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Work out for free at Stephens-Lee Community Center
Mar 21 all-day
Stephens-Lee Community Center
Asheville Parks & Recreation (APR) recently renovated fitness centers at Linwood Crump Shiloh and Stephens-Lee community centers – and community members can enjoy use of cardio equipment, exercise machines, free weights, open gym time, and more through June 30, 2023. During this time, APR will waive membership and daily pass fees so more people can access the necessities for a regular fitness routine. Locals can sign up online or at either community center to receive a fitness center key fob that can be scanned at either location.
“Our team is committed to creating spaces in which everyone feels welcome,” according to D. Tyrell McGirt, APR Director. “We are in the community building business. The gyms and fitness rooms at these two locations are filled with everything you’d expect from other top-notch fitness facilities and dedicated to body positivity and accessible wellness. By waiving the cost to use them for the first six months of the year, we hope more friends and neighbors will be able to connect with each other and maintain healthy lifestyles.”
Food Scraps Drop Off: Stephens-Lee Recreation Center
Mar 21 @ 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Stephens-Lee Recreation Center
Food Scraps Drop Off
The City of Asheville, in partnership with Buncombe County and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is offering a FREE Food Scrap Drop-Off program in
two locations for all Buncombe County residents. This organic matter will be collected and turned into good clean compost, keeping it OUT of our landfill and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Need a handy kitchen countertop food scrap bin? Let us know on the registration form! We’ll be having bin giveaways at city and county facilities and would love to give you one.
Locations
Stephens-Lee Recreation Center “Food Scrap Shed” next to the Community Garden on the North side of the parking lot
The City of Asheville, in partnership with Buncombe County and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is offering a FREE Food Scrap Drop-Off program in two locations for all Buncombe County residents. This organic matter will be collected and turned into good clean compost, keeping it OUT of our landfill and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Need a handy kitchen countertop food scrap bin? Let us know on the registration form! We’ll be having bin giveaways at city and county facilities and would love to give you one.
The WNC Farmers Market is the premier destination for buying and selling the region’s best agriculture products directly from farmers & food producers to household & wholesale customers in an environment that celebrates the region’s diverse culture, food & heritage.
House of Operation:
WNC Farmers Market: 24/7, 361 days a year market access for farmers
Office: Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm
Market Shops: 7 days a week, 8 am-5 pm
Wholesale and Truck Sheds: 7 days a week
An Abundance of Riches
Mar 21 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
NC Arboretum
Andrea Rich’s intricately designed, carved, and printed woodcuts draw viewers in for an up-close look.
Some of the artist’s earliest memories are of drawing animals. Childhood encounters with pets, livestock, and wildlife, including birds, deer, and toads, created a lasting connection to the natural world. Through encounters with creatures both tame and wild, Rich developed a fascination and a compassion for animals integral to her art.
“My prints are a visual record of the intriguing creatures that have enriched my life. The woodcut process challenges me to focus on the essence of my subjects. At the same time, I am drawn to the smell of the wood, its texture and grain, and the pleasure I experience while carving. I begin working on a block of wood and realize later that hours have passed without notice.”
Rich uses a centuries-old medium that requires one carved wood panel for each color – varying from one to sixteen – necessary to develop the composition. These panels are painstakingly aligned one atop another sequentially and pulled through a printing press to create the final woodcut.
The subjects of Rich’s woodcuts range from the wilderness of the Australian outback and the lush tropical Amazon forests to the roaring rivers of Yellowstone Park. Rich has traveled worldwide to study wildlife habitats and these varied firsthand experiences are reflected in her work.
Among Rich’s many achievements are international recognition for her woodcut prints, including a 2009 Award of Excellence from the Society of Animal Artists and a 2009 Medal of Excellence from the Artists for Conservation Foundation. She was named Master Artist by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in 2006. In 2010 her work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Canton, Massachusetts. Rich is a member of the California Society of Printmakers, Artists for Nature Foundation, the Society of Animal Artists, and Society of Wildlife Artists.
In 2000 Rich designated the Woodson Art Museum as the repository for her artistic oeuvre. An Abundance of Riches is drawn from these holdings, which include an example of each of her woodcuts created since the mid-1980s.
An Abstract Classicist: California Hard-Edge
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Bender Gallery
Johal’s process is part painstaking and part intuitive. She begins by arranging cut out shapes or creating sketches of the overall composition, which is of utmost importance, balanced and full of energy. She then transfers the design onto a sanded canvas using tape, templates, or other tools to achieve a clean hard edge. Now the music begins. Using high quality acrylic paints, Johal spontaneously applies color to the canvas, letting the music guide her choices. Her understanding of Color Theory is instinctive yet effective and, along with her forms, creates a kind of dance on the surface.
Angela Johal (b.1962), US, has a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) Magna Cum Laude from San Jose State University in San Jose, CA. Johal has taken part in solo and group exhibitions in prestigious institutes and such as de Young Museum, San Francisco, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco and in art galleries in LA, Boston, NY, Montreal, and more.
Do you have a love for art and creativity? Do you have some time on your hands? Are you interested in getting to know a terrific group of talented artists?
Volunteering at the Artists Collective | Spartanburg may be the right move for you. Come see what all the buzz is about and expand your circle of influence! We are actively seeking people to volunteer at the Collective in the retail role.
Now is the time to make a change and get out there! We will be happy to have you aboard.
Center for Craft: Cowork Office Available
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Center for Craft
Located on the second floor of our building downtown Asheville, North Carolina, Cowork at Center for Craft provides space for creative entrepreneurs and small businesses to work alongside each other while building community.
We have one private office available as well as our more flexible desk spaces! If you are local to Asheville or planning to relocate here soon, visit our page to learn about our plans and schedule a tour.
Some perks of being a Coworker in our space include strong and reliable internet, mail service, monthly conference room credits, complimentary color printing, a full kitchen, and access to a wide network of creative professionals.
Ways to Cowork
Private Office
$500–$1200
Unlimited access during extended hours
Direct fiber internet
14 hrs/month of conference room usage
Anchor Desk
$300
Unlimited access during extended hours
Dedicated desk space & storage
10 hrs/month of conference room usage
F/T Flex Plan
$200
Unlimited access during standard hours
Shared desk space
6 hrs/month of conference room usage
P/T Flex Plan
$150
Access 10 days/month during standard hours
Shared desk space
3 hrs/month of conference room usage
Exhibition: NEO MINERALIA
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Center for Craft
Photo credit:
Sae Honda. Courtesy of the Artist.
NEO MINERALIA suggests that recent rock formations no longer fit within the traditional groups: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary. Instead, the Anthropocene, the era of human influence on the climate and environment, has introduced two post-natural rocks: Synthetic and Digital.
NEO MINERALIA presents a selection of new geological specimens crafted by ten international artists exploring rocks as reflections of our effects on human and nonhuman ecologies. By embedding synthetic materials (plastics, e-waste) and layers of data points (critical, financial, social) into the craftsmanship of these artifacts, the artists transgress the definition of rocks, turning them from passive aggregates of minerals into metaphorical aggregates of data. Within their apparent “rockness” we can decode hopes, warnings, and speculative future scenarios.
The featured works stemming from places as varied as Mexico, Japan, Poland, and Australia (including a curated artists’ books library), collectively signal a new era of planetary and geological consciousness where we are asked to read, feel, and listen to rocks in new ways.
Exhibition: Something earned, Something left behind
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Center for Craft
Photo credit:
J Diamond, “Pony II,” 2022. Courtesy of the Artist
Something earned, Something left behind is an exhibition of objecthood; a critical analysis of the transactional and political languages of everyday and culturally significant objects. This exhibition challenges a history of exclusion and inclusion of People of Color (POC) and their narratives from the canon of craft based on subject matter. It dissects this history’s origins and precedent as an economic transaction to gain access to white spaces.
Racial and ethnic identity influences the way individuals perceive themselves, the way others perceive them, and the way they choose to behave. For this reason, People of Color are expected to perform certain roles in order to fit into hegemonic institutions. These roles can be an active shrinking of themselves and the racialized part of them, or a personal exploitation of their racialized selves. This exhibition addresses and redresses the ways narrowed populations have been included, and the ways in which they have been asked to participate.
Together, this work creates space for and legitimizes POC narratives with depth and care. The exhibiting artists’ practices work against institutionalized expectations of POC work, expanding discourse and inserting new subjectivity into the canon of craft art. It engages with a community hungry for the revitalization and resuscitation of non-Western voices within art spaces. This exhibition challenges the expectations of art from artists of marginalized backgrounds and embraces a new subjectivity of interrogating one’s inherited experiences.
Exhibition: Crafting Denim
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Center for Craft
Photo credit:
Photograph by Bowery Blue Makers
Jeans – with their standardized pockets, rivets, and denim – are so much a part of everyday wardrobes that they are easy to overlook. Yet, in workshops across the nation, independent makers are reevaluating the garment and creating jeans by hand, using antiquated equipment and denim woven on midcentury looms. Crafting Denim explores how and why jeans have come to exist at the intersections of industry and craft, modernity, and tradition.
A product of industrial factory production for over a century, jeans are being recast by a new cohort of small-scale makers including craftspeople like Ryan Martin of W.H. Ranch Dungarees, Takayuki Echigoya of Bowery Blue Makers, and Sarah Yarborough and Victor Lytvinenko of Raleigh Denim, who favor choice materials and small-batch fabrication. The jeans they make merge craft traditions with industry and extend the conversation between hand and machine.
Each maker creates a distinctive product but shares a deep appreciation for materials, tools, history, and denim. These jeans are in dialogue with the past and in line with contemporary interests in sustainability. The small workshops featured here are sites of innovation and preservation, and visitors are invited to take a close look at an everyday item and imagine alternative contexts for making and living in our own clothes.
Food Scraps Drop Off: West Asheville Library
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
West Asheville Library
Food Scraps Drop Off
The City of Asheville, in partnership with Buncombe County and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is offering a FREE Food Scrap Drop-Off program in
two locations for all Buncombe County residents. This organic matter will be collected and turned into good clean compost, keeping it OUT of our landfill and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Need a handy kitchen countertop food scrap bin? Let us know on the registration form! We’ll be having bin giveaways at city and county facilities and would love to give you one.
Locations
West Asheville Library – “Food Scrap Bin Shelters” on the south side of the building
Explore Biltmore House with an Audio Guide that introduces you to the Vanderbilt family and their magnificent home’s history, architecture, and collections of fine art and furnishings.
PLUS: Immersive, multi-sensory Italian Renaissance Alive exhibition created by Grande Experiences
PLUS: FREE next-day access to Biltmore’s Gardens and Grounds
This visit includes access to:
Italian Renaissance Alive at Amherst at Deerpark®
8,000 Acres of Gardens and Grounds for two consecutive days
Antler Hill Village & Winery
Complimentary Wine Tastings at the Winery
Tastings require a Day-of-Visit Reservation, which can be made by:
Scanning the QR Code found in your Estate Guide
Visiting any Guest Services location
Complimentary parking
Art Exhibition: Italian Renaissance Alive
This fascinating experience takes you on a spellbinding tour of Italy, fully immersing you in the beauty and brilliance of iconic masterworks from the greatest artistic period in history
Auditions: Readers Theatre: The Good, The Bad and The Guilty: A Trio of One-Acts
Mar 21 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
The Good, The Bad and The Guilty: A Trio of One-Acts
The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory Trifles by Susan Glaspell In the Shadow of the Glen by J.M. Synge
Directed by Margaret Crowell
AUDITION DATE: Tuesday, March 21, 2023; 10:30 am-2:30 pm on the Mainstage
PRODUCTION DATES: April 14-16, 2023; All performances at 2:30 pm; Friday and Saturday performances at Asheville Community Theatre, Sunday performance at the Reuter Center on the campus of UNCA
REHEARSALS: Tuesdays & Thursdays March 28, 30, April 4, 6, 11, and 13, 2023; 10:30 am-2:30 pm
DIRECTOR SEEKS: The Rising of the Moon – 4M Trifles – 3M, 2W In the Shadow of the Glen – 3M, 1W
Art Exhibit: RAUSCHENBERG: A Gift in Your Pocket
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Robert Rauschenberg, Autobiography, 1968
In the late 70s, Bradley Jeffries had a chance meeting with Robert Rauschenberg outside his home on Captiva Island, and they bonded immediately. Bradley was hired to be the artist’s business and life manager. Her employment with him for over 30 years, until his death in 2008, involved many roles on the Board of Directors of Change, Inc and The Rauschenberg Foundation. Bradley’s travels with Rauschenberg took her on incredible adventures all over the world and exposed her to extraordinary opportunities. Throughout their friendship and work together, Rauschenberg gifted Bradley with many of his original artworks.
The family and friends of Bradley Jeffries will use her expansive and never previously exhibited Rauschenberg collection as a means of memorializing Bradley through this traveling exhibition. “Rauschenberg: A Gift in Your Pocket” opens on April 25, 2022 at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College in Ft. Myers for display throughout the summer. After which her collection will travel to The University of Kentucky Art Museum followed by its culminating exhibition at BMCM+AC.
Once her collection of Rauschenberg’s artwork completes its planned memorial exhibitions, pieces will be donated to each of the involved institutions in an ongoing memorial to Bradley and her legacy of promoting the arts and artists.
Curated by Jade Dellinger, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College.
Asheville Gallery of Art “Awakenings” Group Show
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Asheville Gallery of Art
Asheville Gallery of Art’s March show, “Awakenings” features work by three new Gallery members: Jon Sebastian, Sara Bell, Andrea Stutesman. The show runs daily March 1 through March 31st, 2023 during gallery hours, 11am-6pm. An opening reception will be held March 3, 5-8pm; everyone is welcome.
The three artists will showcase their passion through three mediums, respectively. Not unlike the delicate and elusive trillium of the North Carolina mountain beds, these artists spring forward in the presentation of “Awakenings.” As featured artists of the month, Andrea Stutesman, Sara Bell, and Jon Sebastian join forces in presenting this amazing show by rendering their art using pastels, watercolors, and oil paints. Mesmerizing spring colors will grace the windows and walls of the gallery, rendering imagery of flowers, exotic and endangered animals, and vibrant landscapes. “Awakenings” is the second of three group shows featuring new artists to the gallery.
Andrea Stutesman
Andrea’s early art explorations began with pastels under the guidance of her mother, an accomplished painter. Her work is from the heart, inspired by her interactions with people and places or by the stories brought to her with requests for commissions. She strives to transform a sense of calm and connection that she experiences when painting that will invite viewers to slow down and enjoy the beauty of life.
Jon Sebastian
Art and painting in particular is, for artist Jon Sebastian, the selective recreation of reality according to his own principles and what he deems interesting and just in this world we share. Jon cannot remember a time when he did not paint. At Asheville Gallery of Art, Jon is now moving forward with confidence that others will find his works a compelling addition to their own collections. Jon paints immersive works filled with color, light and shadow. His subjects are of nature and of the peace and spirituality in which they envelope us.
Sara Bell
Sara Bell has always loved drawing. It’s a form of meditation for her and has now become a way for her to find peace and sanity when her world gets too overwhelming, which, as a single mom with a neuro-divergent teen, happens quite often. When it does, Sara follows John Muir’s quote, “Off into the woods I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” The results of these adventures are delightful sketches and photography of the forests. Sara then works from her photos to create her watercolors and intaglio prints.
Come visit this engaging and thoughtful exhibition at 82 Patton Avenue in downtown Asheville. For further information about this show, contact the Asheville Gallery of Art at (828) 251-5796, visit the Gallery’s website at ashevillegallery-of-art.com, or go to the Gallery’s Facebook page.
The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Biltmore Estate
Included with admission
Back by popular demand, The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad exhibition offers guests:
An opportunity to view rarely-seen treasures from the Biltmore collection
A first-hand look at the Vanderbilts’ lifestyle
Deeper insights into George, Edith, and Cornelia’s personalities, both at home and on their extensive travels
Access to exhibitions at The Biltmore Legacy is included with Biltmore daytime admission.
Community Chat: Social and Emotional Learning in Youth Gardens
Mar 21 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
online
Join this Community Chat to ask your questions and share ideas about all things related to social and emotional learning (SEL) in any youth garden setting! We can chat about ways to use gardens as a SEL resource for different age groups, ideas for creating healing garden spaces, activities to practice social skills, and anything else you’d like to discuss. From those new to gardening to seasoned educators, everyone is welcome.
We are seeking volunteers to assist us in our small after school program for children in West Asheville in low-income housing. We provide a safe and nourishing environment, healthy snacks, and creative activities. Our program currently meets during the school year on most Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:00-5:00pm. You may volunteer for one or two days a week.
Volunteer Responsibilities:
Assist with serving snacks
Interact with children during activity time
Supervise games and outdoor free time
For people with background in education, there is also an opportunity to assist with curriculum development and program planning and administration
Please join us for the Ribbon Cutting and Ground Breaking Ceremony of Bullington Gardens.
Bullington Gardens is a nonprofit botanical garden in Hendersonville, NC, their mission is to connect children and adults with natural world through science based horticultural education; to demonstrate the beauty of plants, and to enhance life skills for those with challenges through horticultural therapy.
This Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is to thank donors who gave funding for the new restrooms, Tourism Development Authority, Mary Louise Corn, Ray & Judith McKenzie and Wheels in the Woods Foundation.
This Ground Breaking Ceremony is to thank donors who gave funding for the new parking lot, Perry Rudnick Foundation/Community Foundation of Henderson County.
LEGO Builders Club
Mar 21 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Pack Memorial Library
Come down the Pack Memorial Library and play with LEGOs!
Show off your building skills and make new friends with other LEGO maniacs.
Please leave your personal LEGOs at home, because we’ve got plenty.
School Age – (grades K-5)
Every Tuesday 1/2 off bottles of wine at 131 Main Restaurant
Mar 21 @ 5:00 pm
131 Main Restaurant
Every Tuesday 1/2 off bottles of wine at 131 Main Restaurant
CC5k Trainings with YMCA
Mar 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Chamber Parking Lot ofAsheville Area Chamber
With special thanks to our training sponsor, YMCA of Western North Carolina, the Chamber is offering personal training opportunities with YMCA’s trainer Suzanne Ion. Meet in the Chamber parking lot for a brief warm-up then head out with the group in a session designed to move you from the couch to the race course!
Sessions are every Tuesday, March 21 thru April 25th. The last session will be a preview run/walk of the actual Chamber Challenge 5k course beginning at the Chamber, winding through historic Montford and finishing in the parking lot once again.
These training sessions are open to anyone — whether you’ve registered to participate in the event or not! But in case you DO want to join in, go here to see more details, more training tips, and to register: www.chamberchallenge.org
We recommend you bring your own water bottle. The doors to the Visitor Center will be open 5:00-5:30 on training days so you can come in to get water, use the restroom, etc.
Grab a friend and join us!
The 2023 Chamber Challenge 5k Race is presented by EATON and Quility.
Want to look snazzy? Our Supporting Sponsor, Big Frog Custom T-Shirts, would like to see everyone in full color, customized shirts specific to your team. You can buy four team shirts with one sided print for $10 each (plus tax). **Direct to garment print. XXL and larger are additional as other garments.
$150 for a team of 4
$100 to sponsor a school team
Dark City Poet’s Society
Mar 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Black Mountain Library
Great news for poets and poetry lovers: Dark City Poet’s Society is returning to the Black Mountain Library. DCPS is a completely free poetry group that is open to poets of all ages and experience levels. Join us at the Black Mountain Library from 6-7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month for our (respectful) critique group. DCPS will meet at BAD Craft from 6-7 p.m. on the third Tuesday for our monthly open mic Poetry Night. Find out more on Instagram @darkcitypoetssociety or contact the Black Mountain Library.
The Right to Readis directed by Jenny Mackenzie and produced by Sabi Habib-Lowder, Kareem Jabbar Weaver, and Jenny Mackenzie.
The movie shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.
Asheville Fringe Festival: STANDING ((IN)) WAVES
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Revolve Gallery
FREE RANDOM ACT OF FRINGE
STANDING ((IN)) WAVES BY CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON
An ocean awaits – stand and let it wash over you. Swelling, ebbing, flowing. Bathe your body and brain in a vibrational experience of infrasonic sound. Interact with the invisible, let the invisible interact with you. Additional sonic ingredients may also be included, in various combinations – 10kHz Soundwich, Radio Infrequencies, Gallows Guitar Humours.
“Utilizing stereo subwoofers, a unique crossover/integrator, and modular synthesis tools, infrasonic frequencies will be produced with a very slow modulation of frequency rate. Additional extremely low frequency waveforms will be produced due to an acoustic phenomenon known as heterodyning, or beat frequencies. Frequencies just below and at the threshold of human low frequency hearing will be utilized, which also correspond to brainwave and mental states. The audience will be able to explore the slowly shifting standing waves of sound, walking through peaks and troughs and discovering interference nodes, or remain stationary and allow the waves to shift around them.
CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON
Chris Hamilton explores the sensory boundaries between hearing and touch, often in the context of ambient music and sound work. For this installation performance piece for Asheville Fringe Festival 2023, his focus is on crafting an immersive sonic experience through modular synthesis, electronic music, and thrift store radios. A background in hearing science (Doctor of Audiology) informs the acoustic/auditory approach and exploration of experimental and ambient sound.
KODO ONE EARTH TOUR 2023: TSUZUMI
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm
Peace Concert Hall
Feel the reverberations of heaven and earth in harmony with this all-new performance from internationally renowned taiko performing arts ensemble, KODO. Entitled “Tsuzumi,” this explosive performance, created to commemorate the ensemble’s 40th anniversary, will electrify, dazzle and uplift audiences of all ages. Guided by three words that underpin the KODO mission – living, learning, creating – the visceral sound of KODO’s taiko drumming explores the limitless possibilities of the traditional Japanese drum forging new directions for a vibrant living artform. KODO has given over 6,500 performances in five continents cementing the ensemble as a global phenomenon like no other. Don’t miss a beat!
Quinn Sullivan / Veronica Lewis
Mar 21 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle
– ALL AGES – SEATED SHOW – LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE
This spring, 22-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist Quinn Sullivan is set to release WIDE AWAKE, his new studio album, via Mascot Label Group/Provogue.
A rare artist who’s always sounded older than his years, Sullivan has been touring the world since he was 11-years-old, playing storied venues such as Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl and RFK Stadium in Washington D.C., as well as India’s Mahindra Blues Festival, Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, and three Montreux Jazz Festivals. Quinn has shared the stage with his hero and mentor Buddy Guy, as well as Carlos Santana on several occasions. Quinn’s performance experience includes appearances on leading national television programs such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, andThe Oprah Winfrey Show, to name a few.
This Massachusetts native has taken the abundant skills of his youth and now, as a young adult, is letting them blossom and steer him into new directions of artistry and creativity. “I want to stay true to where I come from, and go from there,” says Sullivan. “The artists that inspire me to do that are always hungry for the new. They never repeat themselves. They just grow and become more unique — and that’s what I aim to do as an artist.”
Having developed genuinely jaw-dropping skills as a guitar player, Sullivan’s more recent learning curve has been with pen and paper. “I’ve always considered myself a songwriter,” he says. “On the last few records, it just wasn’t something I was doing all the time. I was focused on other things, like my guitar playing and developing my vocals, both of which I continue to do.” Since the release of 2017’s MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY, Sullivan has evolved into the singer-songwriter genre while effectively highlighting his guitar mastery.
Veronica Lewis is one of the most exciting, emerging talents in the Indie Roots world. Bending genres from the Bayou to the north country, Lewis combines the true language of the Blues with the energy of early rock ‘n rollers. A teenage prodigy, piano player, singer & prolific songwriter who is ”changing the game and upping the ante”, says American Blues Scene. With the release of her critically acclaimed, Chart-topping, debut album “You Ain’t Unlucky”, 18-year-old Veronica Lewis, is poised to bring new generations back under that big old revival tent that is Blues and Roots rock and roll. A mesmerizing live performer with serious piano chops, soaring vocals, and trailblazing original songs, Veronica gives her audience “every last drop, every single time”.
“You Ain’t Unlucky” blasted Veronica Lewis’ career off to a mind-blowing start, debuting at Number #2 on the Billboard Blues charts, #1 on iTunes Blues chart, and landing the title Track ‘You Ain’t Unlucky’ as the Number #1 Blues Song of The Year 2021 (Root Music Report), and snagging two Blues Music Nominations in 2022 for Best Emerging Artist Album & Piano Player of the Year.
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Exhibition: Something earned, Something left behind
Exhibition: Crafting Denim
Food Scraps Drop Off: West Asheville Library
Healing Dolls Exhibition
Italian Renaissance Alive
Auditions: Readers Theatre: The Good, The Bad and The Guilty: A Trio of One-Acts
Asheville Gallery of Art “Awakenings” Group Show
The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad
Community Chat: Social and Emotional Learning in Youth Gardens
Elementary After-School Volunteer Creative Peacemakers
Ribbon Cutting + Ground Breaking: Bullington Gardens
LEGO Builders Club
