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Freedom! A Promise Disrupted: North Carolina, 1862 – 1901

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources 176 Riceville Road, Asheville, North Carolina

The Western Office of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources will host the exhibit, Freedom! A Promise Disrupted: North Carolina, 1862-1901 from February 3rd to March 31st.  Created by staff at the N.C. […]

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Exhibition Celebration: Unearthing Our Forgotten Past, Fort San Juan

Mars Hill University: Rural Heritage Museum 100 Athletic Street, Mars Hill, NC, United States

The new exhibition on display in MHU’s Rural Heritage Museum (on loan from the Exploring Joara Foundation) chronicles the Spanish incursion into the area of present-day Burke County. Archaeologists have […]

Carolinas Veterans Museum Reopens with World War II Jeep Exhibit

Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas 21 East Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

The Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas reopens for 2022 on March 2, and new this year is an exhibit featuring a World War II Willys Jeep. The exhibit places […]

Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture

Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

The Transylvania Heritage Museum's new exhibit, Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture, is now on display. This exhibit shows how early settlers made their way into the Appalachian Mountains and made […]

Carl Sandburg Home Summer Plays & Sing-Alongs

Carl Sandburg Home NHS 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC, United States

In mid-June, Carl Sandburg Home will offer free summer children’s plays and family sing-alongs. The park will also expand Sandburg Home hours to four days per week.   Apprentice actors […]

Discovering Appalachia

Mountain Heritage Center Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, WCU, Cullowhee, NC, United States

Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia is a cultural crossroads that has been visited and inhabited by people from many different cultural backgrounds. Discover talented and hard working people who […]

Away From Home

Mountain Heritage Center Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, WCU, Cullowhee, NC, United States

Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing children—of all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse […]

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Presents: Disruption Exhibit

Museum of the Cherokee People 598 Tsali Blvd., NC, Cherokee, NC, United States

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI) opens Disruption, an art intervention of the Museum’s permanent exhibition. Featuring works by 36 enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians […]

Welcome Summer Social at BE Artists Gallery

BE Artists Gallery The Historic Banner Elk School, 185 Azalea Circle, Banner Elk, NC, United States

Join us for a “Welcome Summer” Social on Saturday, June 24, between 1 and 4 p.m.!  A number of our member and consignment artists will be on-hand to discuss their […]

Elemental Energy

Mars Landing Galleries 37 Library Street, Mars Hill, NC, United States

Red Metal Open Studio for Penland Auction Weekend

Red Metal Studio 299 Freeman Road, Waynesville, NC, United States

Rachel David of Rd Metal welcomes interested Penland auction goers, artists, collectors, and all to the studio to see selected available and in-process pieces. The workshop, nestled in the beautiful […]

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