Asheville Art Museum

10/26/2026

10/24/2026

Needle Felting - Easy to learn, impressive to show off, incredibly soothing to create! This three hour workshop is designed for beginners to wool craft, but all experience levels are welcome. November 7, 1–4pm, $75
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE and open to anyone! Apply here: https://www.ashevilleart.org/adult-scholarship-application-form/
Register online: https://www.ashevilleart.org/event/adult-studio-needle-felting/

10/21/2026

Explore the Asheville Art Museum's Online Collection Database and discover thousands of artworks by American artists, like "Mountain Dream Tarot" by Bea Nettles. ⁣
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Created during her time at Penland School of Craft, Nettles captured images of her community, friends, and family—including other Collection artists like Bill Brown and Mark & Jane Peiser—transforming 78 photographs into a deck of hand-colored tarot cards.⁣
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Search now at collection.ashevilleart.org.⁣
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Bea Nettles, “IV of Cups,” “King of Swords,” “High Priestess (2) of Upper Arcana,” “Queen of Swords,” “Queen of Pentacles,” from “Mountain Dream Tarot,” 1975, off-set hand-colored photographic print on fiber paper machine-stitched between two layers of frosted mylar, sheet: 4 ½ × 3 ¾ inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nat C. Myers Photography Fund, Asheville Art Museum. © Bea Nettles.

10/17/2026

Over 1,500 images of American art have joined Artstor on JSTOR, thanks to a new contribution from the Asheville Art Museum.

Spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, the collection highlights the creativity and influence of artists connected to Western North Carolina, including Black Mountain College alumni Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg. It also features works by pioneering glass artist Mark Peiser and contemporary artist Wendy Red Star.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4yY4Ke0

Image: Ruth Asawa. Double Sheet Stamp. 1948. Asheville Art Museum, Black Mountain College Collection.

10/16/2026

10/13/2026

Join us as we welcome independent documentary filmmakers to Asheville each month through Sunday screenings and conversations that will spark connection, curiosity, and dialogue.

Tickets on sale now.

Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts, a regional arts organization, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

10/13/2026

Autumn in Asheville is best experienced from above...

Discover the Perspective Café's curated fall menu—featuring fresh seasonal favorites like the Fig & Brie Panini and Beet Salad, paired with special autumn cocktails like the Apricot Bourbon Smash and Cranberry Ginger French 75. Plan your fall visit today!

10/06/2026

Papermaking - This workshop will give you hands-on experience working with several pulps to learn the basics of western style mould and deckle papermaking.
October 25, 10am - 5pm (break for lunch), $125
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE and open to anyone! Apply here: https://www.ashevilleart.org/adult-scholarship-application-form/
Register online: https://www.ashevilleart.org/event/adult-studio-introduction-to-papermaking/

10/04/2026

This Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm—
join us for an evening with New York-based artist Lesley Dill, whose artwork is featured in the current exhibition, "The Art of Paper," and in the Asheville Art Museum Collection.

Dill will talk about her projects that involve paper and collaboration, from huge community and large-scale installations to the intimate creation of artist books and sculptures, as well as her work with artists, poets, students, and printmaking studios, such as Tamarind and Dieu Donne.

Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in sculpture, printmaking, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Her artworks are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Asheville Art Museum. In 2017 she was named a fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

“Paper is about fingertip energy for me. The way one moves in to touch paper is like no other approach. It’s as if each finger has a little imaginary rocketship in it. We touch nothing else the way we touch paper. Paper is the medium of intimacy. The end result is wonder. All printmaking begins with the choice of what paper and in this way, it is about a relationship to fragility and force. This relationship comes from Poetry.” —Lesley Dill.

Lesley Dill, "Unraveled Light (Yellow)," 2001, lithograph with collage and string on paper, 40 ¼ × 28 ¾ inches. Gift of Ray Griffin and Thom Robinson, Asheville Art Museum.