The Arts: Performing Arts/Film/Writing/Crafts
 
Rosebud Video
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Rosebud Video
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Black Mountain – March 14, 2008 Sculptor Julia C. Burr took one of the top prizes at Sculpturama 2008 held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon, NC and sponsored by Tryon Sculptors and Painters, Inc. more...
Rosebud Video
Click more for a list of videos released in Febuary 2008. more...
Rosebud Video
Click more for a list of videos released in January 2008. more...
 Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama
Sheville Staff
University of Illinois Press has just published Lisa M. Anderson's Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. Currently only available in hardcover, this work covers plays by Pearl Cleage, Glenda Dickerson, Breena Clarke, Kia Corthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sharon Bridgforth, and Shirlene Holmes.
 Plant the Arts: Grow North Carolina
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- Create vibrant North Carolina communities
- Make money for North Carolina
- Inspire North Carolina children to excel
- Communicate across cultures in North Carolina
- Express North Carolina's identity and heritage
- The Arts experience changes lives
Click here for more information about this campaign for the Arts!
 Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
Joyce Metayer
When asked, “What’s your passion in life?” Joyce Metayer says, without a moment’s hesitation, “Making art and being in nature.” Joyce is an artist who is best known for her Sculptural Archetypes…wall reliefs that are a combination of painting and sculpture, impeccably constructed by sewing, and often circular in format. The look of her work is very contemporary even though she claims it is based on Paleolithic feminine symbology. more...
Sheville Staff
Visual Arts and Crafts/Galleries - a sampling of the many diverse artistic styles
and media that Asheville and Western North Carolina have to offer. Please contact us at
info@sheville.org if you would like to
be added to this list or to have your website url included by advertising with
Sheville.
**Visitors, please call ahead to check hours of operation** more...
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Hunter Library, Special Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC
Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present is a collaborative Heritage Partners grant funded by the Library Services and Technology Act. more...
Annelinde Metzner
Can we live with all her power?
The wide, curved hips, knees to the ground, more...
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Tens of thousands of people are moving to the Asheville area as part of an exodus of Christians to the Mountains. The leaders of the Religious world are meeting in Asheville to celebrate the life of Billy Graham. The New Conscience Spiritual leaders from around the world are also meeting in Asheville for their International Gathering. Jeremiah Wright, a right-wing extremist, is plotting to detonate bombs and chemical weapons to destroy the world religions, and Asheville. Our drag-queen hero, SUPER QUEEN, and his SPIRIT RIDER followers, must save them all. more...
 Handmade in America
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from Handmade in America...
Every region and community has its unique gifts and challenges. In Western North Carolina, one of those gifts is our extraordinary, rich heritage of handcraft.
Our Mission is to celebrate the hand and the handmade, to nurture the creation of traditional and contemporary craft, to revere and protect our resources, and to preserve and enrich the spiritual, cultural and community life of our region.
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Womansong is a community chorus that provides a place for women's emotional, creative, spiritual nourishment through healing and support. It celebrates the unity, diversity, and empowerment of women through musical expression, serving the community and promoting social change.
Check out our newest CD at www.womansong.org
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Julie C. Burr Wins Top Sculpturama Award
Bambara Mother Figure: Know This!