We will once again be providing access to some of the finest artists in the region with it’s market series now in its second decade. The event takes place on three Saturdays each June and October. Nationally known artists exhibit at this event and the best part is- they are local. Muddy Knees Design and Production proudly offers local artists the opportunity to connect with the public in Asheville‘s Pack Square Park.

You are invited to come out to Asheville Art in the Park, take a stroll around downtown Asheville and experience the textures and forms of a truly unique art garden.

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This year marks the 17th Annual Art in Bloom, our most anticipated fundraiser of the year. This multifaceted event, celebrating nature and art, combines two gallery exhibits, live floral arrangements, and a local garden tour featuring working artists. Whether you join us for one event or all of them, you are playing an important role in supporting the arts in our community.

May 26th - July 14th, 2023

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Connect with local makers! Join us on Saturday, June 10, from 12-5pm for our Open Studio Art Tour. During this event, participating resident artists at Grovewood Village will open up their studios to the public, allowing visitors to gain insight into their creative process and view their most recent works.

Tours are FREE and self-guided.

Be sure to visit The Inn for a visit rich with history, gorgeous views, a world class spa, golf, and the best place to cheers to the sunset!

The 75th Anniversary Celebration
SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • DINNER & LIVE AUCTION

The Museum’s Gala is our biggest event of the year. You’re invited to join us for 2023’s dazzling evening—a diamond jubilee celebration. Featuring a cocktail reception, sit-down dinner, and live auction, this event brings together some of the Museum’s most dedicated supporters and celebrates all the Museum has to offer—from world-class exhibitions to engaging programs for children, teens, and adults.

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Jo Ridge Kelley is a plein air and studio oil painter and lives and works in Waynesville and Asheville, North Carolina. Her studio-gallery, is open to the public by chance and appointment Monday-Saturday, 136 North Main St., downtown Waynesville, NC.

Her work is continually influenced by her traditional background and the "plein air" experience, setting up her easel and capturing the immediate mood or drama of the moment. Many of the classical masters, as well as contemporary master plein air painters, have had a strong impact on her work. Jo's curiosity, sincere appreciation of the natural world and desire to experiment with strong composition and design, have led her on an exciting journey with huge canvases and large brushes.

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Drawn by a passion for nature, gardens and helping those in need! This new project involved many aspects involving overseeing/working in the garden, design updates to Master Plan, marketing via Instagram/St. Eugene’s Church website, ongoing fundraising, establishing a relationship with local nurseries, farms, church community, and the Buncombe County Master Gardeners Extensions Program — all while growing food for the local Catholic Ministries WNC Food Pantries.

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You heard it HERE! RD has always offered a variety of consulting services when it comes to digital, print, social media, and any type of advertising placement needs.

AVL Media is a local group that has been circulating 3 upscale publications throughout the WNC region for over 10 years. This includes Buncombe, Henderson & Transylvania counties. With over 31,000 targeted readers per month, highlight the following:
Sophisticated home buyers looking for luxury homes, products, services, independent Baby Boomers with an active lifestyle and leading women who are professionals, mothers, & decision-makers driven by the best-of-the-best!

Take a quick look BELOW at their current issues:

Fine Homes & Design

50+ Living of Western, NC

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CALL FOR 20 new ARTISTS!!! DEADLINE 7/28/21 @ midnight

In a celebration of ephemeral beauty, The Gallery at Flat Rock is pairing twenty professional floral designers with an equal number of artists to present imaginative interpretations of juried works of art for its sixth annual Art in Bloom exhibit, September 3-5, 2021. 3-dimensional preferred!

A Preview Reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, September 3rd will launch Art in Bloom. More details on that soon!

After 28 years in Los Angeles, Melinda moved to the mountains of North Carolina 10 years ago, where she opened Sweet Magnolia Gallery, the flagship store/studio of Melinda Lawton Jewelry in Hendersonville. Her jewelry is also featured in the curated collections of the Grand Bohemian Galleries in Asheville,NC, Charleston,SC, St.Augustine, FL, Birmingham, AL, and two in Savannah, GA, as well as other galleries.

Melinda’s amazing back-story includes spending 30 years as a designer for film/TV, received 2 Emmy nominations, had her jewelers worn by American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, and has collectors all over the world!

Her jewelry is timeless with strong roots in antique style. Using bold color combinations, and the finest gems, the creation of these treasures is truly her life’s passion. As one customer just wrote her “Your jewelry is what I wear when I want to feel my bravest.”

“This”, says Melinda, “Is why I am so excited about making jewelry!” Empowering women… one at a time!

From Paris and Parsons graduate, Alison designs stainless steel fountains, water features, mobiles, sculptures, obelisks, pergolas and even acrylic rowing boats.
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1767 is a woodworking company dedicated to honoring Nashville’s historic architecture by reimagining wood reclaimed from its historic homes.
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A mural and hand-painting Asheville company with 30 years of design and customized service.
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Megan’s, an Asheville native, current work focuses on systematic, ornate, and repetitive circular shapes that emphasize color and combine varying patterns. Her studio is located at 474 Haywood Gallery and Studios.

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Kathryn has been working back and forth from large scale to studio work; from aerosol being my primary medium, to acrylics and oils, creating either large scale murals on walls, or studio paintings on canvas or animal skulls.
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There is a richness in the combination of her layers of paint - all working together to form a textured story. A play on space and depth, structure and fluidity.
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Often reminiscent of imaginary landscapes, her watercolor paintings evolve through layers of washes, with an emphasis on the mark making which is closely tied to calligraphy, language and symbolic communication.
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Bad ASS muralist sharing his creative work anywhere and everywhere. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.
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Joint hanging & painting sessions scheduled for 7/15 & 7/29

Latest ongoing RD project

Beautiful ceramics from one of our own local artists here in Asheville, NC, in the heart of the River Arts District.

Blue Spiral 1 has proudly represented the estate of Will Henry Stevens pioneer of a Southern Modernism for many years. Proficient in oil, tempera, watercolor, and hand-crafted pastel, his quiet intelligence, keen vision, modernist disposition, and technical mastery are seen throughout the body of work. He easily translated the geometry he found in nature into non-objective abstraction as well.
My inspiration, then and now - making who I am as an artist today.

Explore 25 downtown galleries, studios and museums — all located within a half mile radius. EVERY MONTH - APRIL through DECEMBER from 5 - 8 pm.

Another great reason to visit the Carolina's during the month of October!

An expert in oil paint and resin. Gurton's paintings are a highly expressive representation of nature's beauty in its primary elements.
Exquisite.

Exhibition: February 14th through May 12th, 2013.

Interesting read.

Acrylic and wax painter. The spirit and tranquility of the mountains continues to inspire and infuse her works. I even have a few of her works in my daughter's nursery~

Exceptional encaustic painter & sculptor here in Asheville, NC.

Scott Upton’s abstract paintings are filled with color and texture. His distinctive compositions reflect strong geometric shapes with a subtle suggestion of a landscape. The canvases glow with multi-layers of acrylic paint and concealed reflective textures using silver and gold leaf, all sealed under a varnish of his own devising.

A simple, honest, and transparent - yet very unique painter. Daniel taps into the instinctual nature of the creative process, using the animals as a catalyst, and work to maintain an open-ended, energetic, yet purposeful aesthetic.

A "collector of small powerful things" in her mixed media art which often incorporates found organic elements into illuminated shrine-like forms, resin paintings, and in her line of resin jewelry. Scenes are populated by birds, bears, foxes and other creatures in dreamlike settings, and real embedded objects such as grass, eggs, bones, and plants. They are inspired by the beauty and mystery of the natural world and are infused with tension, rest, beauty, and longing.

Another angle on Impressionists and how they recorded fashions of the past through paintings.

Our community of talented individuals right here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC.
Mark your calendars for the second weekend in June for our bi-annual Studio Stroll. Well worth the trip!

A great source for artists looking for a user-friendly & inexpensive way to showcase their art.

Prominent gallery here in Asheville, NC, displaying some incredibly pieces.

Fine art, a colorist of the Carolina's.

Owner Hector Diaz turned the walls at the downtown restaurant Chorizo over to four muralists.

Vivid abstractions on Etsy.com