Blog – Page 34 – TOWARD THE CLEARING by Jean Cassidy

Rising Appalachia

As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots to create the inviting new folk album, Leylines. Remarkably the band has built its legion of listeners independently...

Celebrate Earth Day at the National Museum of the American Indian’s Living Earth Festival

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The online festival explores sustainability and innovation in Indigenous agriculture with Native American films, business representatives, and youth leaders. The National Museum of the American Indian – in Hyperallergic

AT LARGE by Katherine Soniat

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in The Thinking Republic The winged-warrior pathologies antiquely arranged are meant to stay. Why blame old cartographer for plans on water? Or latter-day men who came to want more and more of the land—scratching Earth...

PAN HARMONIA Chamber music repertory

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Intimate, engaging music for everyone PAN HARMONIA is Asheville, NC’s award-winning chamber music repertory company. Created and directed by flutist Kate Steinbeck, it has been nationally recognized for its artistic excellence and creative...

PATTY CARROLL contemporary photography

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b. 1946, American photographer For her Anonymous Women series (2016-2019), Patty Carrol creates and photographs colorfully constructed installations to humorously consider gender-based domestic roles. Each image features a headless and anonymous...

Women take the floor: an exhibition that shifts the male gaze of art history

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At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, female artists throughout history are being given their due in a vital new exhibition

On Art, and Finding a Way Home

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I think art of any kind has to do with finding one’s way home, that is, back to oneself perhaps for the first time. Art often helps connect heart and mind, to find the story one is searching for.

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Flatiron Writers Room

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Located at 5 Covington Street in West Asheville’s vibrant Haywood Road corridor, the Flatiron Writers Room provides space for writers to learn, teach, read, celebrate and, of course, WRITE. The Flatiron Writers Room is an outgrowth...

Bringing attention to exploited obedience, spiritual abuse in religious communities

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By Joyce Meyer There has been much written recently about rising incidents of abuse and violence against women, including an important meeting of the U.N. Commission on Women. Through conversations about this, I also learned of...

THE FINE ART OF TEBBE DAVIS

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We have all been placed in this life to explore and discover our Purpose; our voice, a vision and meaning to life. It’s as if the purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life. Its just that easy. The path to the end, which is NOW! (so...

Gertrude Stein puts the “there” back in Oakland

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What exactly did renowned U.S. writer and art collector Gertrude Stein mean when she said “there is no there there” about Oakland, California? In honor of Gertrude Stein’s 138th birthday today, we explore the meaning of this oft-quoted phrase. ht...