Name: Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM
Start: 2025-08-20T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-20T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Blowing Rock Art & History Museum

August 2025
Exhibition: Daingerfield & The Tonalist Instinct

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - October 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Daingerfield & The Tonalist Instinct explores the development of Tonalism, a distinctly American artistic movement responding to early modernist impulses in painting. Emerging in the latter half of the 19th century, Tonalism was characterized by subtle color harmonies, soft atmospheric effects, and contemplative, mood-driven scenes. Often emphasizing twilight or dawn landscapes, tonalist works evoke introspective, serene, or even ominous atmospheres, prioritizing mood and emotional resonance over detailed realism.

Free Entry
Exhibition: The Shape of Color – Understanding Color Theory in BRAHM’s Collection

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - December 27, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This 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.

Free Entry
Exhibition: Mary Lou Higgins – Sibylline Faces

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - November 15, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This 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.

Free Entry
Exhibition: Arlee Mains – A Life in Watauga

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - November 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

This 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.

Free Entry
Artists in Residence: Claire Earwood & Skip Sickler

August 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am - August 17, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This free art show allows people to browse art from local artists, meet the artist, and purchase art directly from the artisan. Artists are often glad to talk about their process and answer questions. Different artists will be featured each week from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekends.

Free Entry
Women’s Beginner Backpack

August 15, 2025 - August 17, 2025

Speckled Trout Outfitters 916 Main St. Suite 100, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Disconnect from the business of daily life and settle into the presence, peace and quiet of nature on a weekend trip that will leave you feeling rejuvenated and inspired. You will learn all you need to know - from water filtration to what not to wipe with- and be provided with all necessary gear to safely, successfully, and joyfully backpack.

$600
Music on the Lawn

August 15, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Music on the Lawn

Inn At Ragged Gardens 203 Sunset Drive, Blowing Rock, NC

“Music on the Lawn” at The Inn at Ragged Gardens has become a much beloved outdoor concert series. Held each Friday from May through September (weather permitting), the event draws locals and visitors alike.

Free Entry
Grandfather by Night: Naturalist Program

August 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Grandfather by Night: Naturalist Program

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC

xplore the mountain after hours with your own personal guides during our Grandfather by Night series! You’ll discover some of the park’s nighttime wonders, watch a stunning sunset (weather permitting) and experience the mountain as never before!

$50
Children’s Story Time at Blowing Rock Community Library

August 16, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Blowing Rock Community Library 1022 Main St., Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Children Ages 2-8 and their parents are welcome to join us for stories, rhymes and fun! This event is free and open to the public.

Free
Artists in Residence: Maria Register & Ricky Evans

August 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - August 24, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This free art show allows people to browse art from local artists, meet the artist, and purchase art directly from the artisan. Artists are often glad to talk about their process and answer questions. Different artists will be featured each week from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekends.

Free Entry
Plein Air Festival

August 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am - August 23, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

The Blowing Rock Plein Air Festival is a four-day, open enrollment plein air painting event. It takes place in the beautiful mountainous area surrounding the town of Blowing Rock in western North Carolina, from Tuesday, August 19th, to Saturday, August 23rd, 2025.
Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM

August 20, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

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.

Free

August 2025