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The Big Crafty

Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Voted WNC’s favorite art event for the past decade, The Big Crafty returns for a day of hand-to-heart art & craft on Saturday & Sunday December 7 & 8 from 12-6pm at Asheville’s US Cellular Center. Join us for a trip through the creative landscape, with 150 creative venturers and total art stars, craft-infused good […]

Winter Exhibition Celebration at Blowing Rock Art & History Museum

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane , Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States

Please join BRAHM (Blowing Rock Art & History Museum) for a special event that celebrates the opening of the 2019 winter exhibits. Featured Exhibits include: "Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective" November 9, 2019 - February 22, 2020 "Sound Machines: Stringed Instruments by the Capozzoli Guitar Company" November 23, 2019 - March 7, 2020 […]

Free

Folk Art Center: Holiday Makers Sale

Folk Art Center Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC, United States

Looking for the perfect holiday gifts? Rather than heading to the crowded malls this season, shop inside the festive Folk Art Center at the Holiday Makers Sale. The auditorium will be filled with makers of the Guild liquidating overstocks and annual inventory of fine crafts 10-50% off. This is the best opportunity to find deals […]

White Squirrel Festival

Downtown Brevard Brevard, NC, United States

In Brevard, We Celebrate Our White Squirrel Population! Featuring two-and-a-half days of great live music, crafts, and food, the White Squirrel Festival in Downtown Brevard, NC is the perfect way to experience everything this charming mountain community has to offer.  Best of all it’s FREE!  It has earned the reputation for showcasing many undiscovered artists […]

Free

Blue Ridge Fiber Fest

Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds Highway 21 N @ Bledsoe Creek Road, Sparta, NC, United States

Offering vendors, workshops, fiber animals and demonstrations. The festival is being held at the Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds and Agricultural Center, U.S. 21, Sparta, Alleghany County, NC, Friday and Saturday from 9 AM until 5 PM.

Blue Ridge Fiber Fest

Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds Highway 21 N @ Bledsoe Creek Road, Sparta, NC, United States

Offering vendors, workshops, fiber animals and demonstrations. The festival is being held at the Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds and Agricultural Center, U.S. 21, Sparta, Alleghany County, NC, Friday and Saturday from 9 AM until 5 PM.

A Walk with the Curator

Join Turchin Center Curator and Creative Director Mary Anne Redding for a fascinating walking tour through the six Turchin Center galleries, highlighting four new exhibitions! The exhibitions feature a blend of contemporary work by nationally and internationally renowned artists that tell stories and provide a voice to often unheard perspectives on current and historical issues. […]

Many Faces: A Cherokee Mask Exhibit

Museum of the Cherokee People 598 Tsali Blvd., NC, Cherokee, NC, United States

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian celebrated the grand opening of its newest exhibit, Many Faces: A Cherokee Mask Exhibit. This exhibit showcases the masks, the people who made them, and the traditions and customs behind their creation and use. Many Faces is designed to provide visitors with accurate, detailed, and insightful information into Cherokee […]

$7.00 – $12.00

The Yadkin Arts Councils Virtual Awards Ceremony – Annual Juried Art Show Competition

The competition will be judged by the illustrious Curator and Artist, Lindsay Piper Potter-Figueird. Due to the extension in Phase Two restrictions, the Juried Art Show Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony has been converted to a virtual event. Join them at 5:30pm on July 9th as they give a tour of the gallery and award […]

Sunflower Embroidery Workshop: A Virtual Event from the Vance Birthplace

Join us on Zoom for a virtual sewing circle! Before COVID-19, we planned to host a few Sewing Circle events at the Vance Birthplace this summer. Since we can’t hold these workshops in person, we are going to try it virtually! Join us on Zoom for an afternoon of hand embroidery. Using a design based […]

$20.00

On These Walls: An Inside Look at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

Join us for a fun and informative journey through the Turchin Center, featuring areas of the building that aren’t generally open to the public and informal chats with the staff as they engage in preparations for the exhibition, education and outreach programming that defines the center’s mission. Available via YouTube, Facebook, appsummer.org  

We welcome submission of Western North Carolina events focused on our heritage themes of mountain music, crafts, foodways, outdoors and Cherokee culture. Please submit two weeks in advance.

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