Art & Artists

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Scenes and Songs

The Asheville Symphony Orchestra and Asheville Art Museum marry their artistic mediums for a performance of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.
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Art on the Concourse

In Charlotte, nondescript airport walls become a first-class exhibit.
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Southern Recollections

An exhibit highlighting ritual and rhythm in the work of a Harlem Renaissance child comes home to Charlotte.
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Waterside Weaver

Beth Burns rarely leaves Roanoke Island, but if she does, she wraps herself in one of her scarves — a constant reminder of the place she calls home.
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Artistic Impression

Asheville resident Wendy Whitson took up art because of her uncle. Although life pulled her away, she now realizes art’s potential to comfort, heal, and revive.
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Open Studio

The Inner Banks Artisans’ Center in Washington provides a place for those who practice art and for those who purchase it.
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Happiness, Handmade

They’re just stitches and paint strokes. But done over and over, the movements that make the crafts at Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro have helped heal the people who make the community.
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Steady Hands

Tina Gregory practices scherenschnitte — an art form of extreme patience. With every snip, she trims away the excess, and beauty emerges from the remnants.
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Bob Timberlake’s Lexington Landscape

In the 1980s, world-renowned artist and hometown boy Bob Timberlake took a piece of land just down the road from where he grew up and turned it into his personal space, with a studio, a log cabin, a barn, and acres of Davidson County backdrop.
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Open to Art

In 70 years of collecting modern art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro has become nationally known for selecting works of enduring value.
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