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The Asheville Art Museum invites you to join a member of the Asheville Art Museum’s Docents on a guided tour of the exciting exhibitions "Looking Forward" and "Looking Back" on Friday, February 12, 2010 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Art Breaks are free with Museum Membership or admission. "Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum" explores the Museum’s collection of American art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an interest in the art of the Southeast and Western North Carolina and celebrates the generosity of collectors and community supporters who have helped build this extraordinary resource over the last six decades. This exhibition features artworks by Janet Fish, Maud Gatewood, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Moskowitz, Nathan Oliveira, William Lester Stevens and others. In 2008, Museum staff, board and volunteers examined the Museum’s collection focus and works in the collection to create a collection growth plan. The growth plan was developed to identify the strengths of the permanent collection and areas where the collection needs further advancement. Looking Forward: New Works and New Directions for the Permanent Collection notes the significance of the Asheville Art Museum’s permanent collection as it exists today and looks forward to its continued growth in the coming years. It also showcases some of the areas in which the Museum has collected in depth, including work by Black Mountain College artists, Cherokee artists and Western North Carolina studio craft artists. This exhibition features works in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics and drawing. Included in the exhibition is photography by Larry Clark and paintings by Thornton Dial, Kenneth Noland and John Urbain. The Asheville Art Museum is the only nonprofit visual arts museum serving the 24 counties of Western North Carolina. Incorporated by artists in 1948, the Museum collects, preserves and interprets American art of the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on work of significance to the Southeast. Centrally located in downtown Asheville on Pack Square, the Museum is open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. Special docent-guided tour packages are available for groups and students. Admission to the Museum is $8.00 for adults and $7.00 for seniors, students with ID and for children 4-15 (children age three and younger are admitted free). Members are admitted free to the Museum. For more information, please visit www.ashevilleart.org. (Image provided by Buncombe County.)
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