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Fall Exhibition Celebration

Our seasonal Exhibition Celebrations are some of our biggest gatherings of the year! Three times a year—winter, summer, and fall, the Museum hosts a reception to celebrate our latest changeover […]

FREE

Fines Creek Heritage Fair and Music Festival

Food, Exhibits, and much more! Hotdog Plate $5 Hamburger Plate $6 (Both include chips, baked beans, dessert and drink) Exhibits and Live Demonstrations with Sunset Cruisers, Ole Smoky Antique Tractor […]

$3.00

Fines Creek Heritage Fair and Music Festival

Food, Music, Exhibits, and much more.  Food offered: Hotdog Plate $5 Hamburger Plate $6 (Both include chips, baked beans, dessert and drink) and Saturday at 5 pm: Poor Man’s Supper: […]

$10.00

Fines Creek Fair and Music Festival

Food, Exhibits, and much more.  Food offered: Hotdog Plate $5 Hamburger Plate $6 (Both include chips, baked beans, dessert and drink).  Exhibits and Live Demonstrations by: Sunset Cruisers, Ole Smoky […]

$5.00

Coffee with the Curator: Southern Strands Exhibition

Take a walk through the galleries with the Curator and get a behind-the-scenes look into the Southern Strands: North Carolina Fiber Art an exhibit made possible by a grant from the Blue Ridge […]

Spruce Pine Potters Market

Cross Street Commerce Building 31 Cross Street , Spruce Pine, NC, United States

The Spruce Pine Potters Market is a unique gathering and sale of our region’s greatest potters and clay artists. Purchase beautiful handmade pottery from 30 artists and enjoy wonderful wood-fired […]

FREE

Valle Country Fair

Valle Crucis Conference Center Fair Grounds Highway 194, Valle Crucis, NC, United States

Come early, stay late and enjoy live music in the big tent from 9 to 4 pm in a beautiful and historic mountain setting. More than 160 top quality, juried […]

FREE

Appalachian Folk Festival at Vance Birthplace

Vance Birthplace State Historic Site 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville, NC, United States

This event will celebrate the traditions and cultures of the people who called the North Carolina mountains home in the early 1800s! Visitors can tour the site’s pioneer mansion and […]

FREE

Crafty Historian at Smith-McDowell House

Smith-McDowell House 283 Victoria Road, Asheville, NC, United States

Come join the Crafty Historian and try your hand at paper quilling. Quilling is the art of curling strips of paper into interesting designs. The craft got its name from […]

Halloween Open House: Creepy Crafts

Bring the little goblins to the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum for some "creepy crafts" on Saturday, October 26th from 2-3 pm! Join us for Halloween-themed hands-on activities for […]

FREE

Blacksmith & Fine Craft Auction

John C. Campbell Folk School One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC, United States

Our annual Blacksmith Auction features some of the finest artist-blacksmith work, as well as a wide selection of other fine craft items made by Folk School instructors and students. Proceeds […]

FREE

Brevard’s Gallery Walk

Transylvania Community Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell Street, Brevard, NC, United States

Enjoy an evening stroll in downtown Brevard, NC as you explore art, music and wine. More than 30 galleries, studios, stores and restaurants will stay open late from 5:00 pm […]

Free

We welcome submission of Western North Carolina events focused on our heritage themes of mountain music, crafts, foodways, outdoors and Cherokee culture. Please submit two weeks in advance.

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