Asheville, NC—Momentum Gallery in downtown Asheville is pleased to participate in the Summer of Glass, a WNC celebration of glass art in conjunction with the Dale Chihuly exhibition at the Biltmore Estate, May-October 2018. The gallery exhibition, Reflections (July 1-August 25) nods to the Gilded Age, a period during the late 19th Century when the Biltmore Estate was conceived and constructed by railway tycoon George Vanderbilt. This curated exhibition features recent work by some of the country’s top contemporary glass…

We are lucky to have incredible Animal Educators to help us spread the word on the important roles they play in the Park. Join one of our Park naturalists for an informal program where your family will love meeting some of our wilder teammates! Kids of all ages are sure to take home some fun facts and special memories. Then, grab a Track Trail brochure at the Animal Discovery Den and round out the day with a hike along our…

Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions, both opening Friday, August 3rd. SHARON CORE creates extensively researched explorations of the living still life. In both series exhibited, 1606-1907 and Understory, we see the play between the illusion of a painting and the truth of a photograph set amidst the natural cycles of decay and renewal. This will be Core’s first show with the gallery. DAWN ROE, a local artist, will be showing recent work from her series, Conditions…

Welcome to Vintage Market Days of Asheville Metro Vintage Market Days® is an upscale vintage-inspired indoor/outdoor market featuring original art, antiques, clothing, jewelry, handmade treasures, home décor, outdoor furnishings, consumable yummies, seasonal plantings and a little more. Vintage Market Days® events are so much more than a flea market. Each Vintage Market Days® event is a unique opportunity for vendors to display their talents and passions in creative venues.

Learn about the largest edible native tree fruit native to North America with Craig Mauney, Area Specialized Extension Agent and pawpaw farmer. Craig will cover how to cultivate pawpaws and will have a taste testing of various fruit. $25.

Already longing to be back at the beach? We've got you covered! As summer winds to an end, fiber artist, Anne Magrath, will show you how to create your own needle felted mermaid so you can return to the sea (or, at least your memories) anytime you'd like! In this fun-filled, two-day workshop, you'll learn the basics of needle felting a human face and torso; then let your imagination run as you give your mermaid a tail, hair, and her…

Beat the summer heat, grab a brew and shop our 11-day pop up shop featuring some of the area’s best in handmade and vintage. We’ve curated goods featuring over 75 independent vendors of handmade and vintage goods including clothing, jewelry, decor, greeting cards, and more. SUMMER POP UP SHOP Open August 16-26 | 11am-9pm Bhramari Brewing Company 101 S Lexington Ave, Asheville, NC 28801 For more details and a full list of vendors click the link above or visit: https://www.showandtellpopupshop.com/

Meet adoptable pets, have a bite to eat, a beer to drink, and win fabulous prizes! Universal Joint will be hosting Mountain Pet Rescue Asheville on August 18th from 12pm to 4pm for an adoption event. We will have fabulous furries to make your heart go pitter patter and raffle items donated by local merchants. Also, some of our local breweries will be donating yummy beer with proceeds of sales going to help save animals in our mountain community. Mountain…

Asheville is known for its vibrant arts community and now you, too, can become an artist—and take home a unique memento of the city! We’ve put together three of our most popular craft experiences for you to choose from! 12:30-3:30 PM: Locker Hooked Coaster. Locker hooking has been practiced in the Appalachian Mountains since the 19th century. In this workshop, we’ll show you how to take colorful batik fabrics and a beautiful ceramic tile made by local artist Carolyn Kinnison…

Hailed as an “inspired collaboration” by NPR, the Nashville-based duo Oliver the Crow (cellist Kaitlyn Raitz and fiddler Ben Plotnick) deliver a minimal yet expansive brand of orchestral folk.

It's the elusive trifecta every working woman desperately seeks. Do you find yourself trying to be everything to everyone? The struggle is real and all too common. Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes are two award-winning, c-suite executives who together have accumulated 60 plus years of work experience at the highest levels, 60 years of marriage, and raised four successful children. In a transparent and relatable way, Paula and Lisa share personal experiences, insights and encouragement--what they wish they'd…

Mary Martin will lead this workshop on using plants and other natural dyes to make stunning and unique silk scarves. Each participant will dye 2 scarves and select another already done. $50. Limited to 12.

Mary Martin will lead this workshop on using plants and other natural dyes to make stunning and unique silk scarves. Each participant will dye 2 scarves and select another already done. $50. Limited to 12.

To be held as an annual event, this outdoor festival will feature live music and meals prepared on-site by seven local food trucks. WelcomeFEST will take place in the parking lot of Haywood Street Congregation (297 Haywood Street), where the free community meal known as the Downtown Welcome Table takes place, inside, every Wednesday and Sunday.

Celebrated folksinger, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Ashleigh Caudill, has a sense of style that is unique and beyond categorization. Her performances hum with an excitement in the crisp arrangements that lift each song. Caudill’s sweet yet powerful vocals draw the listener in to the tales she spins pleasing the ears of music lovers everywhere. If you like your music sophisticated, fun and honest, you need look no further.

Thirty years of celebrated live performances and songs covered by artists as diverse as Alison Krauss, Waylon Jennings, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, John Oates, Blackhawk and Dierks Bentley, JEFF BLACK is recognized as a pioneer in the modern music industry. Boston s WUMB listeners voted Jeff Black as one of the top 100 most important Folk artists of the last 25 years.

Growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, singer-songwriter Caleb Caudle was raised on rock n’ roll and Southern hospitality. Influenced by bands like The Clash and Velvet Underground, Caudle was playing North Carolina’s punk rock circuit by the age of 15. Naturally, his music matured with his age and he became more lyrically driven, adopting a love for collecting vinyl. In 2012, he decided to quit his day job and focus solely on music — five years and four albums later,…

For You To See The Stars is Radney Foster’s eleventh album. Foster has written eight number one hit singles, including his own “Nobody Wins,” and “Crazy Over You” with duo Foster & Lloyd. His discography contains countless cuts by artists ranging anywhere from country (Keith Urban, The Dixie Chicks, Luke Bryan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) to contemporary (Marc Broussard, Hootie & The Blowfish, Kenny Loggins, Los Lonely Boys). Although highly recognized and accomplished in the music world, Foster is a…

Beat the summer heat, grab a brew and shop our 11-day pop up shop featuring some of the area’s best in handmade and vintage. We’ve curated goods featuring over 75 independent vendors of handmade and vintage goods including clothing, jewelry, decor, greeting cards, and more. SUMMER POP UP SHOP Open August 16-26 | 11am-9pm Bhramari Brewing Company 101 S Lexington Ave, Asheville, NC 28801 For more details and a full list of vendors click the link above or visit: https://www.showandtellpopupshop.com/

Asheville is known for its vibrant arts community and now you, too, can become an artist—and take home a unique memento of the city! We’ve put together three of our most popular craft experiences for you to choose from! 12:30-3:30 PM: Locker Hooked Coaster. Locker hooking has been practiced in the Appalachian Mountains since the 19th century. In this workshop, we’ll show you how to take colorful batik fabrics and a beautiful ceramic tile made by local artist Carolyn Kinnison…

Beat the summer heat, grab a brew and shop our 11-day pop up shop featuring some of the area’s best in handmade and vintage. We’ve curated goods featuring over 75 independent vendors of handmade and vintage goods including clothing, jewelry, decor, greeting cards, and more. SUMMER POP UP SHOP Open August 16-26 | 11am-9pm Bhramari Brewing Company 101 S Lexington Ave, Asheville, NC 28801 For more details and a full list of vendors click the link above or visit: https://www.showandtellpopupshop.com/

Vance Gilbert‘s stellar songwriting, soaring vocals and crazy humor have made him one of the pre-eminent acoustic performers of today. A versatile artist, his influences range from Motown and R&B to classic Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell. As the Boston Globe put it, “He is that rare performer for whom people lean forward in their seats as eagerly between songs as they do during them.” “James Maddock possesses the kind of lived-in, craggy voice that would sound authoritative if he…

IKEBANA DEMONSTRATION AND LUNCHEON Ikenobo is the first ikebana school and is 555 years old. For any art form to survive, it has to evolve and today the ikenobo designs span the centuries from the original formal forms seen in monasteries to very modern free styles seen in galleries. Stephanie English will talk about and demonstrate these forms. Professor English has been active in ikebana and Ikenobo since 1993 and has achieved the rank of Sr. Professor, 1st grade, the…

In Counting Down, Deborah Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself, and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents--gay, straight, right, left, evangelical, and atheist--united by love, loss, and quality hand-me-downs. In Fall or Fly, Wendy Welch invites people bound by a code of silence…

BB Barns’ Cynthia Gillooly, aka the ‘Orchid Goddess’ will talk about and demonstrate the basics of growing and caring for orchids. $15

BB Barns’ Cynthia Gillooly, aka the ‘Orchid Goddess’ will talk about and demonstrate the basics of growing and caring for orchids. $15

The 48th Annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival, to be held at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center, will offer two nights of the finest traditional music and dance of the Southern Appalachian Region. Both nights will include a rich variety of the region's finest fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, ballad singers, buck dancers, and square dance teams as well as the marvelous sounds of dulcimer, harmonica, jew's harp, bagpipes, spoons, saws, and folk ensembles.

When Ultrafaux last performed in Asheville, they were co-headlining a sold-out show at Grey Eagle for the annual Django Birthday Party. They return on Friday August 31 for a very special intimate show at Isis Music Hall where they will be presenting some new compositions off of their upcoming CD. The show will feature a blend of jazz manouche, swing, musette, Balkan, funk, and be-bop styles.

Explore the world of spontaneous creation! Join Betsy Vingle and Matt Belay for a weekend dedicated to connecting with your authentic creative self. In a studio environment free of judgment and critique, learn how to paint for process rather than product, follow your energy and relate in a new way to the inner critic. This August marks Betsy and Matt’s twelfth year leading this workshop in Asheville. This weekend workshop is usually held at the Asheville Art Museum, which is…

Program Highlights: The evening will feature pianist, Christopher Tavernier. “Exploring New Horizons” with the “Great Piano Classics” and Christopher will astound the classical purists with his grace and technique. The program will begin with some of the most demanding classical music written by the world’s greatest composers and will combine his passion for classical music with today’s musical themes from Hollywood’s Greatest Mega-Hits.

Enjoy the last holiday weekend of summer experiencing what makes Chimney Rock the ideal place to play. Hike on one of the Park’s many trails or join Fox Mountain Guides for a real rock climbing experience. Cost: Included with Park admission.