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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250806T110000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: The Shape of Color - Understanding Color Theory in BRAHM's Collection
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Anne Wall Thomas\, The Way to There\, 2015\, mixed-media on paper\, 26 inches wide x 30 inches high (framed)\, Gift of Mary Wall Garren in honor of Anne Wall Thomas\, BRAHM Permanent Collection 2024.006.001 \nMarch 15 – December 27\, 2025 | Cannon Gallery \nColor is fundamental to human perception\, yet its nature has fascinated and perplexed philosophers\, artists\, and scientists for centuries. Through observation\, experimentation\, and artistic practice\, they have developed theories to define and manipulate color as both a science and a sensation. From Antiquity through the 20th century\, these evolving ideas have shaped how we see and use color in art and design. \nThis exhibition explores key milestones in the history of color theory through seven case studies\, each centered on a single work of art from BRAHM’s Permanent Collection. Alongside these works\, diagrams and historical models illustrate how color has been classified\, studied\, and understood over time. By examining these varied approaches\, The Shape of Color invites us to consider the ways in which color influences our perception\, emotions\, and the visual world around us. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/exhibition-the-shape-of-color/
LOCATION:Blowing Rock Art & History Museum\, 159 Ginny Stevens Lane\, Blowing Rock\, NC\, 28605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Educational,Fall,History and Heritage,MAIN CALENDAR,Summer,Winter
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Mary Lou Higgins - Sibylline Faces
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: MaryLou Higgins\, Remembering\, 1993\, Gesso on canvas\, BRAHM Permanent Collection 2024.007.015\, Photographed by Joshua White \nJune 7 – November 15\, 2025 | Schaefer Gallery \nThis exhibiton presents a selection of ceramic works and drawings by MaryLou Higgins (1926–2012)\, an artist active in North Carolina throughout her prolific career. Best known for her illustrative approach to ceramics\, Higgins worked across multiple media\, creating a body of work defined by intricate draftsmanship and a focus on the female figure. \nA voracious illustrator\, Higgins filled the surfaces of her vessels and forms with an evolving repertory of female faces and figures\, rendered with baroque embellishment and a distinct physicality. Often gilded and highly ornamented\, these works foreground the female visage\, as do the elongated or voluptuous silhouettes of the forms themselves. Her drawing practice extended beyond ceramics into works on paper\, canvas\, and handmade furniture\, where her dense\, gestural approach to line and composition further reveals her interest in stylized figuration. \nHiggins often collaborated with her husband\, Edward Higgins\, who at times constructed the ceramic forms she adorned. The figures that populate her work have been compared to the Sibyls—prophetesses of ancient Greece who were believed to articulate divine revelations in rhythmic verse while in a trance. The exaggerated features and expressive gestures of her figures also recall the stylized bodies of late 16th-century Italian\, or Mannerist\, painting\, suggesting an engagement with historical representations of the feminine form. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/exhibition-mary-lou-higgins-sibylline-faces/
LOCATION:Blowing Rock Art & History Museum\, 159 Ginny Stevens Lane\, Blowing Rock\, NC\, 28605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Educational,Fall,History and Heritage,MAIN CALENDAR,Summer
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Arlee Mains - A Life in Watauga
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Arlee Mains\, Wash Day\, 1997\, acrylic on canvas board. Promised Gift\, Collection of Martha & Terry Satterwhite. \nJune 28 – November 29\, 2025 | Rankin East Gallery \nThis intimate installation of ten “memory paintings” by Arlee Mains (1935–2019) offers a vivid and affectionate portrait of early 20th-century life in the mountains of western North Carolina. A lifelong resident of Watauga County and a self-taught artist\, Mains drew upon family stories\, personal recollections\, and regional traditions to create painted scenes of everyday Appalachian life. Her works portray the rhythms of domestic labor\, childhood mischief\, seasonal rituals\, and communal joy—milking cows at dawn\, dancing on a Saturday night\, or greeting the mailman after a deep snow. Each painting is paired with a handwritten narrative by the artist\, capturing her distinctive voice and grounding these images in lived experience. These stories have been transcribed and recorded by a local community member\, and are available to hear at a listening station in the center of the gallery. Mains’ gift was not just in recalling what happened\, but in conjuring the texture of memory: the smell of lye soap\, the bite of cold air before a sled ride\, the warmth of apple pie after church. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/exhibition-arlee-mains-a-life-in-watauga/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Arts,Educational,Fall,History and Heritage,MAIN CALENDAR,Summer
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SUMMARY:ARS POETICA III Reception
DESCRIPTION:George Pfeffer\, Touch\, 2024\, photo of original mushroom spore pattern printed on archival paper with pigment ink\, 15 in. x 14.5 in. Image courtesy of the artist. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHead to BRAHM to celebrate the artists and poets of ARS POETICA III exhibition! The reception will include an awards ceremony to announce the pairings chosen for the two Judges’ Choice Awards as well as the People’s Choice Award. Light refreshments will be available. \nFree and open to the public. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/ars-poetica-iii-reception/
LOCATION:Blowing Rock Art & History Museum\, 159 Ginny Stevens Lane\, Blowing Rock\, NC\, 28605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Educational,Fall,MAIN CALENDAR
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251114T223000
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SUMMARY:Sam Bush at The App Theatre
DESCRIPTION:On a Bowling Green\, Kentucky cattle farm in the post-war 1950s\, Bush grew up an only son\, and with four sisters. His love of music came immediately\, encouraged by his parents’ record collection and\, particularly\, by his father Charlie\, a fiddler\, who organized local jams. Charlie envisioned his son someday a staff fiddler at the Grand Ole Opry\, but a clear day’s signal from Nashville brought to Bush’s television screen a tow-headed boy named Ricky Skaggs playing mandolin with Flatt and Scruggs\, and an epiphany for Bush. At 11\, he purchased his first mandolin. \n As a teen fiddler Bush was a three-time national champion in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest. He recorded an instrumental album\, Poor Richard’s Almanac as a high school senior and in the spring of 1970 attended the Fiddlers Convention in Union Grove\, NC. There he heard the New Deal String Band\, taking notice of their rock-inspired brand of progressive bluegrass. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/sam-bush-at-the-app-theatre/
LOCATION:Appalachian Theatre of the High Country\, 559 West King Street\, Boone\, NC\, 28607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Fall,MAIN CALENDAR,Music
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SUMMARY:Patrick Dougherty: Pilgrimage Reception
DESCRIPTION:2015. Photo: Brianna Brough/Chapel Hill Magazine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin BRAHM as they celebrate the exhibition\, Patrick Doughtery: Pilgrimage.  \nPatrick will be in the Gallery to answer questions about the work throughout his successful career\, and this premier exhibition at BRAHM. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/patrick-dougherty-pilgrimage-reception/
LOCATION:Blowing Rock Art & History Museum\, 159 Ginny Stevens Lane\, Blowing Rock\, NC\, 28605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Educational,Fall,MAIN CALENDAR
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251128T200000
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SUMMARY:The Barter Players: "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
DESCRIPTION:The Barter Players present this holiday family live theatrical production\, “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”.\nIt’s Christmas time at the Cincinnati Zoo\, and everyone eagerly anticipates the birth of Bella\, the zoo’s first baby hippo. Seven-year-old Lois Jean\, the zookeeper’s daughter\, is especially excited—she’s counting on Bella to reunite her family in time for the holidays. Then the unexpected happens\, and only one person can prevent tragedy. Will Santa arrive in time to save Bella—and Christmas?\nA heartwarming musical adventure for the whole family. \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/the-barter-players-i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas/
LOCATION:Appalachian Theatre of the High Country\, 559 West King Street\, Boone\, NC\, 28607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts,Christmas,Family,HOLIDAYS,MAIN CALENDAR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251129T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251129T140000
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SUMMARY:Annual Thanksgiving Kiln Opening at Bolick & Traditions Pottery
DESCRIPTION:Always the Saturday after Thanksgiving! Bolick and Traditions Pottery will host their Annual Thanksgiving Wood Kiln Opening on Saturday November 2. The groundhog style wood kiln will be unloaded at 10am on Saturday morning. Guests are encourage to be present at that time to watch the items being taken from the kiln and then make their selection. Michael will have face jugs including his much-desired Santas\, Wizards\, and Clay Spirits. Lula and Glenn will do traditional face jugs\, swirl mugs\, vases\, and pitchers. Janet will have candlesticks\, Rebekah Pitchers\, and teapots.  We invite guest potters to be a part of our event as well.  We will serve smoked BBQ  for lunch. No alcohol allowed. The Sales Cabin will also be stocked with electric fired pottery and seasonal items like large flower pots\,  jack-o’-lanterns\, and snowmen. \nJanet (Lula’s daughter) is a 6th generation. Together\, with their husbands\, Glenn Bolick and Michael Calhoun\, they produce shapes that have been in their family for more than 190 years. Each potter also has their own designs and techniques. This event is held at the Bolick & Traditions Pottery studio\, about 4 miles south of their gallery shop on Main Street in Blowing Rock.  Directions: head south on Hwy 321 from Blowing Roc about 3 miles\, turn left on Blackberry Road\, go ½ mile then turn right on Bolick Road. (14 miles north of Lenoir\, turn right on Blackberry Road.) \nWebsite
URL:https://blowingrock.com/event/annual-thanksgiving-kiln-opening-at-bolick-traditions-pottery/
LOCATION:Traditions Pottery Studio\, 4443 Bolick Road\, Blowing Rock\, 28605
CATEGORIES:Arts,Christmas,Family,History and Heritage,HOLIDAYS,MAIN CALENDAR,Shopping,Winter
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