#art in asheville

[th3-0bjectivist]

(Steet) Art in Asheville, NC 01OCT23

I’ve been in North Carolina for nearly a year.

I've asked people repeatedly where it’s prettiest around here.

Nearly everyone told me Asheville, NC so I went to check it out.

I was able to walk through downtown in twenty-five minutes.

Small city, but lots of character.

I wish I could share the drinks and food I had with you (amazing).

Instead, I opted to share some pics of the local street art.

There’s a decent artist presence in the area, and it showed.

Been trying to find where to connect to nature AND art in NC.

Found it! Meanwhile... I’m on vacation.

[sweatermuppet]

🌟🩷 reminder that my stickers are available for in person purchase at EMOTE in Asheville, North Carolina, USA 🌟🩷

[jacobvanloon]

Landscape paintings by Chris Jehly

[nikkiaart]

I was commissioned to make some more regional variant Mikus xD we have: Asheville Miku, Boone Miku and Ohio Miku! If you want me to draw a regional variant of your favorite character, DM me! My commissions are open

[thanatopsiss]

"Don't you realize, our bodies could fall apart at any second?"

36'' x 24''

36 photographs taken from the day I began staying in WNC, until the day Hurricane Helene hit. Featuring "Bodys" by CSH because that song is a good representative of my own uncertainty and not taking my community for granted and all that good stuff 2 me. Also because I listened to Twin Fantasy on repeat the day I evacuated and now they're associated

[oldnorthcarolina]

West Asheville, North Carolina

[moonshynecybin]

in his overalls + the naked woman shirt he shares with celestino under them + holding hands with his pitbull at the dinner table. okay.

[randanopterix]

Hello! I’m opening up chibi/sketch requests for charitable donations to the people of North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. If you DM me a screenshot of a receipt of a charitable donation, I will happily draw your favorite character or professional wrestler.

I have seen the terrible devastation that hurricanes can cause first hand and was very nearly hit directly by Hurricane Helene myself. Please help me help the people of North Carolina.

I’ve linked below four charities that I have reviewed and judged to be legitimate as suggestions. That being said if the way you are able to donate is through material donations (food/supply drives, etc) or your own free time (volunteering) I will also accept these with some kind of proof of your effort.

Please DM if you have any questions.

Action Network

Homeward Bound North Carolina

Hearts with Hands

United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County

[akadoodles]

“Governor’s Hall”

Digital Painting, Made in Procreate

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[ralfmaximus]

"This was kind of astonishing and rather wonderful: someone working in Asheville to try and help with cleanup post-Helene and salvage any art they find at Riverview Station wrote to me that she found my tiger print and dried it in the sun! It had been at Asheville Print Studio + Gallery which was completely flooded. The damage at this green print studio and gallery and community hub was really devastating and it’s amazing to me that a print on paper could survive."

Found on mastodon.

[leftoverlondoner]

‘La Guadalupana Mexicana’ (2023-24) by Chicago-based artist ‘Pizza In The Rain’. On show at the Asheville Art Museum, NC.

[sweatermuppet]

🩷 more stickers in stock at EMOTE in Asheville, North Carolina, USA 🩷

EMOTE on instagram / buy stickers online

[thepaintedchateau]

...Autumn...that melancholy season that suits memories so well...

[skeletonblogger]

[asheville music tools] acv-1 | adg-1 | afg-1

[etraytin]

The Bitter Beauty

I bought an art print last night. I have never bought an art print before, or at least not for years and certainly not one that I planned to frame and put on my actual wall. It's from a photographer whose gallery was in the River Arts District, so of course all of his finished framed prints are lost and gone with a thousand other works of art the river took from us. About ten days after the storm, I guess, we had the rare opportunity to see the Northern Lights from our latitude. It was a strange and beautiful show, barely visible for most of us except through the lenses of our camera phones. This artist, a guy named Tim Reaves, went down into the ruins of Riverview Station and took pictures with the Northern Lights as a backdrop. Here's the one I bought:

I don't live in Asheville proper and I am a deeply uncool person in general, so I'd never really been to most of the River Arts District before I started canvassing. I got the opportunity to visit Riverview Station several times while I was working, both to try and canvass there (not a hopping spot on Tuesday afternoon, unfortunately) or to have my lunch break. Just a month ago, I sat across from this Summit Coffee Company at a picnic table and wished I had an extra fifteen minutes of break so I could go in and grab a drink. Next time, I promised myself.

In a way, the storm froze many of us into a moment in time. I think anyone who remembers the start of COVID can sympathize. There was September 24, when everything was normal except that it was starting to rain. We knew weather was coming, but it wasn't coming for us. There was September 25 and 26, when it rained and rained, sullen and soggy and so normal except for the warnings that kept getting more ominous. Catastrophic Flooding. Unprecedented. High Winds. Evacuation warnings. We hunkered down, we checked our flashlights, we watched the weather forecasts. Then it was September 27. The power went, then the internet, then the water, and nothing was the same again. A part of me still didn't understand until I saw this picture that I will not be going back to Riverview Station, at least not the one that I knew.

That link I put up there is to Tim Reaves' online gallery, and I recommend taking a look at it. Every picture in the collection is beautiful and each one broke my heart in a different way. They are an elegy to a place that was alive and now is not, but at the same time they feel like the opening notes to a song that could start again. The buildings are gone, the art is gone, but the artists are still here. The people are still here. I am still here. And I will put this picture on my wall, and someday, maybe, hopefully, I will go and have a coffee there.

[emiwrites3reads]

River arts district, Asheville. After Helene