Calendar of Events

Reclaimed Creations is a unique sculpture exhibit created by renowned artist Sayaka Ganz. Utilizing reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, Ganz creates amazing sculptures that visually appear unified at a distance, but are in fact separated when examined up close. Described as using a “3D impressionistic” style, Ganz’s exhibit includes installations of animals in motion, which are in rich in color and energy, to create an illusion of form.

About the Artist

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Ganz grew up living in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A lecturer and teacher, Ganz’s work has been displayed at various institutions around the globe, including the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina, Italy, the Isle Gallery in Isle of Man, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

My work is about perceiving harmony, even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. When observing my sculptures up close, one might see gaps, holes and items being held on only by small points; step away, however, and the sculptures reveal the harmony created when the objects are aligned to the same general (but not identical) direction. Similarly, it is important to gain perspective by stepping back from current problems and look at the larger picture. Then one can perceive the beauty and patterns that exist.”

The Best (and Easiest) Marketing Planning Workshop for (Busy) Growing Businesses!

Are you a busy business owner struggling to tell your business story? Are you ready to reach the right customers (instead of all the wrong ones)?? Are you stuck in the marketing weeds?

Let Kudzu take over!

Kudzu Brands, the region’s best branding and marketing agency for growing businesses can help you develop a simple and effective marketing plan to get you growing in the right direction!

We want ALL businesses to be successful! We are offering this special half-day intensive group workshop, featuring our proprietary marketing planning process offered at half the cost!

Working with one of our highest level strategists, and other business owners just like you, you will cultivate your plan for success including identifying your ideal client, crafting your key marketing messages and establishing goals and effective tactics for your businesses’ growth.

Upon completion of this workshop, your direction will be clear and you will know the steps needed to grow you brand in the market!

Tickets are only $350 – a $3,500 value if booked one on one with Kudzu’s Brand Strategist!

Workshop Includes:

Activities and exercises to identify your ideal client and tactics to engage them

Goal setting and tactics to reach them

Brand and marketing education from the experts

Networking and brainstorming with other business owners just like you!

Tangible next steps for your growth and success!

Access to Kudzu Brands proprietary planning tools

A GREAT start on a great (and effective) plan

Breakfast, coffee, and snacks will be provided.

Murphy Funkhouser Capps
CEO of Kudzu Brands, Brand Strategist, Business Speaker, Storyteller
Whether putting her client’s brands in the spotlight or entertaining audiences herself, Murphy Funkhouser Capps believes that “everyone has a story”.

A firm believer that success is not always a “straight line”, Murphy is known for her empathy for the entrepreneur’s journey and her passion for helping businesses grow. Murphy brings creativity, insight and excitement to her business, her speaking and her performances. About Murphy, clients have said, “Murphy is gifted in sensing and expressing a business’s personality and vision. She also has a particular talent for seeing creative ways of sharing that personality and vision with the world.”

Murphy serves the world in several ways including as CEO, co-founder and Creative Director at Kudzu Brands, a full service branding and marketing agency based in Asheville, NC. Murphy is also an accomplished speaker and educator, storyteller, performer, and playwright (just ask about the baggage).

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Christmas at Biltmore Daytime Celebration*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Sunday, January 6, 2019 (daily)

*Included with estate admission.
*Does not include “Candlelight Christmas Evenings”

Experience the holidays wreathed with the wonder of Biltmore. Our celebration presents Christmas on a grand scale with more than 55 trees decorated by our talented staff, accented with miles of ribbon, garlands, and lights. Festive menus in our restaurants and holiday wine tastings make for a memorable visit.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

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Learn the basics of clogging and flatfoot in a beautiful studio with a wooden floor and mirrors. My teaching philosophy is to dance more and talk less, so expect to sweat. As I teach, I will try to leave no one behind and will work to challenge the quick learners.

$65/4 weeks or $18/class

Please register by contacting Linda Block, 828-683-8433, [email protected], or through FB.

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When reflecting on the current state of the environment, it seems that we have entered into times of seismic sorrows. Carbon emissions, water pollution, fracking, and changing climate patterns all point to a troubling reality with serious consequences for human and non-human populations. Through weavings, installations, sculpture, and print, artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg (Tulsa, OK) explore the complex relationship between humans and the planet, offering insights, expressing grief, and creating space for resilience and change.

In Time of Seismic Sorrows is curated by Marilyn Zapf and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The South has always been home to a blend of cultures — from Native Americans here by 14,000 years ago to Europeans 500 years ago, followed by Africans forced to migrate. By 1500, cultures in the South included Creek, Cherokee, Catawba, Choctaw, Chitimacha, and Coushatta, from Europe English, Scottish, Irish, and German, and Africans from Senegal to Congo. Baskets were integral in daily life, as agricultural equipment for gathering, sifting, storing, and serving the finished product or as receptacles for tools, clothes, sacred objects, and even infants.

Initially each culture had its own preferred basket material and method of manufacture — twilled rivercane for Native Americans, plaited oak for Europeans, and coiled grasses for Africans. Interaction between groups spurred adaptations to changing circumstances, such as the use of white oak by the Cherokee in the 1800s, as rivercane stands were decimated by European settlements. Native Americans also adopted the European picnic, flower, egg, and market baskets to sell in the 20th-century art market. Native and European Americans wove honeysuckle into baskets after 1854, when introduced from Japan. By the 17th century African Americans discovered bulrush along the coasts, coiling it into large, round “fanners” to winnow rice. Later bulrush was one medium among sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto, giving rise to the name “sweetgrass baskets” along the coast.

Baskets were woven not only for use in the fields and homes or for sale in art galleries but also as a connection to ancestors and spirits, as designs were said to come from inside one’s head, from memories of one’s mother’s motifs, or from the Creator. Indeed, working with one’s hands in nature to gather materials and to form them into a basket was considered spiritually and physically healthy, becoming a part of the practice of occupational therapy around World War I.

Today, basketweavers in the South from all three traditions are teaching the next generation to continue this art. Artists from across the region work with old and new materials in old and new forms, innovating for their legacy, for art’s sake, and for political causes, as embodied in the varied vessels in this gallery and epitomized in the virtuosic miniature examples in the case at right.

Join us for our next session of LIFE@Western Carolina. Jim Holtzman has been invited to speak on the topic of “The Impact of the Baby Boomer Generation and Technology on the Rise and Fall of Local Television News”.
This presentation will be held on the 3rd floor of the WCU campus building at Biltmore Park.

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We think you need a break. Join Nikolina Thursday mornings at 12PM to relax & renew with our Restorative Yoga class! There’s no shame in the prop game – grab as many bolsters, blankets, and blocks as your heart desires, because the goal of this class is total and complete relaxation.
*Beginner Friendly

Try this class as part of our Intro Special – One week of UNLIMITED YOGA for only $20!

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WNCAP and the Asheville Masonic Temple present portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt the week leading up to World AIDS Day. Come witness this moving display of humanity in the face of tragedy. Free and open to all.

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Enjoy a visit to Christmas pasts from the 1840s to the 1890s. Each room contains antique and reproduction decorations and traditions. Four live trees, one of which will be decorated with traditional Appalachian decorations, hand made by our SMH over History club.
Admission at the door $9 adults, $5 children/students, free for WNC Historical Association members and A-B Tech students.
Group tours may be requested at 828-253-9231
Special 12 Days of Christmas Scavenger Hunt for children.

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Thursdays 11am-1:30pm
October 18- December 13
No class November 22

Tile murals can beautifully enhance your kitchen, bathroom, or outside sidewalks and paths. Students will design their own ceramic tiles using the slab roller and press molds, then incorporate ideas and imagery through carving, sgraffito, Mishima, and ceramic decals. Underglazes, glazes, and firing will be covered. Finally, we will learn how to install these finished pieces indoor or outdoor.

Level: All Levels
Tuition: $310 + $50 Lab Fee

FREE Santa Photos will be available at the center through December 24 at the The North Carolina Arboretum sponsored Santa Set. Every family who visits Santa at Asheville Outlets will receive two FREE 4” x 6” Santa photo prints and a digital download of a single image. Free Santa Photos is hosted by Great Beginnings Lead To Great Smiles.

(Additional photos and Christmas merchandise are available for purchase. One giveaway per family, per Christmas season. Some restrictions may apply. Valid only through December 24, 2018.)

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FREE Santa Photos are back at Asheville Outlets (ShopAshevilleOutlets.com)! From November 17th through December 24th, every family who visits Santa will receive two FREE 4”x6” Santa photo prints and a digital download of a single image. Additional photos and Christmas merchandise are available for purchase. FREE Santa photo is sponsored by Great Beginnings Great Smiles; the FREE Santa photo set is sponsored by North Carolina Arboretum Winter Lights.

Santa’s Photo Hours are:
11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday – Saturday, Sundays, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. and Christmas Eve, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Santa takes a break to feed his reindeer weekdays and Saturdays: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. + 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sundays, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Located at food court. One giveaway per family, per Christmas season. Some restrictions may apply, valid only through December 24, 2018.

Join FSI at Juicy Lucys for lunch or dinner or take out on November 29 and they will donate 15% of the sales to our school. PLEASE MENTION FSI when you order. If we raise between $500 and $1,000 for our school, they will donate more!

They not only have the best burgers in town but they have awesome apps, the best milkshakes in town, pork, chicken, salads and seafood!

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For the month of November ,local artists Patricia Cotterill and Darryl Maleike will be featured in the F.W. Gallery at Woolworth Walk.

Patricia is an oil painter living in Asheville and working out of her studio at Riverside Studios in the River Arts District. Patricia was born in Scotland and now resides in Asheville, NC. After graduating from Art College in Lincoln England with a graphic design degree, she worked designing branding for major companies. She later managed retail displays for a chain of department stores throughout the south of England. After several years living in Europe, the middle East, and Asia, her husband’s work brought the family to the US. She paints animal life, figures, and still life. As a child, aged eight, she remembers her first paint by numbers kit for oils. Pure joy! Patricia work has appeared on the NBC set of Parenthood and HGTV’s Urban Oasis for the West Asheville house. The color scheme for the whole house was based on one of her cow paintings. Patricia works quickly covering a black toned canvas, first sketching the subject onto the canvas. She then blocks in the shapes and applies color to the canvas. Trying to capture the feeling she wants to express with a few brush strokes, because she doesn’t want to get lost in the details until the end. Believing that working in this way causes the viewer to have some emotional response as she does, and she thinks they also get the sense of her journey when they view her paintings. Patricia decided to have a little fun with her favorite subject, animals, for this body of work, ANCESTRAL PORTRAITS. The animals she has painted must have had ancestors somewhere, so why not have them dressed in the style of yesteryear. It was fun for her to research clothing from previous centuries, then to decide which style would work with which animal. She worked quickly and loosely to capture the look of a bygone period and expressions on their faces! Lord Sly, stands in his stately library thinking about the days hunt for rabbits! Marie Antoinette Opossum may be dreaming of her love, Louis XVI. Patricia invites you to come and see these animal characters, and a few others, hopefully to make you think about your own ancestors!

Maleike has been living and making books in Asheville NC since 2003. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Illinois University, he spent many years travelling and photographing the country. In 1998 Darryl landed at Penland School of Crafts in Penland NC. This is where he took his first bookmaking class. “It is such a different way of working with my hands,” is the reason he gives for switching from photography to bookmaking. In 2000 Darryl became a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Crafts, where he began to concentrate on bookmaking. After two years there, he moved to Gatlinburg TN to be an Artist-in-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Darryl is a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and continues to make one of a kind functional journals and what he calls “The Original Beer Carton Book.”

Come meet Patricia and Darryl and enjoy the opening reception on Friday, November 2nd from 5-7 p.m.

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If you would like to learn about Pisgah Legal Services and the work we do to assist people living in low-incomes in need of free civil legal help, then RSVP for our Information Session on Thur. 11/29 to [email protected]. Lunch will be provided so please RSVP no later than Thur. Nov. 22.

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The Haen Gallery, located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, is proud to present their 12th Annual Lynn Boggess Exhibition. The exhibit will run through November.

Lynn Boggess is one of the most unique and noteworthy American landscape painters of the 21st Century. He resides in West Virginia, a state whose diverse mountains, forests, and rivers provide abundant inspiration for the artist’s plein air paintings. In place of brushes he uses palette knives and trowels to thickly layer the broad sweeping strokes and exquisite fine detail that capture all the colors of the seasons in rushing rivers, snow covered hillsides, and thick forest vegetation. Mr. Boggess’ work is recognized internationally for its incredible three-dimensional texture, rendered solely in oils. These remarkable paintings combine elements of Abstract Expressionism and Photorealism to create a style that is totally unique and original.

The Haen Gallery in Asheville is located at 52 Biltmore Avenue between City Bakery and Chestnut. There is a parking garage at the Aloft hotel across the street, another garage just up the hill, as well as street parking.

The gallery is open Monday through Saturday 11am-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm. For more information: 828-254-8577 or www.thehaengallery.com. Gallery contacts: Chris Foley, Director; Leslie Logemann, Gallery Manager.

With locations in Asheville and Brevard, The Haen Gallery offers the work of established artists whose distinctive and unique style sets it apart from ordinary and imitative efforts. Visit the website at thehaengallery.com.

As Virginia Woolf said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food and water are essential for survival, but mankind’s relationship to food has transformed over time from one of sustenance to one laden with personal and cultural significance.

A Matter of Taste explores depictions of food and drink in art and reveals how images of fruits and vegetables can function as complex metaphors for excess, status, memory, and politics. Drawn from southern museums and private collections, this exhibition showcases over 35 paintings, decorative arts, and works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Claes Oldenburg.

This show spans 400 years and multiple continents, revealing the evolving role of food and drink in various media and cultural contexts. While depictions of fruit and vegetables appeared in ancient times, still life painting as an independent genre dates to 16th-century Holland.

In 19th-century America, still life paintings remained popular but evolved in terms of subject matter, media, and message. Painters such as Thomas Wightman, George Forster, and De Scott Evans embraced Dutch still lifes and used food as commentary on the current political climate and the transient state of the human condition.

Illustrated newspapers led to an increase of cartoons by artists such as Winslow Homer and William Hogarth, who utilized food and drink as social satire. The 20th-century modern art movement further changed the perception of food. The culture of mass production enabled Pop artists to elevate seemingly mundane foodstuffs to high art. Yet, other contemporary artists explored the symbolic and nostalgic role of food seen in works by Tim Tate, Linda Armstrong, and Laquita Thomson.

Visitors will also experience an elaborately set dining table fit for a sumptuous feast. Dining became its own art form over time and communicated one’s social standing and wealth. Each of the table’s six place settings represent a different culture and offer a glimpse into global dining customs. Selective drinkware will accompany this section revealing how tea sets and even punch bowls reflected an owner’s prestige.

Please RSVP for you and your little one (ages 4-10 months) to experience our proven curriculum designed to help build the skills needed as children become more mobile. Everything absorbed at this age lays the groundwork for overall functional development.

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Please note that this is a signing only event. Barbara Kingsolver will be signing copies of Unsheltered purchased at Malaprop’s. She will not be speaking and will not sign copies of her other titles. She will not be personalizing copies.

Purchase Unsheltered in store, by phone, or online at https://www.malaprops.com/book/9780062684561

The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Malaprop’s is thrilled to host Barbara Kingsolver for an Unsheltered signing only event on Thursday, November 29th at 1:00 pm. The opportunity to meet Kingsolver and have your book signed will only be offered to customers who pre-order or purchase a copy of Unsheltered at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, or www.malaprops.com.

While she will try to get to everyone, signing line priority will be given to customers who preorder their copy of Unsheltered and signing line tickets are first come, first served. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for important updates on the day of the signing. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or visit our website to order a signed copy.

Devoted fans can hear Barbara Kingsolver deliver the keynote address at the Literacy Council’s 11th Annual Authors for Literacy Dinner & Silent Auction later in the evening. For tickets and more information about the Literacy Council event, visit www/litcouncil.com.

About Unsheltered:

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family’s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own.

In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, ‘How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it?’ A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town’s powerful men.

Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.

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With a legendary career spanning more than four decades, KANSAS remains one of America’s most iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 and has since gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Composing a catalogue that includes fifteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums, one platinum live album and two one million-selling gold singles, Carry On Wayward Son and Dust in the Wind. Now here’s your chance to experience KANSAS live in concert!

The concert at the US Cellular Center in Asheville, NC is part of an exciting three night getaway at Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort & Spa in Gatlinburg, TN. You’ll also enjoy a welcome party with dinner, open bar, a DJ and prizes, personal concierge service, complimentary transportation to and from the event and even a late checkout on your final day.

Located adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort offers a scenic mountain views and easy access to the nation’s most visited national park. The spacious accommodations feature all the comforts of home, plus a wide variety of exquisite resort amenities ranging from hiking trails and recreational options to an award-winning on-site restaurant, a world class spa and the year-round, Wild Bear Falls indoor water park!

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Sweet, strong and delicious.

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Come start the Christmas season off with us at Glamour and Grace Jewelry, located in Glamour Inc. Salon. We will have light refreshments, sale items, door prizes and lots of new inventory. We are also featuring clothing items from Sunflower Envy Boutique ?! So come celebrate with us on Thursday Nov. 29th 2-8pm!! Merry Christmas!!

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Hello folks! This months Plan & Meet for ASWOP is a big one! We are planning an event for December!

On December 17th, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we are stuffing emergencies bags for sex workers with supplies at Fleetwoods!

This meeting is to discuss supplies needed for the December event, promotion/outreach, things we need volunteers for, and all general logistics. We are particularly looking for hygiene/safety items or cosmetics, so if you/an organization you know has these supplies please come plan with us so we can make a new stockpile of goody bags for sex workers! We hope to see you there!

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Sweet, strong and delicious.

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Support kids in your community! Visit our Downtown location on November 29th between 4pm and 9pm to raise funds for Claxton Elementary School. 10% of dinner proceeds will go to Claxton Elementary to support student access to a variety of cultural enrichment activities! It is really great food for a wonderful cause!

#supportourschools #dineforacause #ashevillefundraising #kidsrule

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Come learn about the history of Henderson County in an informal, fun setting! Meetings will include hands-on activities, speakers, and field trips.Students will have input on what they want to do!
4th-8th graders.
Meets 4th Thursday of the month from 4-5 PM.

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Come jump with your kids, invite your friends, neighbors, and family! Jumping is for all ages. Help HSA raise money that will go towards upgrading security measures at school (i.e. access to campus, changing locks on doors, etc). Launch has agreed to give us 25% of proceeds from paying customers.

*When purchasing your tickets, please mention “Captain Gilmer Christian School”.

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