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March Events at Asheville Art Museum Include Films, Readings
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The Asheville Art Museum has a full schedule of events planned for March. Patrons can enjoy talks, screenings, and readings this month.
- Friday, March 14, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Art Break, The Garden Quilt
With Clara Curtis, North Carolina Arboretum Director for Design
Free with Museum Membership or admission
Museum’s WNC Resource Center
Enjoy learning more about the popular seasonal landscape quilt garden Clara Curtis creates at the N.C. Arboretum.
- Friday, March 14, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Up for Discussion, Nace Brock Photos Revealed
With Stephen Fletcher, UNC – Chapel Hill Wilson Library Photo Archivist
Free with Museum Membership or admission
Museum’s WNC Resource Center
Photo archivist Stephen Fletcher will showcase several previously unseen images by photographer Nace Brock during this informative discussion of the artist’s work.
- Film Screening, Guerrillas in our Midst
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium
Free
This politically-pointed 1994 documentary presents a savvy exploration of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s. The Guerrilla Girls have succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the art world’s agenda and their witty, creative tactics are showcased in this film by director Amy Harrison.
- Friday, March 28, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Art Break, Expectant Gaze—Art from the Eye and Mind
With Asheville Art Museum Docents
Free with Museum Membership or admission
Museum’s 2ND floor galleries
A member of the Asheville Art Museum Docents will discuss Guest Curator Roger Manley’s recent installation drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection of American art from the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Sunday, March 30, 2:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading with North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer
Free, Holden Community Gallery
The work of North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer depicts people during a time of love, marriage and child-rearing set against the larger background of natural and cultural history.
Museum visitors will no doubt feel Byer’s poems have a meaningful and timeless connection to the photographs of Nace Brock as she reads her work.
This special event is sponsored by Brunk Auctions.
- Monday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Guerrilla Girls Talk / Performance
$18 general admission, $16 Museum Members, $14 students
Asheville Community Theatre
During this event, the famous feminist masked avengers known as the Guerrilla Girls will talk about their work, philosophy of activism while campaigning against an appalling lack of ethics in the art world.
To purchase tickets call 828.254.1320 or go to www.ashevilletheater.org and click on the buy tickets now button to reserve your seat.
Don’t forget that the Guerrilla Girls will be conducting a hands-on workshop at the Asheville Art Museum Tuesday, April 1 starting at 10:00 a.m.
Space for the workshop is limited and advance registration is required. To register for the workshop, please contact Nancy Sokolove at the Asheville Art Museum, 828.253.3227, ext. 120.
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. The Museum is open every Friday until 8:00 p.m. Special docent-guided tour packages are available for groups and students.
Admission to the Museum is $6.00 for adults and $5.00 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.
(Images provided by the Asheville Art Museum.)
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