Art in Bloom
June 19-22, 2025
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This year marks the 19th Annual Art in Bloom, our most anticipated event of the year. This multifaceted event, celebrating nature and art, combines two gallery exhibits, live floral arrangements, and a local garden tour featuring working artists. Whether you join us for one event or all of them, you are playing an important role in supporting the arts in our community.
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Click the button below for more information on tickets, workshops, sponsors, our guest of honor, and more!
Summer Dance Pop-Ups!
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Select Saturdays and Thursdays
June, July, & August
Ages 1.5-Adult
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This summer, we're twirling into action with a series of dance pop-up classes for all ages designed to bring joyful, accessible movement experiences to the Swannanoa Valley. Whether you’re the parent or caregiver of a little one that you want to introduce to dance, you have a young mover on your hands, or you are ready for some personal dance time, we've something for everyone! Click the button below for the full lineup!
Don Stiernberg, Evan Price, Greg Ruby and Kevin Kehrberg Live in Concert
Thursday, July 3rd • 7pm
Tickets $20
Don Stiernberg, Evan Price, Greg Ruby and Kevin Kehrberg weave together Hot Club Jazz , mando-bop and old school swing – all on an acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin and upright bass. In town on the teaching staff for the Swannanoa Gathering Fiddle and Mandolin week, they will bring their improvisational collectivity to the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.​
With Greg from New York, Don from Chicago, Evan from San Francisco, and Kevin from Asheville, the four have collaborated every summer while in residency as teaching staff at the Swannanoa Gathering. In 2020 and 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic prevented them from getting together so instead they created a remote record “Rhythm Twist”. Each musician composed one song and arranged two others. Passing charts, tracks and ideas between them, they created something unique and collective. Guitarist Greg Ruby states, “not only did this project help us maintain a sense of sanity and ground us in creativity, it kept us in touch with each other while riding out a very strange period of human history."