Dail Dixon, FAIA, is an architect, craftsman, and a modernist at heart. This installation, featuring works from his woodworking studio, explores how this celebrated North Carolina architect, known for his innovative design sensibilities, translates modernist principles into playful, functional artworks.
Anna Buckner is a painter in the most expanded sense. An interdisciplinary artist and maker, she creates compositions at the intersection of textile patterning, graphic design, and painting. And other Myths is a body of work that leverages the storytelling potential of quilting within the context of painterly composition and design precision.
This exhibition celebrates the artists behind beloved children’s books of the mid-20th century, offering a glimpse into the creative process of illustration and storytelling.
Sarah Vaughn’s Considerations invites visitors to step into a landscape of thousands of carefully crafted glass river rocks. Made using techniques like blowing, flame-working, casting, and laminating, these fragile stones are stacked and arranged to create an immersive installation that explores how we experience and remember the world around us.
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Alair Homes High Country Summer Concert Series! Hosted in Downtown Blowing Rock at Memorial Park, this year’s concert series is a food drive for @HungerHealthCoalition’s A Simple Gesture Program.
Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric DeVere will be guiding the weekly meditation group.
Blowing Rock Farmers Market is back! Every Thursday starting May 8 through October 2025 from 12-6 PM. Head on over to 379 Sunset Drive (by Antiques on Sunset) and support your local farmers!
Head over to The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop to get your tunes fix and hear some live music! Thursdays from 6-8pm.
Head over to J. McLaughlin and enjoy sips and light bites with 10% of the proceeds benefitting Blowing Rock Community Library! From 12-4pm on May 23.
Stop by Shoppes on the Parkway on Memorial Day weekend for Live Music, Guest Entertainers, and Holiday Sales. Live music on Saturday with local musician Keith Stroud...
Use collage, drawing, journaling, and painting to express your healing journey and vision for the future. Create a "zine" format vision board collage with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator Andi Gelsthorpe for this FREE workshop. Ages 16+
Take a daily, short, guided stroll at 1 PM that highlights Grandfather Mountain’s rhododendron species and blooms. Included with admission.
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