Erin Hallagan Clare opened Story Parlor last spring as a handful of other venues closed, fulfilling a longtime dream—opening a dependable co-op space dedicated to storytelling.

Even off the dance floor, Louise Runyon seeks movement in her poetry

Dec 20th, 2022 2m 19s

"Where is Our Prague Spring?” is a sensory tour of Runyon’s lived experiences in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Lee Stockdale turns to poetry to work through and beyond family trauma

Dec 20th, 2022 1m 58s

Fairview writer Lee Stockdale recounts several decades of memories in his new collection of poetry, titled "Gorilla.”

Multimedia installation in Pack Square amplifies local housing issues and the stories behind them

Nov 17th, 2022 1m 24s

On and around the former Vance Monument’s pedestal are sculpture, video projection, and fragments of audio interviews with people who are or have been without housing.

Asheville vocalist Jordan Scheffer has a clear vision about her emerging career

Nov 3rd, 2022 4m 53s

One of the most lauded performers at the past two LEAF Festivals, Jordan Scheffer is leaning into the music and inspiration of Black artists.

Dave Hartley of The War on Drugs gets local and vulnerable with his latest Nightlands album

Oct 26th, 2022 4m 48s

"Moonshine" is the fourth album Hartley has released as Nightlands.

Oct 20th, 2022 4m 33s

Callan White and Jennifer Gatti co-star in "Roommate" at NC Stage through Oct. 30

Many regard LEAF as a music festival, but founder Jennifer Pickering has always known it’s about community

Oct 12th, 2022 4m 43s

Performances and workshops for the upcoming festival run October 20-23 at Lake Eden in Black Mountain.

Months into creating her latest work, sculptor Nina Kawar found she was marking her own journey

Sep 21st, 2022 3m 3s

The solo exhibition "Journey Home" is on view through Oct. 9 at Continuum Art in Hendersonville.

Claude Coleman will play music ‘anywhere, everywhere, all the time.’ His latest venture helps others make music too

Sep 14th, 2022 4m 37s

The drummer of Ween is also the co-founder of SoundSpace, a former motel converted into a band rehearsal studio.

‘Disruption’ is just the start of a shift in storytelling at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian

Sep 13th, 2022 1m 49s

The museum removed culturally sensitive artifacts and replaced them with a range of media from contemporary Cherokee artists.

Ann Dunn, nearly 76, creates meditation on opacity and transparency for Asheville Ballet’s season opener

Sep 7th, 2022 3m 51s

Two hip replacements haven't kept the matriarch of ballet in Western North Carolina off the dance floor.

Jon Stickley’s bluegrass band ditched vocals and found its voice

Aug 30th, 2022 4m 26s

The Asheville guitarist has earned acclaim for his progressive musicianship and songcraft

Smoky Mountain Sirens have wrapped female empowerment into a big-sounding rock record

Aug 24th, 2022 4m 40s

The women's trio performs their entire debut album, "Solid 8," at a record-release show Friday at Fleetwood's in West Asheville.

Founded as a platform for Black actors, Different Strokes founder wants to go further

Aug 18th, 2022 1m 36s

Stephanie Hickling Beckman wants to develop work from Black playwrights writing roles specifically for Black actors.

Abby Bryant emerges from an upbringing in the church to define herself in secular music

Aug 16th, 2022 4m 11s

Abby Bryant and her band are opening for Lucinda Williams Aug. 20 at Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain

For experimental guitarist Tashi Dorji, the song never remains the same

Aug 12th, 2022 4m 22s

Tashi Dorji is a solo artist and experimental collaborator who has won a following with his improvisational music.

With Curatory Gallery, Ashten McKinney creates an outlet in Waynesville for underrepresented artists

Jul 15th, 2022 4m 22s

Ashten McKinney is the owner and, currently, primary exhibiting artist of Curatory Gallery, which they launched to promote underrepresented and marginalized creatives.

Rising Appalachia is a band, but the founding sisters say it’s also a community

Jul 7th, 2022 4m 59s

The pandemic cut the sisters off from their people, but not their muse. They formed a songwriting group with three other women, each of them sharing new music with one another every week for the past two years and counting. They said they’re ex

From intern to director, Lex Turnbull is determined to keep Asheville's Revolve a thriving community arts space

Jun 28th, 2022 4m 34s

Revolve hosts visual arts exhibitions, performance art installations and esoteric music performances—a programming mix unseen anywhere else in this region—but revenue has always been a challenge.

Author Mindi Meltz writes fairytales for adults, weaving the earthly and otherworldly

Jun 17th, 2022 3m 51s

Mindi Meltz has just published the final part of her “After Ever After” trilogy. The inspiration and larger question behind the series is right there in the title. Meltz wanted to explore what happens after the happily ever after.

In digital era, zine publishers haven’t stopped expressing themselves by hand

Jun 14th, 2022 4m 16s

Zines are the shortened name for fan magazines. The format came of age in the 1930s and hasn’t changed much since. Writing or drawing on paper, hand-stapling or twine-binding and short-run copies are still at the heart of the practice. Some her