3pm

Free for Members or included with Museum admission

This featured exhibition tour explores the many identities of food in daily life: whether a source of pleasure, a reason for gathering, a mass-produced commodity, or a reflection of social ideologies and divisions.

The Art of Food features works from important postwar artists including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Jasper Johns, alongside the work of contemporary artists, like Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, Enrique Chagoya, Rachel Whiteread, and Jenny Holzer, among others.

The Art of Food, a traveling exhibition, is organized by the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

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Sunday Live Serenades—Upcoming Piano with Steve Lapointe

Sunday, July 23 • 2–4pm

Free for Members or included with Museum admission

Registration not required

Steve Lapointe’s nine years of classical piano as a youth grounded him in music theory. Jazz studies while in Ithaca, New York, opened his ears to extemporaneous improvisation and the music of Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Michel Petrucciani and the American songbook. Steve served as musical director of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Fellowship of Vero Beach, Florida, and occasionally performed at the UU Asheville congregation.

It’s Game Day!

Sunday, July 23 • 2–5pm

Grab your friends and join us each Sunday from 2 to 5pm for Game Day: Perspective Café. Enjoy the galleries and then head up to the rooftop to play an assortment of board and card games in Perspective Café. You can even bring your own favorite games from home to share with new friends. The Perspective Cafe will offer special snacks and cocktails, including $6 local beers and ciders and freshly popped old-fashioned popcorn to enjoy while you play and enjoy a memorable afternoon!

Drop-in for Our Newest Feature—Perspective Poetry with Regional Poets

Saturday, July 29, 2023 • 1:30–2:30pm

Free for Members or included with Museum admission

Join us for a poetic afternoon of shared musings and spoken word. Hear from our region’s established poets as they share intimate selections atop the Museum with its fabulous Blue Ridge vista.

Enjoy signature in-house bites and locally sourced tea, coffee, or cold drinks from the Perspective Café. Heighten your inspiration by taking a stroll through our Exhibition Halls, Galleries, and Museum Store. Included with general admission; no reservations are required.

About the Poets

Share Outstanding Art with Community—Join as a Volunteer Educator

A volunteer educator is a rewarding and wonderful way to share your love of art with students, children, and adults. Volunteer educators give tours to Museum visitors, primarily for school-aged and student groups but also for groups of all ages and varied interests.

Our learning & engagement staff provides ongoing volunteer educator trainings, which include exclusive previews of new exhibitions and behind-the-scenes discussions with Museum curators, artists, scholars, and other special guests. Volunteer educators also have the opportunity to visit local artists’ studios and cultural attractions.

Volunteer educators are an essential component of the Museum’s education programs and provide an invaluable service in advancing the Museum’s role as a vibrant community center. Many of our volunteer educators have expressed that volunteering at the Museum is one of their most gratifying experiences. Apply by August 1. Training begins in the fall for the upcoming exhibition season.

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Become an Art Champion by Donating to the Annual Fund

Become an art champion today! Your generosity during the Spring Annual Fund Drive will benefit our educational programs, empowering aspiring artists of all ages to nurture their talents and find their unique voice in the arts community. Your support will pave the way for workshops, scholarships, classes, camps and community outreach initiatives that kindle the flames of artistic passion. Please click the "DONATE NOW" button to make your annual contribution!

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James Harold Jennings, Untitled, not dated, paint on wood, 50 × 121 inches. Gift of Randy & Lee Sewell, Asheville Art Museum. © Estate of James Harold Jennings. Stella Waitzkin, Untitled (small library), 1979, epoxy resin, paint, and wood, 13 ¾ × 10 ? × 3 ¼ inches. Gift of the Waitzkin Memorial Library and Kohler Foundation Inc., Asheville Art Museum. © Waitzkin Memorial Library Trust.

Four New Digital Exhibitions Launched to View Anytime, Anywhere

We are proud to present four new digital exhibitions available to view from the comfort of your home. The project was organized with the assistance of a scholar’s group and our internal team. The exhibitions are Tensions, The Nature of Narrative, Beyond the Binary of Past and Future, and Made for Market. Each digital exhibition is accompanied by a featured exhibition video.

Tensions, The Nature of Narrative, Beyond the Binary of Past and Future, and Made for Market are organized by the Asheville Art Museum and coordinated by Whitney Richardson, former associate curator, with assistance from Kimberly Cramer, former curatorial assistant. Interpretation for this project is provided by scholars Evan Mathis, Barry and Allen Huffman, Eva Bares, Jenni Sorkin, Margi Conrads, Arielle Smith, Sarah Kelly, and Nancy Green. Major funding for the Asheville Art Museum’s Object Collections Access Project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan.

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Harlan W. ****, Haiku Vessel B-1, 1997, enamel, copper, and brass, 13 × 8 × 5 inches. Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, Asheville Art Museum. © Harlan W. ****.

Work of the Week

Haiku Vessel B-1 by Harlan W. ****

On view in Debra McClinton Gallery • Level 2

Haiku poems traditionally evoke images of the natural world through their subject matter, and in this work, Harlan **** conjures the presence of a plant out of metal, with its single leaf remaining on a reedy stem.

Haiku Vessel B-1 combines metal work with poetry to create a tribute to nature. The enameled vase in which the plant sits conveys human interaction and the understanding that this leaf is no longer in its natural habitat, but rather picked and put on display.

s Haiku Vessel B-1 is featured in our exhibition—Natural Collector: Gifts of Fleur S. Bresler, on view in the Debra McClinton Gallery, level 2.

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