The River Arts District is a warehouse-turned-art-destination along the French Broad River in Asheville, NC. Since the mid-1990's the district has grown to house over 180 artists in 25 unique studio buildings. Less than a mile from the historic Biltmore Estate and the convenience of I-40, the River Arts District is perfect for a quick afternoon shopping trip, a day of art exploration or a collectors weekend excursion! Just as every artist is different, so are each studio's hours. Many studios are open to the public every day, all year round which ensures you'll always have a great experience in the district no matter when you visit. Other artists are open more selective hours and by appointment. You can find out all the details on who's open when and where each studio is located by downloading our free Studio Guide at http://www.riverartsdistrict.com/studio-guide.html
The Cotton Mill Studios located in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC has Eight Studios filled with work in a variety of mediums.The hours for each Studio are varied,but most artists strive to be open from tuesday through saturday from 11:00am to 4:00pm.To get a better idea of who is open and at what time,please message or call each artist for their hours of operation.
Welcome to the new Riverview Station page. This is a place for the artists and entreprenuers of the building to talk about new work, post photos, share resources, offer support. We can also promote our events and projects here. Spread the word.
Come join us for Second Saturday Shakedown, our monthly celebration of local art!
Visit over 23 working artists at the Wedge Studios Level 2. The yellow painted brick is where you will find all of us. Through the door and up the stairs...!
If you aren't familiar with our style of glasswork let me explain a bit....We use very large torches to melt clear and colored glass ,then we stretch,squash,blow,poke prod,coax and sometimes even yell at the glass to get it to mold into the shape that we're going for. We create a very wide variety of objects from Stemware to Sculpture. As you will see, we are clearly very sporadic! Thanks for taking the time to visit our page! Take the time while you're here to browse our photos for great examples of our work!
The Lift is a historic building (constructed in 1907) in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Asheville. Having hardly been touched since it was built, an extensive renovation was required to up-fit it to be the home base, studio, and gallery of Daniel McClendon. The List Studios also serves as a special event space for anyone desiring an eclectic, artistic, and unique setting for their next party or event. More information to come! All questions can be directed to [email protected]
310 ART features all original contemporary fine art for your home and office. See the work of 24 artists in one location and see artists at work every day in our active studio. We feature Oil Paintings, Acrylic paintings, watercolors, encaustic, cold wax, mixed media, hand crafted jewelry and wearable art by artists in the mountains of North Carolina. There is something for everyone including abstract work, landscapes, experimental work and more. Art Classes for adults in all mediums are offered year round, with an emphasis on modern techniques, and special topics. Our teaching venue is the oldest independent school for adults in the region and our staff includes top professional artists.
Chair Caning Classes and restorations in our new location at 9 Riverside Dr, upstairs at Curve Studios. Bring in your Go Local Card for 10% off chair caning classes and restorations. Go Local Cards available on site for $17. www.SilverRiverChairs.com 828 707 4553
"It has been said that all creativity happens at the edge of chaos and order… For me the chaos just happens to look like tangled, gnarly vines wrapped tightly around strangled trees and laurel, pods and cones littering the forest floor; the order like a beautiful sculptural basket that reminds me of its source. Somewhere in the middle is where the magic happens, where Creativity broods over the chaos and new life begins; beauty is born. A simple walk through forest explodes into a symphony of possibilities; back breaking in giddy glee as I carry the treasures toward their purpose. What once was dead is now alive, that which was hated is now desired, that which had no breath suddenly heaves with hope afresh. The weaving is the easy part; it's seeing beauty while it's still hidden that is the adventure. Even though these woven creations seem to simply form in the hands of their maker, as if to say it is only skill that brings them to life, it must always be remembered that every basket begins with a walk in the woods. It's time to take a walk." Matt Tommey
An experiment. A craftspace. A crucible. revolve is a space meant to serve and to foster innovative thinking about politics and poetry, science and music, food and architecture, word and image. A gallery/performance space as well as a classroom, revolve promotes contemporary, cross-disciplinary collaborations where diverse and thought-provoking writers, teachers, students, and makers can come together to agree, disagree, write, create, make, exhibit and perform. Located in Asheville’s growing River Arts District and situated in two open, large, and welcoming spaces—one on the ground floor and the second above it—revolve is already connected with academic institutions in and around Asheville, including UNCA, Western Carolina University, and Warren Wilson College. As such, revolve can offer a wide range of opportunities for both students and teachers in addition to artists, writers, and performers as well as local restaurateurs, farmers, and engineers. Offering seminars and workshops in stimulating subjects such as From Cyanotypes to Pixels: Photograph as Keepsake, Document, and Object; Dreams and Dream Journaling For Creative Thinking; and Sex in American Cinema, revolve seeks to generate an environment that fosters open and productive dialogue to inspire, to push, and to challenge everyday assumption and idea. revolve seeks to evolve how we humans view the world and transform how we both share and shape that vision. see. think. make.
What if your jewelry was more than jewelry? Do you want more energy, love, or calmness? What if you could choose jewelry that supports more of what you want in your life, what you are going for? In a private consultation or jewelry party, I can guide you to choose the gemstones that support what you are creating in your life and the style that expresses your authenticity. A professional life coach since '03, I combine my coaching skills with my artistic skills to offer a unique and lasting experience of art that affects your everyday life. Jen Aly Designs are infused with healing energy. I love using gemstones that have a variety of healing and energetic properties. Some of my favorites include labradorite, agate, moon stone, fresh water pearls, onyx, peridot, jasper, ruby, citrine, prehnite, jet, howlite, turquoise, jade, shell, quartz, amethyst, aventurine, and more. I hand hammer metal designs and combine beads to add color and vibrancy. I choose materials based on intuition and beauty. All of my designs are divinely inspired. I've cleared the stones and have done Reiki on the jewelry. Each piece has been dedicated to the Light, as inspired in Diane Stein's book, Healing with Gemstones and Crystals. My intention is that you love the jewelry, and feel better than usual when wearing it. "One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art." ~Oscar Wilde LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaly Twitter: https://twitter.com/JenAlyDesigns Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105198049707102412312 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/jenalydesigns/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/jenalydesigns
Nancy Hilliard Joyce was born in Greenville, South Carolina and was accepted into the Governor’s School for the Arts in Visual Art by the age of 16. Since then, Nancy has lived and studied art throughout the United States and abroad including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, England and Italy. From each of these places, she has gathered information and expanded her knowledge and application for the arts. Nancy originally moved to Asheville in 1997 after completing her Masters in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. At that time, she lived in an area along the French Broad River called, “Chicken Hill” in a small one-room house which sits above what is now known as Asheville’s “River Arts District” [RAD]. Nancy worked as an artist out of her house as there was no formal RAD association at that time. In addition to working as a visual artist, Nancy also worked as an Outreach Curator at the Asheville Art Museum. She left Asheville a few years later to live and travel throughout the United States and abroad. Finally, Nancy returned to Asheville again in June of 2011 with her husband and two children. Today she sits on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and is an active member of the River Arts District Association. Nancy’s paintings are intricate in form and filled with layers of color and perspective. Her paintings are most often created with a range of matte acrylic hues, various hand-made papers and finished with touches of oil colors. You can sometimes witness her sand or wipe down layers to reveal under-layers and build up other sections creating texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in one day. Often times, Nancy will incorporate the wheel image throughout her work. From Nancy’s perspective, the cyclical nature of the wheel represents the continuous flow of things in life. Nancy’s influences are garnered mainly from her own desire to create rather than from outside influences. However, she hints at inspirations from the works of Jasper Johns [and his paintings of the American flag], the late period of Mark Rothko’s “multiforms”, the architectural style of Santiago Calatrava and Georgia O’ Keeffe’s macro views of nature. Nancy’s creativity emerges throughout her work in a way in which normal, everyday objects are often painted with extreme and exaggerated perspective. Today, Nancy’s work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the United States and abroad and she is accepted as a postmodernist, gestural expressionist painter with an Americana flair. Current projects include a permanent installation of a 6 x 12 foot triptych painting in Greenville, South Carolina’s newest mixed-use hub building called, ONE. This piece can be seen in the main lobby hanging beneath crimson, modern pendant lamp forms. In the Summer of 2013, Nancy curated an installation for a group of select artists in Western North Carolina. She has four large-scale pieces in the craft ales + kitchen restaurant called, EDISON, which opened July, 2013 at the historic OMNI Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.Nancy originally moved to Asheville in 1997 after completing her Masters in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. At that time, she lived in an area along the French Broad River called, “Chicken Hill” in a small one-room house which sits above what is now known as Asheville’s “River Arts District” [RAD]. Nancy worked as an artist out of her house as there was no formal RAD association at that time. In addition to working as a visual artist, Nancy also worked as an Outreach Curator at the Asheville Art Museum. She left Asheville a few years later to live and travel throughout the United States and abroad. Finally, Nancy returned to Asheville again in June of 2011 with her husband and two children. Today she sits on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and is an active member of the River Arts District Association. Nancy’s paintings are intricate in form and filled with layers of color and perspective. Her paintings are most often created with a range of matte acrylic hues, various hand-made papers and finished with touches of oil colors. You can sometimes witness her sand or wipe down layers to reveal under-layers and build up other sections creating texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in one day. Often times, Nancy will incorporate the wheel image throughout her work. From Nancy’s perspective, the cyclical nature of the wheel represents the continuous flow of things in life. Nancy’s influences are garnered mainly from her own desire to create rather than from outside influences. However, she hints at inspirations from the works of Jasper Johns [and his paintings of the American flag], the late period of Mark Rothko’s “multiforms”, the architectural style of Santiago Calatrava and Georgia O’ Keeffe’s macro views of nature. Nancy’s creativity emerges throughout her work in a way in which normal, everyday objects are often painted with extreme and exaggerated perspective. Today, Nancy’s work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the United States and abroad and she is accepted as a postmodernist, gestural expressionist painter with an Americana flair. Current projects include a permanent installation of a 6 x 12 foot triptych painting in Greenville, South Carolina’s newest mixed-use hub building called, ONE. This piece can be seen in the main lobby hanging beneath crimson, modern pendant lamp forms. In the Summer of 2013, Nancy curated an installation for a group of select artists in Western North Carolina. She has four large-scale pieces in the craft ales + kitchen restaurant called, EDISON, which opened July, 2013 at the historic OMNI Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.
Daily & Monthly studio rental space/tools/equipment/private benches available On-going Classes, Workshops & One on One Consultations Art Jewelry & Sculpture gallery for all your viewing & purchasing needs is on site! Demos throughout the weekend!
If you love handmade furniture, be sure to visit our website, or come in person to our gallery and working studio, where master Brian Boggs and team build some of America's finest from carefully selected timbers.
A relaxing beverage dispensary, patterned after the nakamals, or "peaceful meeting places" of Vanuatu, Noble Kava (once Vanuatu Kava Bar) is Asheville's place to unwind from the grind. Mood-elevating indigenous herbal drinks are served everyday to help patrons cope with the fast-paced modern Western lifestyle. We invite you to come and immerse yourself in the state-of-mind that is Noble Kava. Be sure to visit us for one of our weekly events: Monday - Ladies' night. Ladies drink $1 shots of kava from the end of happy hour until closing. Wednesday - Open Mic hosted by Caleb Beissert. Poets, musicians, artists, comedians and performers are all welcome to perform original material. All participating performers get a 2 for 1 round! Friday - Live music. Scheduled performers include Serifa Arkestra, Space Medicine, and other local minds whose mellow tunes help elevate the atmosphere to a place where self-actualization is made possible.
Voice of the City Productions was founded in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2014. Our first production, Into the Woods Jr, goes up in January of 2015. To join our mailing list for updates on Auditions, our Education Programs, Employment, and Upcoming Show Dates, please visit our website http://www.voiceofthecityproductions.com/.
Daily & Monthly studio rental space/tools/equipment/private benches available On-going Classes, Workshops & One on One Consultations Art Jewelry & Sculpture gallery for all your viewing & purchasing needs is on site! Demos throughout the weekend!
Welcome to the new Riverview Station page. This is a place for the artists and entreprenuers of the building to talk about new work, post photos, share resources, offer support. We can also promote our events and projects here. Spread the word.
25 years combined experience. Positive, upbeat atmosphere. Friendly, clean and lighthanded staff. We can take care of any of your needs, from; Custom, cover ups, fine line, old school, traditional, novelties etc...
What's Next Concepts a.k.a. What's Next‽… is a creative, high-energy, strategic marketing PR & management consulting firm designed to contribute & distribute positive motivation in this fast paced world through community involvement & by supporting the arts & live music scene. With 15 years of event production & promotion in our background we specialize in booking, publicity, marketing & management. This agency dedicates ourselves to your campaign’s needs such as: print media & design - guerilla marketing - virtual personal assistants - event sponsorships - street-team management - event staffing - online media coverage - equipment rental - emcee hosting - artist liaison - unique promotional distribution solutions - as well as personalized event & band management packages. Our teams are trained to take your campaign to the public & put it directly into the hands (or inbox) of your targeted audience & potential fans using unique traceable discount codes, sample products, Mp3 download cards & of course event fliers & posters. Giving true fans & music enthusiast things they want: to know What’s Next‽ with underground - local - organic & home grown art & live music all with a way to earn free tickets, music, personalized gear as well as opportunities to get involved in this exciting industry just for spreading the word & showing support to the local arts & music scene!! Main Fan Pages - Regional News & Events What's Next‽ www.facebook.com/WhatsNextConcept The BIG What? www.facebook.com/TheBigWhat Local Fan Pages with Friend Accounts & Corresponding Groups What's Next? Southwest VA
Ceramic Art & Pottery! Paintings - acrylic, oil, Sumi-e, watercolor! Cosmic cards! Chair caners! Photography! Jewelry! Video production! Around each corner, there is a new surprise and artists working. We welcome you to our special spot in the River Arts District!
An experiment. A craftspace. A crucible. revolve is a space meant to serve and to foster innovative thinking about politics and poetry, science and music, food and architecture, word and image. A gallery/performance space as well as a classroom, revolve promotes contemporary, cross-disciplinary collaborations where diverse and thought-provoking writers, teachers, students, and makers can come together to agree, disagree, write, create, make, exhibit and perform. Located in Asheville’s growing River Arts District and situated in two open, large, and welcoming spaces—one on the ground floor and the second above it—revolve is already connected with academic institutions in and around Asheville, including UNCA, Western Carolina University, and Warren Wilson College. As such, revolve can offer a wide range of opportunities for both students and teachers in addition to artists, writers, and performers as well as local restaurateurs, farmers, and engineers. Offering seminars and workshops in stimulating subjects such as From Cyanotypes to Pixels: Photograph as Keepsake, Document, and Object; Dreams and Dream Journaling For Creative Thinking; and Sex in American Cinema, revolve seeks to generate an environment that fosters open and productive dialogue to inspire, to push, and to challenge everyday assumption and idea. revolve seeks to evolve how we humans view the world and transform how we both share and shape that vision. see. think. make.
The Cotton Mill Studios located in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC has Eight Studios filled with work in a variety of mediums.The hours for each Studio are varied,but most artists strive to be open from tuesday through saturday from 11:00am to 4:00pm.To get a better idea of who is open and at what time,please message or call each artist for their hours of operation.
if you are a biz in the ARAD, please feel free to post announcements, events, conversations, issues, photos of work, etc here... this is a lively forum... use it!
Desert Moon Designs Studios & Gallery is a progressive contemporary gallery that includes working studios. The focus of the gallery is to showcase both emerging/established local and visiting regional artists. Several times a year special exhibitions are scheduled to introduce new talent or to bring focus to a certain art medium.
Nancy Hilliard Joyce was born in Greenville, South Carolina and was accepted into the Governor’s School for the Arts in Visual Art by the age of 16. Since then, Nancy has lived and studied art throughout the United States and abroad including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, England and Italy. From each of these places, she has gathered information and expanded her knowledge and application for the arts. Nancy originally moved to Asheville in 1997 after completing her Masters in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. At that time, she lived in an area along the French Broad River called, “Chicken Hill” in a small one-room house which sits above what is now known as Asheville’s “River Arts District” [RAD]. Nancy worked as an artist out of her house as there was no formal RAD association at that time. In addition to working as a visual artist, Nancy also worked as an Outreach Curator at the Asheville Art Museum. She left Asheville a few years later to live and travel throughout the United States and abroad. Finally, Nancy returned to Asheville again in June of 2011 with her husband and two children. Today she sits on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and is an active member of the River Arts District Association. Nancy’s paintings are intricate in form and filled with layers of color and perspective. Her paintings are most often created with a range of matte acrylic hues, various hand-made papers and finished with touches of oil colors. You can sometimes witness her sand or wipe down layers to reveal under-layers and build up other sections creating texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in one day. Often times, Nancy will incorporate the wheel image throughout her work. From Nancy’s perspective, the cyclical nature of the wheel represents the continuous flow of things in life. Nancy’s influences are garnered mainly from her own desire to create rather than from outside influences. However, she hints at inspirations from the works of Jasper Johns [and his paintings of the American flag], the late period of Mark Rothko’s “multiforms”, the architectural style of Santiago Calatrava and Georgia O’ Keeffe’s macro views of nature. Nancy’s creativity emerges throughout her work in a way in which normal, everyday objects are often painted with extreme and exaggerated perspective. Today, Nancy’s work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the United States and abroad and she is accepted as a postmodernist, gestural expressionist painter with an Americana flair. Current projects include a permanent installation of a 6 x 12 foot triptych painting in Greenville, South Carolina’s newest mixed-use hub building called, ONE. This piece can be seen in the main lobby hanging beneath crimson, modern pendant lamp forms. In the Summer of 2013, Nancy curated an installation for a group of select artists in Western North Carolina. She has four large-scale pieces in the craft ales + kitchen restaurant called, EDISON, which opened July, 2013 at the historic OMNI Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.Nancy originally moved to Asheville in 1997 after completing her Masters in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. At that time, she lived in an area along the French Broad River called, “Chicken Hill” in a small one-room house which sits above what is now known as Asheville’s “River Arts District” [RAD]. Nancy worked as an artist out of her house as there was no formal RAD association at that time. In addition to working as a visual artist, Nancy also worked as an Outreach Curator at the Asheville Art Museum. She left Asheville a few years later to live and travel throughout the United States and abroad. Finally, Nancy returned to Asheville again in June of 2011 with her husband and two children. Today she sits on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and is an active member of the River Arts District Association. Nancy’s paintings are intricate in form and filled with layers of color and perspective. Her paintings are most often created with a range of matte acrylic hues, various hand-made papers and finished with touches of oil colors. You can sometimes witness her sand or wipe down layers to reveal under-layers and build up other sections creating texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in one day. Often times, Nancy will incorporate the wheel image throughout her work. From Nancy’s perspective, the cyclical nature of the wheel represents the continuous flow of things in life. Nancy’s influences are garnered mainly from her own desire to create rather than from outside influences. However, she hints at inspirations from the works of Jasper Johns [and his paintings of the American flag], the late period of Mark Rothko’s “multiforms”, the architectural style of Santiago Calatrava and Georgia O’ Keeffe’s macro views of nature. Nancy’s creativity emerges throughout her work in a way in which normal, everyday objects are often painted with extreme and exaggerated perspective. Today, Nancy’s work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the United States and abroad and she is accepted as a postmodernist, gestural expressionist painter with an Americana flair. Current projects include a permanent installation of a 6 x 12 foot triptych painting in Greenville, South Carolina’s newest mixed-use hub building called, ONE. This piece can be seen in the main lobby hanging beneath crimson, modern pendant lamp forms. In the Summer of 2013, Nancy curated an installation for a group of select artists in Western North Carolina. She has four large-scale pieces in the craft ales + kitchen restaurant called, EDISON, which opened July, 2013 at the historic OMNI Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.