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GO TO..... Asheville Area Arts Council (AAAC) ... |
| "...The Asheville Area Arts Council (AAAC) was founded more than forty years ago as a community arts council serving the needs of Western North Carolina. Designed as an umbrella service organization, AAAC is dedicated to developing cultural resources, city and audience development, fund raising and grant allocations, and administrative service assistance..."
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GO TO..... HandMade in America Craft Registry ... |
| "...Western North Carolina is world-renowned for its vibrant craft community. The HandMade in America Craft Registry is your portal into the most comprehensive and current directory of artists, galleries, craft resources - schools, organizations, suppliers - and craft events in Western North Carolina. We hope you will find it very user-friendly; it is easily searched and has links to most relevant websites. To receive a bi-weekly email newsletter with current WNC craft events, please go to "Mailing Lists". Enjoy the richness of Western North Carolina's craft community and help support it in all ways possible...."
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GO TO..... Blue Ridge Web Market ... |
| "...This public online market is a showcase of goods and services from small businesses and microenterprises in the mountains of western North Carolina. The products and services you find here reflect the special sense of place in our part of the world..."
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GO TO..... The Media Arts Project of Western North Carolina... |
| "...Short Term: Hosting and Promoting Events The short-term goals for The MAP will be to host and promote public events of cultural significance that enhance networking among diverse communities of media artists, scientists, technology developers and educators. MAP events will act as a showcase and point of contact for media makers and artists seeking technology and technology developers seeking media makers. The events will aim at enhancing public awareness of how media arts technologies are changing the way we communicate and express ourselves. Mid Term: Exhibition, Education, & Training The mid-range goals of The MAP are twofold: 1) develop an environment to create and exhibit works of artistic and technological merit and 2) to operate an educational resource center for providing access to project-based training in the tools of communication. Long Term: Ongoing Exchange, Collaboration, & Research Long term goals of The MAP will be to support the development of a Media Arts Center to provide a state of the art facility for the dynamic exchange interdisciplinary research between the arts and the sciences, with an eye towards sending innovative media arts and technologies from the southeastern United States onto the international stage...." Return to SUPPORT Index... |
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GO TO..... Arts 2 People ... |
| "...Arts2People is a local non-profit that serves to promot the arts of Western North Carolina through outreach programs. Arts2People brings art to people in need of healing, provide support to rising artists and cultivates Asheville's creative culture through community development programs. Arts2People coordinates the annual Lexington Ave. Arts and Fun Festival in September as well as launching the painting of various murals in and around Asheville..."
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