A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art features over 50 works of art in a variety of media by 30+ Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation artists. The exhibition highlights the use of the written Cherokee language, a syllabary developed by Cherokee innovator Sequoyah (circa 1776–1843). Cherokee syllabary is frequently found in […]

Ruminations on Memory

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

Artworks are vessels for processing, recalling, and reflecting on the past. Artists often draw upon materials from their own pasts and grasp at fleeting moments in time in the creation of an object. For the viewer, observation of an artwork can draw out personal memories. Featuring a rare presentation of all nine prints from Robert […]

Stained with Glass: Vitreograph Prints from the Studio of Harvey K. Littleton

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

In 1974 Harvey K. Littleton developed a process for using glass to create prints on paper. Littleton, who began as a ceramicist and became a leading figure in the American Studio Glass Movement, expanded his curiosity around the experimental potential of glass into innovations in the world of printmaking. A wide circle of artists in […]

A Hand in Studio Craft: Harvey K. Littleton as Peer and Pioneer

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

Harvey K. Littleton (Corning, NY 1922–2013 Spruce Pine, NC) founded the Studio Glass Movement in the United States in 1962 when, as a teacher, he instituted a glass art program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the first of its kind in the US. He taught the next generation of glass artists—who taught the […]

The Wyeths: Three Generations | Works from the Bank of America Collection

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

The Wyeths: Three Generations | Works from the Bank of America Collection provides a comprehensive survey of works by N. C. Wyeth, one of America’s finest illustrators; his son, Andrew, an important realist painter; his eldest daughter, Henriette, a realist painter; and Andrew’s son Jamie, a popular portraitist. Through the works of these artists from three generations of […]