True Blue Art Supply

Opening Reception for Kristalyn Bunyan
Saturday February 9, 6:30-8:00 pm
True Blue Art Supply
Join us for an opening reception for our artist of the month, Kristalyn Bunyan. All prints (framed and unframed) are offered on a sliding scale and work can walk as soon as sold. The reception will begin at 6:30 pm and we’ll be staying open an extra hour, until 8:00 pm. There will be music with Asheville’s own acoustic DJ, Mike Gray, and light refreshments. We hope you can come out to meet the artist and view this wonderful exhibit!

The Big Crafty
Sunday December 2, 2-6pm
Asheville Art Museum
Voted Asheville’s favorite arts and crafts festival for three years in a row, The Big Crafty features indie crafters and artists working in a variety of mediums, music, food, and free admission to the museum’s current exhibitions.

Holiday Art Market
December 4-9
Asheville Art Museum
The Asheville Art Museum invites you to their Holiday Market, featuring locally and regionally made gift items, art objects, home decor, jewelry and much more.

Downtown Art Walk
Friday December 7, 5-8pm
Twenty-three downtown galleries invite you to come see their ever-changing exhibits.

Angela Alexander: Adornment & Paws
Friday December 7, 5-7pm
Woolworth Walk
This month’s featured artist is Angela Alexander, best known for her vibrant paintings of dogs and cats. A portion of all sales will benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.

Heather Shirin: Dolce Far Niente
Friday December 7, 5-8pm
Working Girls Studio and Gallery
New works by Heather Shirin, focusing on portraits of women done on wood panels with acrylic paint, fine art papers, and gold leaf.

Native Intelligence: Works by Géza Brunow
Friday December 7, 6-9pm
AAAC ARTery
Géza Brunow’s new works echo the same vision and pursuit taken by painters and writers of magical realism, to reflect “a new kind of wakefulness,” ignoring collector sensibilities, and painting just for himself and his fellow creatives.

Jen Rielle Bowen at True Blue  
Friday December 7, 6:30-8pm
Join us for our first ever art opening, featuring new works by our Local Artist of the Month Jen Rielle Bowen. Her art will be on display from December 5-31 and we will be staying open an extra hour for the opening.

Joshua Spiceland: Closing Reception
Friday December 21, 8-10pm
The One Stop Deli and Bar
Joshua Spiceland is the featured artist for the month of December at The One Stop. There will be a closing reception on December 21, featuring music by Electric Blanket.

310 Art presents: “Earth and Sky”
Now through January 2013
On display at 310 Art in the River Arts District, this exhibit features work by Betty Carlson, Bob Martin,  Fleta Monaghan and other notable local artists.

Kin – Paintings by Ursula Gullow
Friday November 9, 7-10pm
PUSH Gallery and Skate Shop
PUSH presents an exhibition of new works based on family photographs from the 70′s by Ursula Gullow, which she describes as exploring “the intersection between memory and documentation.”

True Blue Customer Appreciation Party
Sunday November 18, Noon-6pm
To coincide with our Staff Show we will be holding our very first Customer Appreciation Party! Join us for discounts and specials, demonstrations by local artists, hot cider, and light refreshments. We’ll even be staying open an extra hour to better accommodate you and show our thanks!

Tami Beldue
The ARTery
Friday October 5, 6-9pm
This month’s artist at the Asheville Area Arts Council’s ARTery is Tami Beldue, a portrait artist who captures subtle gestures and postures in graphite. The exhibition runs through October 30.

Dia De Los Muertos
ZaPow!
Friday October 5, 7-9pm
This group show will feature many brightly colored skulls in honor of the departed. There will also be live music, face painting, palm reading, and free beer and refreshments.

A Wrinkle In Time: Graphic Novel Book Signing and Student Art Contest
Spellbound Children’s Bookshop
Saturday October 6, 1:00pm
Asheville native Hope Larson will be signing her graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel. Winners will be announced for the student art contest, with works by local students in grades 4-8.

Biltmore Lake Art And Craft Festival
Biltmore Lake
Saturday October 6, 10am-4pm
The sixth annual Art and Craft Festival will feature arts and crafts in a variety of areas, including painting, ceramics, wood, fabric, fiber, metal, photography, and more.

Asheville Art In The Park
Pack Square Park
October 6, 13, and 20, 10am-6pm
Asheville Art In The Park wraps up this month, with local and national artists displaying their work in Pack Square Park on three consecutive Saturdays in October.

Second Saturday
River Arts District
Saturday October 13
Join the artists of the River Arts District the second Saturday of each month for a day of artist demonstrations, classes, open studios and fun.

East Of Asheville Studio Tour
October 13-14, 10am-6pm
Artists of East Asheville, Swannanoa, Black Mountain and Fairview invite you to visit their studios.

City Of 1000 Easels
Sunday October 14, 3-6pm
A self-guided walking tour of downtown Asheville where visual artists working in any media are invited to create work live in front of an audience of passers-by.

Craft Fair Of The Southern Highlands
US Cellular Center
October 18-21
Over 200 craftspeople fill the two levels of the center selling their works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry.

Lynn Boggess – New Work
The Haen Gallery
Sat October 20, 5:30pm
The Haen Gallery hosts an exhibition of new plein air landscapes by local artist Lynn Boggess.

Weaverville Art Safari
October 27-28
A free, self-guided tour of artists’ home studios in the scenic area surrounding the villages of Weaverville and Barnardsville, NC.

Appalachian Pastel Society National Juried Exhibition
The Asheville School
Tuesday October 30, 5-7pm
The Appalachian Pastel Society (APS) presents the 2012 APS National Juried Exhibition from October 18 through December 14 at The Asheville School’s Crawford Art Gallery in Asheville, NC, with the Awards Reception on October 30 from 5 to 7 pm.

Rena Lindstrom – Let Color Be Itself
September 3-October 7
West End Bakery hosts this installation by artist Rena Lindstrom, influenced by Zen practice. Panels of color hang on the wall in the order in which they were painted. On the back of each panel is a hexagram from the I Ching.

Asheville Downtown Gallery Association Gallery Walk
Friday August 3, 5-8pm
The ADGA invites you to come out and see a wide variety of fine art and craft at 23 downtown galleries.

Mel Chin: High, Low and In Between
Friday August 3, 5-7pm
The Asheville Art Museum hosts a special presentation of “The Funk & Wag from A to Z” and meditations on war, religion, and politics by renowned artist Mel Chin. The exhibit is already on display and will run through November 25, with the opening on August 3.

Working Girls Studio and Gallery Dog Show
Friday August 3, 5-8pm
Working Girls Studio and Gallery presents their first annual dog show, featuring custom pet portraits. 25% of the proceeds will go to Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.

High Strung: Recent works
by Alicia Armstrong Chatham
Friday August 3, 5-8pm
The Atelier Gallery hosts this show of recent works by Alicia Armstrong Chatham, an artist who paints on wood panels and attempts to portray tension and uncertainty through her art.

Cryptozoology
Friday August 3, 7pm
The Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, the Chupacabra…all fodder for this hair raising art opening at ZaPow! See our artists’ take on all things weird and unusual in nature. Is it real? You be the judge!

Ladies of Letterpress Conference
August 2-5, 2012
Renaissance Hotel
The second annual Ladies of Letterpress Conference welcomes all lovers of letterpress to Asheville. This event is free and open to the public.

Anna Jensen at The Artery
Friday August 10, 6-9pm
Anna Jensen is August’s artist of the month at the AAAC’s Artery Gallery on Depot Street. The exhibit runs through August 30.

Friends and Allies For the Struggle: The Art of Chris Ortega
Saturday August 18, 5-7pm
True Blue employee Chris Ortega will be having his debut solo exhibit in Asheville at The One Stop Deli and Bar featuring recent works in a wide variety of styles and mediums. The exhibit runs through October 6.

Illustrator Shop Talk
Saturday August 18, 10am-4pm
This free event at ZaPow for aspiring cartoonists and illustrators will feature key note speaker Andy Smith, well known for his for for DC and Marvel comics.

Call For Art: The 7th Annual Anything Goes Mail Art Show
Submission deadline is September 1
The Courtyard Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Studios invites you to send in your entries for this year’s Mail Art Show. If it can be mailed it will be shown!