As the organization updates and organizes its archival materials, never-before-on-display pieces will be pulled out alongside long-beloved pieces from the permanent collection.
- Mike Conley
Learn more about the new displays.
- Sarah C. Johnson
"(My) teachers would encourage me to draw and paint. They would let me do murals on the chalkboard."
Randy Bell, one of Trade Alley Art's newest members, describes the inspiration behind five of his paintings.
- Destination McDowell
Look out for pottery, crafts and more.
- LISA O’DONNELL Staff Reporter
Now living in Bethania, Lake has conflicted feelings about his service, something that comes through in his poems, which are rooted in reality, not myth.
- ALLISON LEE ISLEY Staff Photojournalist
Stan Lake, an Iraq War Veteran, has published a book of poetry, “A Toad in a Glass Jar,” about his time in the war.
“It’s a show about just having fun. Whether the models themselves in their costumes, or me just painting what I enjoy, I hope to transmit that feeling of fun to the viewers!”
The annual Mountain Glory Quilters' Guild quilt show is on display at the McDowell Arts Council Association.
Casket salesman Jimmy Speas has won truckloads of fair ribbons over 60 years of exhibiting.
Jimmy Speas has exhibited flowers in the fair for the last 60 years, since he was 6 years old.
“When people hear the museum is closing, there’s a little anxiety around that. "But really ... this project means we are going to the next level.”
In this video from February 2024, Hickory Museum of Art Executive Director Clarissa Starnes talks about her local ties and love of art and the museum.
"Every time somebody comes and sees glass for the first time, touches and sees how it moves, that excitement reawakens that joy in glassblowing in me.”
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