Quatro Vetro
Sterling Crandall, Michael Hatch, Rick Melby and Rob O'Sheeran
May 2-June 28, 2008; Opening: Friday, May 2, 5:30-8:30pm

Simone Wilson
May 2-June 28, 2008; Opening: Friday, May 2, 5:30-8:30pm

Some Assembly Required
Eric Knoche
May 2-June 28, 2008; Opening: Friday, May 2, 5:30-8:30pm

On Saturday, Dec. 8, in his River District Studio, artist Jonas Gerard held his second live performance painting auction in support of the Asheville Area Arts Council. With the support of the audience, we raised $1600 to support the AAAC Arts-in-Education Residency program. This amount will put at least one week-long residency with an AAAC Teaching Artist in a school, and could potentially fund up to three residencies.

The Asheville Area Arts Council awards more than $60,000 each year in grants to artists, schools, and community organizations. $10,000 of that total supports artist residencies in Asheville City and Buncombe County private, charter and public schools, professional development in the arts for teachers, teacher-driven arts lessons, and after-school artist residencies. Between 5,000 and 10,000 K-12 students and teachers every year are touched by AAAC funded arts-in-education programming and opportunities.

JB Adams and Associates, Inc. also generously contributed to the Asheville AAAC Arts-in-Education Residency program in support of Jonas Gerard�s donation.

"We are extremely grateful for this community support and look forward to awarding these residencies to Asheville City and Buncombe County schools," said Susanne Hackett, AAAC Programs Director.

For more information about Jonas Gerard.

Sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council, the Teaching Artist Boot Camp was developed by the AAAC and university and teaching artist partners to work with WNC artists or teaching artists with little to no experience in education to:

• Understand and develop lesson plans
• Develop a basic understanding of education and the standards
• Walk away with a written and visual residency plan in place

The ultimate goal for the AAAC is to grow and diversify our pool of regional teaching artist talent. The TABC will be held June 3-6, 2008 in Asheville , NC. For more information and to apply to participate in the TABC, please see the Submission Guidelines

The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote a great article on the KidsTix program that was published on Monday, November 26, 2007. The article stated that the AAAC receives $25,000 each year from an anonymous donor to support the KidsTix program. The AAAC has received $25,000 over the last five years of the program. We receive about $5000 annually to support the purchase of tickets to cultural performances for kids and their mentors.

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FoAMnet, Future of Asheville Music Network presents a showcase to highlight the pairing of local musicians and filmmakers, taking place on Feb. 6, 2008 from 6-10 p.m. at the Cinebarre at Biltmore Square Mall.

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The Asheville Area Arts Council will be open from Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.