Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics

MAY 29 – NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The pottery of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians originated in Western North Carolina nearly 3,000 years ago. Pottery techniques have changed and altered over time, from initial constructions of large, thin-walled pots with stamped geometric designs, to blackware from the early 20th century. Using contemporary techniques, Cherokee potters often incorporate Cherokee syllabary and other popular Cherokee symbols and forms into their work. This exhibition features the work of 11 Cherokee artists, such as Joel Queen and Davey Arch, and brings together both historic and contemporary pottery techniques. Ancient Forms, Modern Minds was organized by the Asheville Art Museum and made possible through the generous support of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation. The WCU Fine Art Museum is the last venue to host this important touring exhibition.

MUSEUM HOURS: M-F 10am-4pm/ Th 10am-7pm
Closed weekends & University holidays
828.227.3591

Before each 'An Appalachian Evening' concert, you can purchase a home-cooked Appalachian Dinner in the Schoolhouse Cafe from 6 to 7:30. Other Saturday evening cafe offerings include BBQ sandwich, hot dogs, Yellow Branch cheese and fruit plate, ice cream, homemade desserts, snacks and assorted drinks.

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Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler
May 29 –August 25 2017
Reception Thursday June 15, 5-7pm

Barbara Tyroler is an artist, photographer, educator, and community worker based in Chapel Hill, NC. This exhibition features select works from her water portrait photography. Her water portraits of individuals, groups, and couples are semi-abstractions produced from within or outside of various swimming pools. In some photos, her subjects’ bodies are recognizable, in others, only an impressionistic surface is visible. Tyroler’s portraits are lyrical studies of form and design as well as the story of people and places visually transformed by the reflective properties of water.

This exhibition coincides with the Barbara Tyroler’s workshop, “Considering Abstraction with the Camera” offered through Cullowhee Mountain Arts. The workshop will take place at Western Carolina University from June 11 – 16, 2017.

MUSEUM HOURS: M-F 10am-4pm/ Th 10am-7pm
Closed weekends & University holidays
828.227.3591

Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix

MAY 29– JULY 28, 2017
Reception Thursday July 27, 5-7pm

In the late 1970s, Harvey K. Littleton, founder of the Studio Glass Movement, relocated to Spruce Pine, NC. Here, Littleton continued his experiments in vitreography, a printmaking technique that eventually became the creative focus of his workshop, Littleton Studios. Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix, features the work of seventeen artists who produced vitreographs at Littleton Studios. Many of these artists did not typically work in the print medium but were painters, sculptors, ceramists, or glass artists. The exhibition pairs vitreographs with objects made in these artists’ primary medium from the collections of the WCU Fine Art Museum and Asheville Art Museum.

MUSEUM HOURS: M-F 10am-4pm/ Th 10am-7pm
Closed weekends & University holidays
828.227.3591

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Museum will be closed July 4, 2017 for Independence Day University Holiday

Join us on the UC lawn on Wednesdays from 12-2pm for DCA's annual $1 ice cream socials!

Starting May 31 and continuing weekly through August 2. 

Cash only!

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

For Catamount Gap & ASP students to learn from guest speakers and WCU Faculty and Staff about how to succeed at WCU and in life.

Beauty and the Beast
(live & animated versions)

6:00pm & 8:00pm
UC Theater

Cost: FREE!
(You can also enjoy free popcorn, drinks, and pizza during intermission!)

Beauty and the Beast (2017): An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.

Beauty and the Beast (1991): A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.

Before each 'An Appalachian Evening' concert, you can purchase a home-cooked Appalachian Dinner in the Schoolhouse Cafe from 6 to 7:30. Other Saturday evening cafe offerings include BBQ sandwich, hot dogs, Yellow Branch cheese and fruit plate, ice cream, homemade desserts, snacks and assorted drinks.

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Rose O'Neal Greenhow...presented by Debbi Blake, Raleigh, NC.  Debbi is manager of the Division of Archives and Records, NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources.  FREE.  Free parking in the lot to the right of the HF Robinson Building, first building as you enter WCU's campus.  6:30 social - lecture begins at 7pm. 

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Join us on the UC lawn on Wednesdays from 12-2pm for DCA's annual $1 ice cream socials!

Starting May 31 and continuing weekly through August 2. 

Cash only!

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Presentation from WCU police about various cyber crime topics.

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

For Catamount Gap & ASP students to learn from guest speakers and WCU Faculty and Staff about how to succeed at WCU and in life.

Join local urban fantasy authors at City Lights Bookstore for a reading and general lovefest for the fantastical--in our stories and in our lives on Saturday, July 15th at 3 p.m. They'll invite you to partake in a quiz "Are you Living an Urban Fantasy Novel?" Randi and Lauren find their lives are similar to one--you may be surprised by how much of your life is urban fantasy as well!

Lauren Devora has been writing ever since she knew how to use a pencil. Children of Lilith was first imagined during a particularly rough session of math homework when Lauren was 15. That night the story gained 25 pages and a cast of characters. Her math homework was never finished. Now after 10 years, she is beyond giddy to witness her book go off into the world.

Randi Janelle is an author, photographer, performance poet, yoga instructor, cat Whisperer... She calls Asheville home, but has lived and toured in Australia and New Zealand, and understands the phrases "fair dinkum" and "keen as." She's writing a novel series; the first is The Story: Deviation (available to revel in!), and the second book, The Story: Possession is making its way into this world. She's joined the circus, well, the Literary Circus--a troupe of fellow authors to showcase and encourage literary acts of wonder. And to top it off, she's sharing channeled material for personal and global evolution, assisting in a new era called the Age of Omniscience with her business Create the Leap.

To reserve copies of their books please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.

Before each 'An Appalachian Evening' concert, you can purchase a home-cooked Appalachian Dinner in the Schoolhouse Cafe from 6 to 7:30. Other Saturday evening cafe offerings include BBQ sandwich, hot dogs, Yellow Branch cheese and fruit plate, ice cream, homemade desserts, snacks and assorted drinks.

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Open House

Join us on the UC lawn on Wednesdays from 12-2pm for DCA's annual $1 ice cream socials!

Starting May 31 and continuing weekly through August 2. 

Cash only!

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

The Coffee with the Poet series continues on Thursday, July 20th at 10:30 a.m. at City Lights Bookstore. The July meeting will feature Winston-Salem poet, Sam Barbee. His poems have appeared Poetry South, Crucible, Asheville Poetry Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina, Potato Eyes, Georgia Journal, Main Street Rag, Iodine, and Pembroke Magazine, among others. His fiction has been recognized by the Norfolk Society for the Arts and published in Atlantis.

His second poetry collection, That Rain We Needed (Press 53), was published in April of 2016, and a nominee for the Roanoke-Chowan Award as one of North Carolina’s best poetry collections of 2016.  He was awarded an "Emerging Artist's Grant" from the Winston-Salem Arts Council to publish his first collection Changes of Venue (Mount Olive Press); has been a featured poet on the North Carolina Public Radio Station WFDD; received the 59th Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society for his poem "The Blood Watch"; and is a Pushcart nominee.

Sam lives in Winston-Salem with his wife and has two children, and retired from his day job of 32 years with the Winston-Salem Recreation Department.  He is the 2017 President-Elect for the NC Poetry Society and Past-President of Winston-Salem Writers. The Coffee with the Poet series gathers the third Thursday of each month and is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network. For more information please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

For Catamount Gap & ASP students to learn from guest speakers and WCU Faculty and Staff about how to succeed at WCU and in life.

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Join us on the UC lawn on Wednesdays from 12-2pm for DCA's annual $1 ice cream socials!

Starting May 31 and continuing weekly through August 2. 

Cash only!

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

Gap Engineering SI A discussion, meeting

RECEPTION: Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix

This is a closing reception on Thursday July 27, 5-7pm
Exhibit runs : MAY 29– JULY 28, 2017

In the late 1970s, Harvey K. Littleton, founder of the Studio Glass Movement, relocated to Spruce Pine, NC. Here, Littleton continued his experiments in vitreography, a printmaking technique that eventually became the creative focus of his workshop, Littleton Studios. Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix, features the work of seventeen artists who produced vitreographs at Littleton Studios. Many of these artists did not typically work in the print medium but were painters, sculptors, ceramists, or glass artists. The exhibition pairs vitreographs with objects made in these artists’ primary medium from the collections of the WCU Fine Art Museum and Asheville Art Museum.

MUSEUM HOURS: M-F 10am-4pm/ Th 10am-7pm
Closed weekends & University holidays
828.227.3591

Dulcimer Concert, free and open to the public

For Catamount Gap & ASP students to learn from guest speakers and WCU Faculty and Staff about how to succeed at WCU and in life.

Before each 'An Appalachian Evening' concert, you can purchase a home-cooked Appalachian Dinner in the Schoolhouse Cafe from 6 to 7:30. Other Saturday evening cafe offerings include BBQ sandwich, hot dogs, Yellow Branch cheese and fruit plate, ice cream, homemade desserts, snacks and assorted drinks.

Music Acting and Dance pieces performed by the students of the Triple Arts Summer intensive program

The Fine Art Museum will be closed
July 31 - August 20, 2017.

We will reopen for regular museum hours on Monday, August 21 with the new exhibit, Return From Exile.