Upcoming Exhibitions
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: Bunzl Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: May 14, 2022
- THROUGH: August 27, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Various
- GUEST CURATOR(S): Kate Anderson
The works selected for this exhibition break down the barrier between stereotypes, folklore, and lived experience.
- GALLERY: Joel Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: July 16, 2022
- THROUGH: December 23, 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.
- 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.
- GALLERY: Bunzl Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: September 10, 2022
- THROUGH: December 3, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Woodblock Prints
- GUEST CURATOR(S): Gibbes Museum
Lasting Impressions presents sixty of the finest Japanese prints in the Read-Simms Collection at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
- GALLERY: Thompson Gallery
- ARTIST(S): Various
- ON DISPLAY: September 24, 2022
- THROUGH: December 23, 2022
- MEDIUM(S): Musical Instruments
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 evolution of design in Southern Appalachia.
Current Exhibitions
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Outdoor Sculpture 2022 - 2023
2022 marks the second year of annual outdoor sculpture exhibit outside on The Bascom Campus.
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Each Moment: The Bascom Photography Resident - Anna Norton
Nothing will tell you where you are. Each moment is a place you've never been. —Mark Strand
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, Marianne + Mark Mahaffey, C. Marie Sharpe, Marcia + Charlie Weber, Woodcrest Foundation, Ann Wrobleski + Phil Truluck
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in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.