Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM

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

Cork & Canvas

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

Learn to paint in a relaxed atmosphere, inspired by Claude Monet’s Three Trees in Spring. Each participant goes home with a finished work of art. All materials, including canvasses, acrylic paint, brushes, and aprons, are provided. A trained instructor will lead you step-by-step.

$50

Sit & Stitch

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

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones. Admission is free for everyone.

Free

Studio Saturdays: Pacita Abad

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

Youth aged 12-18 are invited to join us at BRAHM every second Saturday from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm this spring for directed studio time inspired by famous artists. Explore new styles and processes for making art. Meet new friends and express your creative side. Free for the community. Reservations are required due to limited space.

Free

Exhibition Reception for Young at Art

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

Join BRAHM in celebrating the amazing young artists from Blowing Rock School. Thanks to a grant from the Blowing Rock Community Foundation as well as private donors, students in Kindergarten through Fourth grade visit BRAHM each month to learn about art history and current Museum exhibits.

Free

Community Day – Make Your Own Needle-Felted Rocks

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

Join BRAHM artist in residence Sarah Vaughn for a drop-in event creating needle-felted stones like those featured in her current BRAHM installation, Considerations. Throughout the last week of April interact with the artist during her residency...

Free

Sit & Stitch

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

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones.

Free

Considerations: Mending Stones

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

Join BRAHM Friday, May 2, 2025 for a discussion between artist Sarah Vaughn and Reverend Andrew Hege about the significance and symbolism of stones in their work.

$8

Excavating One Ship with Two Identities: La Concorde and Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge

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

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been raised from the shipwreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge since full excavation began in 2005. Kimberly Kenyon of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology is the lead archaeologist for the site of Blackbeard’s infamous flagship, formerly the slave ship La Concorde.

Free

Considerations Tour with Sarah Vaughn at BRAHM

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

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.

Registration Required

Dail Dixon Artist Talk at BRAHM

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

Join artist Dail Dixon for an exploration of his exhibition, Dail Dixon: Modern at Scale. This program will explore Dail's life and development as an artist.

$8.00

Doc Watson A Life in Music: Book Discussion at BRAHM

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

Join Author Eddie Huffman as he takes us through is new book, Doc Watson: A Life In Music. Huffman will take us through the process of researching and writing the book and sharing some of his favorite stories about the man, the myth, the legend of the Blue Ridge, Doc Watson.