BZDesign:: Asheville NC, handmade home furnishings and wearables

Creating Pattern on Fabric: Block Printing
a workshop with Barbara Zaretsky

Friday & Saturday, May 14 & 15, 10 am – 4 pm
Location: The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC
For workshop details and registration visit The Bascom website.

Asheville River Arts District Studio Stroll

Sat & Sun, June 12 & 13, 10 am – 6 pm

Asheville’s River Arts District opens to the public for two days of festivities known as the Studio Stroll. This year more than 110 artists are participating—visit us in the Cotton Mill Studios.

HandMade: The Western North Carolina Craft, Architecture & Design Expo

Friday, June 25 & Saturday, June 26, 2010
10 am – 6 pm
Location: The North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmstead Way, Asheville, North Carolina

A two-day event inviting the public to join artists, architects, builders and designers to share and learn about successful collaborations between craft artists, homeowners and industry professionals.

Our team: The Room of Five Elements

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

July 16 – 19, 2009, Thursday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm, Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm
Location: Asheville Civic Center, 87 Haywood Street in downtown Asheville, admission: $7.00

BZDesign will show wearables and home furnishings in Booth #207.

Additional information about this event is available at 828-298-7928

Open House

Image, courtesy of the Highland Highlights, spring/summer 2009 newsletter.

MA—The Space Between, a show of ceramics, textiles and furniture was held at the Asheville Area Arts Council, Front Gallery.

Akira Satake • Barbara Zaretsky • Judith Duff • Brian Boggs

Images from the exhibit:

Cloth Fiber Workshop
is a textile arts learning community that offers a variety of classes and workshops for students of all experience levels. Located in Asheville, NC.

Handmade in America
Their mission is to celebrate the hand and the handmade, to nurture the creation of traditional and contemporary craft, to revere and protect our resources, and to preserve and enrich the spiritual, cultural and community life of our (Western North Carolina).

The River Arts District, located along the French Broad River, just minutes from downtown Asheville, is a community of artists committed to creating art, supporting the artists in their neighborhood and producing successful art events such as the Studio Strolls.

Southern Highland Craft Guild in 1930 in Asheville the Guild maintains the Folk Art Center and sponsors the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands.

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