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The Bascom’s major exhibitions highlight the work of the artists who live and work in our region, Bascom instructors and students, Artist Fellows and Residents, as well as world-renowned artists whose work might not otherwise be seen in this region. The Bascom's 3 galleries and the Winkler Sculpture and Nature Trail are host to approximately 10 exhibitions each year, which pair with our Outreach and Education departments to attract 20,000 visitors to The Bascom. Free guided tours are available upon advanced request.
The Bascom Annual Theme: Place
As makers and creators, human beings experience the world as both a place given to them and as a place they can mark, shape, and mold. The places that become homes to us offer familiarity, comfort, and even companionship. Places seem to have their own identities – they act on us, call us to them, invite response. Many creative acts seem to emanate from the experience of place – a stunning landscape or a quiet interior can express or even recall the sense of a place.
Art itself can both represent a place (e.g., Monet’s Giverny) or become part of a place-making activity (e.g.,Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands). The act of place-making can be both literal (building a house) and imaginative (Alice in Wonderland).
The year’s theme invites us to consider place and places as sources of beauty, as generators of community and belonging, as locations that invite response. Works shared this year celebrate the human experience of place and its resonance in art forms.
The theme of place also invites us to consider places as sources of longing, loss, separation, and dis-placement. As such, viewers are able to consider the ambivalence of the places we love – the ways in which we are too attached, or too detached from the land, the people, and the communities we inhabit.
As you consider the theme of place this year, we invite you to find moments to see, think, do, and be, in this place, our Bascom home in the western mountains of North Carolina.
- GALLERY: Horst Winkler Sculpture Trail
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: April 22, 2022
- THROUGH: April 22, 2023
- MEDIUM(S): Sculpture
2022 marks the second year of annual outdoor sculpture exhibit outside on The Bascom Campus.
- GALLERY: Bunzl Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: May 14, 2022
- THROUGH: August 27, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Various
- GUEST CURATOR(S): Kate Anderson
- GALLERY: Joel Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: July 16, 2022
- THROUGH: December 31, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Photography
- GUEST CURATOR(S): Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust
Explore The Bascom's 2022 theme of "Place" through the lens of Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust properties.
Our mountains are among some of the oldest in the world. Over time, geologic processes have resulted in a complex landscape that is home to a great diversity of habitats for plants and animals. Home to more flowering plant species than anywhere else in the temperate zone, 250 are found nowhere else but here.
- GALLERY: Thompson Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: July 30, 2022
- THROUGH: September 10, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Various
The Bascom presents our 6th annual juried Member Challenge: PLACE, an exhibit in our Thompson Gallery. As makers and creators, human beings experience the world as both a place given to them and as a place they can mark, shape, and mold. The places that become homes to us offer familiarity, comfort, and even companionship. Join The Bascom in embracing PLACE as our annual theme for 2022.
Coming Soon
Lasting Impressions
Lasting Impressions presents sixty of the finest Japanese prints in the Read-Simms Collection at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
See MoreCraft to Art Series: Tapping into Tone
Our fifth installment in our Craft to Art series covers Musical Instruments and their history of use, importance in defining regional culture, material construction, and...
See MoreTHE BASCOM WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR 2022 EXHIBITION SPONSORS
YEAR-ROUND
Claire + Alex Crumbley
Cathy + Bob Fisher
Dianne + Myron Mall
Heath Massey + John Mitchener
EXHIBIT SPONSORS
Dan + Marty Boone, Hillary Cone, Margaret + Dallas Denny, Lynn DeVault + Glo Ghegan, Lisa + Carlos Evans, Carol Misner + Ann Huckstep, Jane Jerry, Lucy + Jack Kuhne, Nancy + Charles Lichtman, Marianne + Mark Mahaffey, Butchie + Alan Neely, C. Marie Sharpe, Marcia + Charlie Weber, Woodcrest Foundation, Ann Wrobleski + Phil Truluck
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