Name: Valle Country Fair
Start: 2025-10-18T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-18T16:00:00-04:00

October 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
Broom Making Demo at Moses Cone Manor

October 9, 2025 @ 10:00 am - October 12, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Moses Cone Manor Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Peter Werner will be demonstrating traditional Appalachian broom-tying, which is how he creates his whisks, cake testers, and large sweepers. This demonstration will be held on the front porch of the the Moses Cone Manor from 10am-4pm.

Free
Exploring Tonalist Painting with Kyle Buckland

October 10, 2025 @ 9:00 am - October 12, 2025 @ 2:00 pm

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

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Tonalism, taught by nationally acclaimed landscape painter Kyle Buckland. This workshop will guide you through the core principles of this evocative style, including limited palettes, close values, and creating a sense of mood and atmosphere through subtle color variations.

$349.00
Sugar Mountain Resort’s Oktoberfest

October 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am - October 12, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Sugar Mountain Ski Resort 1009 Sugar Mountain Drive, Sugar Mountain, NC

Enjoy a two-day Oktoberfest from 10:00am until 5:00pm in the North Carolina Mountains. The festival features live Bavarian music by the Harbour Towne Fest band, German and American food & beverages, a children’s fun center, hay rides; local & regional craft fair, lift-rides on the Summit Express chairlift, a winter sports shop sale, lodging specials and much, much more.
Fall Color Rambles

October 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Fall Color Rambles

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC

From Oct. 4 through 12, guests enjoy short, guided nature walks that highlight Grandfather Mountain’s fall colors. The Fall Color Rambles take place daily, weather permitting, and are included in your admission ticket. The short excursions begin at 1 p.m. and typically last for 30 minutes. Rambles will start outside the entrance of the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery.

Included with Admission
Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM

October 15, 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
Tunes at the Trout – Thursdays

October 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop 922 Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC

Head over to The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop to get your tunes fix and hear some live music! Thursdays from 6-8pm.
Cottonwood Bark Carving Demo at Moses Cone Manor

October 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - October 19, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Moses Cone Manor Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Tom Gow will be demonstrating how he carves whimsical cottages out of the thick bark of fallen cottonwood trees. This demonstration will be held on the front porch of the the Moses Cone Manor from 10am-4pm.

Free
Valle Country Fair

October 18, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

The annual Valle Country Fair is a sure favorite among locals and visitors. Local food and crafts fill the space, while musicians and demonstrators entertain all day. Admission is free, but bring cash for parking and easy shopping.

Free Entry

October 2025