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Eadweard Muybridge
Kingston upon Thames, England, 1830-1904, Kingston upon Thames, England
Animal Locomotion, Plate 620: Horse Galloping, circa 1880
Albumen print
13 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches

Value: $1,650

Eadweard Muybridge worked at the vanguard of photography in the 1870s, pioneering technological advancements in exposure time and shutter speed to make almost instantaneous photographs. Today, Muybridge is best known for his compendium Animal Locomotion:
An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. The revolutionary project began as a means to satisfy a bet: whether all four hooves of a galloping horse were ever off the ground at the same time. To achieve his photographic documentation he used 12 cameras, each hooked up to an electrical apparatus that would trip the shutters as the horse galloped past. Following the success of the experiment, Muybridge was commissioned to continue his research at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1884 to 1885 he produced over 100,000 photographs of human and animal motion.

The Asheville Art Museum has two photographic plates from Animal Locomotion, one of which is currently on view in the exhibition Shifting Perceptions. The University of Pennsylvania houses the Muybridge Collection. Plates from the portfolio are in several permanent collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Royal Academy of Arts, among others.

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Nava Lubelski
Born New York City, NY 1968
Work Makes You, 2023
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
22 x 32 inches

Value: $700

Nava Lubelski engages with a variety of materials and techniques, focusing on hybridizing notions of masculine/feminine, art/craft, and painting/sculpture. Lubelski was born and raised in New York City, but now lives and works in Asheville. She is best known for her embroidery works on canvas, which explore what the artist calls "the contradictions between the impulse to destroy and the compulsion to mend." Linens are stained and ripped, creating initial marks that she meticulously embroiders over. The artist uses the graphic look of the stain to delve into issues of female sexuality. According to the artist, there is a social symbolism in the stain, something shameful or worthy of reproach that the woman historically cleans up, hides, or discards. Lubelski has also worked with cut paper and printmaking, often referencing Wycinanki, a Slavic folk art tradition of paper cutting.

Lubelski's work has been exhibited widely at museums such as the Asheville Art Museum; the Mint Museum; the Museum of Arts & Design; the Queens Museum of Art; and the San Diego Museum of Art. She has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Lubelski received a degree in Russian Literature & History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.

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One-night stay at Casa Monica Resort & Spa
Discover Casa Monica, one of the most luxurious St. Augustine resorts with beach access. A short stroll will lead you to the gorgeous pool area, perfect for a cool swim or a midday escape in a shaded poolside cabana. Or, lose yourself seaside with exclusive access to the private Serenata Beach Club. Enjoy being surrounded by a deep sense of history, one-of-a-kind furnishings, and enough artful distractions to spark new ideas.

Two tickets to City Walks Food & Wine Tour
Florida's first foodie tour is THE BEST way to visit multiple downtown restaurants all in one afternoon! No waiting around in crowds for reservations. Our professionally licensed City Walks team arranges everything for you during this truly unique VIP experience. Tour is limited to 10 guests per day.

Three nights at Aloft Greenville Downtown
Energy flows and personalities mingle in the vibrant social scene of WXYZ bar featuring live music, signature cocktails and tasty bites. Unwind in the Re:mix lounge area or grab a healthy, gourmet snack at Re:fuel. If you feel like burning off energy, workout in the Re:charge hotel gym or take a dip in the outdoor pool. After a busy day, relax in contemporary hotel rooms, featuring plush, king-sized beds, walk-in showers, complimentary Wi-Fi, 50-inch LCD TVs, and more. Aloft Greenville Downtown offers everything you need. Dates: 3 nights before January 2025.

Two tickets to a Peace Center live show
With a variety of world-class indoor and outdoor event spaces, the Peace Center is a six-acre downtown Greenville destination offering you a diverse mix of exceptional performances, cutting-edge architecture, and historic preservation. It's the perfect place to experience thrilling live entertainment or plan your own unique celebration.

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Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya
Born Havana, Cuba 1985
Pervertida, 2023
Oil on canvas
24 Ã- 20 inches

Value: $2,000

Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya grew up in Havana, Cuba. He now lives and works in Miami, FL. His work reflects a traditional painting education, noticeable in his fluency in paint handling, color, composition and style, all of which refer to Western art before the 20th century. When he moved to the United States, he continued painting spaces shaped by architectural elements, as he had in Cuba, but, about five years ago, he began exploring his new landscape, especially lush gardens and ornate fountains. Baroque stylistic details place Moya's paintings in the company of dramatic and ornate colonial architecture, reflecting his experiences in Habana Vieja, where there are centuries on view in a single plaza. His paintings collect vestiges of a multitude of eras and all picture ways humans mediate nature.

Moya has had solo shows in Miami and Havana. He received a Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant, attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency, and attended the Whale & Star Summer Workshop with Enrique Martinez Celaya. Emerson Dorsch presented his paintings at NADA House in Governor's Island and Untitled Art Fair in 2021, and at SWAB Barcelona in 2022. Publications include CdeCuba Art Magazine, DESTIG Magazine, and The Saatchi Gallery Magazine. Moya is represented by Emerson

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Beautifully designed and decorated home, fully renovated and filled with art in Mérida, Mexico. Two bedrooms and two baths. Fully equipped kitchen and lovely dining room. Swimming pool and lush private garden. This colonial home is ideally situated for exploring the nearby art galleries, parks, historic churches, and museums but also close to the local shops, cafés, and culinary restaurants for which Mérida has become famous. Three-block walk to all the action and five-block walk to the Central Market. Valid for use from March 2025-November 15, 2025 (possibly fall 2024) based on availability.

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Gabor Peterdi
Pestújhely, Hungary 1915-2001 Stamford, Connecticut
Wings of the Ocean, 1952
Engraving and etching on paper
20 5/8 Ã- 15 5/8 inches
Edition of 200 (printed only 50)

Value: $3,800

Gabor Peterdi was a Hungarian-American painter and printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939. After arriving in the US, he enlisted in the US Army and fought in Europe during World War II. He established and directed the Graphic Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and was faculty at Hunter College and Yale University.

Peterdi explored various graphic media, but he is best known for his engravings. His technical sensitivity and skill, demonstrated in his art and in his teaching, helped generate a revival of printmaking in this country. Peterdi's art is forceful and expressive, evoking the essence of his subjects and often conveying the power of nature.

Peterdi's work is held by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among other institutions.

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Four-Night Stay at the Church Street Inn
The Church Street Inn, located in the heart of downtown Charleston and near much of the action, features luxury vacation rentals on the corner of Church and Market Streets. These two-story townhomes have fully equipped kitchens, downstairs living areas, and comfortable bedrooms with city views upstairs. Onsite amenities include valet parking, concierge services, and a relaxing courtyard. The certificate is good for a one-bedroom unit.

Gibbes Museum of Art Family Membership
One-year membership to the Gibbes Museum of Art for two adults and all children under 18. This includes North American Reciprocal Museum membership, which allows you to visit many other museums in the region and United States.

E-Gift Certificate to NICO ($100)
NICO is an upbeat oyster bar serving French cuisine carefully prepared in a wood-fired oven. With ingredients sourced from the waters of the Lowcountry and a curated selection of the country's most coveted raw oysters, French Master Chef Nico Romo offers a fresh take on seafood for Charleston's iconic Shem Creek.

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Three nights at Kimpton Hotel Arras
The Kimpton Hotel Arras greets you with laid-back luxe at every turn. The downtown location is home to Bargello, a Mediterranean restaurant, and District 42, a gathering place for craft cocktails and shareable bites with menus created by locally renowned Executive Chef Tyler Slade.

Two Season tickets to the Asheville Symphony
Offering matinee and evening performances for each concert, be inspired by classical music's greatest masterpieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Jean Sibelius alongside Asheville Symphony debuts by Jessie Montgomery, Gra?yna Bacewicz, and Kevin Puts. Featuring top-tier talent such as soloists Alexi Kenney, Joshua Roman, and Time For Three.

Gift card to Tall John's Neighborhood Tavern ($250)

Two tickets to the Asheville Community Theatre

Gift certificate to Barley's Taproom ($25)

Painting by Zander Stefani

Zander Stefani
Born Toronto, Canada 1994
Tap Dance, 2024
Acrylic, charcoal, and colored pencil on wood panel
7 Ã- 5 inches

Zander Stefani's paintings, works on paper, and murals investigate the space between abstraction and representation, exploring the interaction of humanity and nature through gestural lines and forms. Working intuitively and fluidly between control and whimsy, Stefani allows his mark-making to come from a subconscious place where the satisfaction of the act of painting takes precedence over the finished artwork. Stefani holds a BFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. He currently lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina, where several of his murals can been seen.

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Peter Milton
Born Lower Meron Township, PA 1930
Interiors II: Stolen Moments, 1986
Resist-ground etching and engraving
30 Ã- 24 inches
Edition 16/175

Value: $3,350

Peter Milton was born in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. He studied with famed graphic artists Gabor Peterdi and Josef Albers at Yale University during the 1950s. After being diagnosed with deuteranopia, his colorblindness led him to focus on black and white etchings that often display photorealistic detail. Milton combines the strange and the familiar, the past and the present in prints noted for their meticulous craftsmanship. Dreamlike, his complicated images seem to draw upon simultaneous events and memories. They often compress long periods of time into a single moment.

Milton's drawings, etchings, and engravings are in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the British Museum, among others. Two major book collections of his work have been published: The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993) and Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).

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Paul Cunningham
Born 1966
Vase, 2007
Sand-carved and acid-etched glass murrine
12 ¾ x 8 Ã- 7 inches

Value: $5,000

Paul Cunningham began his career in glass in 1986 at the Glass Eye in Seattle, Washington. He later worked in Dale Chihuly's studio as one of the lead gaffers. While working with Chihuly, he began a collaborative relationship with Benjamin Moore, founder of B.M.I. studios. Between these two key relationships, and his experience studying at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Pilchuck Glass School, Cunningham learned from many great glass artists including Lino Tagliapietra, Dan Dailey, Dante Marioni, Preston Singletary, and Robbie Miller. Studying with all of these distinguished artists provided him with a unique opportunity to gain a broad base of technical skills from which to develop his own artistic practice.
From 2002-2008, he established and managed Cunningham Glass hot shop. This space was unique in that it offered shared studio time and materials on an hourly basis with artists from across the Northwest. While choosing to close the studio to focus on collaborative projects in the Greater Seattle Area in 2008, Cunningham has never stopped creating and showing his glass across the United States. He continues to teach technique and concept design throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe and maintained a working relationship with Chihuly in both on-staff and consultative roles.

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The Grand Cayman Experience includes a one-week stay at Harbour Heights Caribbean colors and perfect location with all the comforts of home. Be our guest at Harbour Heights, a two-bedroom, two-bath townhouse, and enjoy the most coveted part of the world-famous Seven Mile Beach. Spend your days basking in the sun or strolling along an endless ribbon of powder-soft sand. Never feel crowded or rushed on our broad expanse of beachfront. Relax under our thatched cabanas or our palm trees. Enjoy the clear, aquamarine waters, pool, and our warm Cayman Island hospitality. You will feel like you have had a real Caribbean vacation with soft breezes, beautiful sea, and lovely condos. Dates as available.

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Red Grooms
Born Nashville, TN 1937
Red Bud Diner, 1994
Color lithograph on paper
24 Ã- 62 ½ inches
Printer's Proof 5/5
Publisher: Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO

Value: $6,250

Red Grooms is best known for extending pop art into life-size environmental constructions. A Texas rodeo, a slice of downtown Chicago, and a New York subway car are among his large-scale "sculpto-pictoramas," peopled with cartoon-like characters. Born Charles Rogers Grooms in Nashville, Tennessee, the red-headed artist Red Grooms attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, and the Hans Hofmann School on Cape Cod.

His work can be found in over 40 public institutions, including: the Asheville Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Nagoya City Art Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Moderna Museet; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

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Will Barnet
Born Beverly, MA 1911-2012, New York City, NY
Aurora (purple), 1977
Serigraph on paper
16 ½ Ã- 40 inches

Value: $9,500

After studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Art Students League of New York, Barnet became an avid printmaker between 1932 and 1942, using the medium to capture the economic and social despair of the Great Depression. He was a member of the Graphic Art Division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and printed lithographs for Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.

Barnet is known for his bright, emotive colors and cubist-inspired forms. These abstractions attest to his careful study of the great modern artists such as Matisse, Picasso, and Léger. Throughout the fifties and into the early sixties, Barnet painted abstract compositions, moving from his earlier figural work to cityscape and landscape painting. In the early sixties, the figure reappeared as the primary subject, and by the seventies, he joined his interest in figurative and landscape painting in works that combined the female form with organic imagery of forest, sky, and sea.

Barnet's works are in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

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Two nights at the Old Marshall Jail
Part art hotel, part museum exhibit, and part historic preservation, guests can enjoy modern amenities while traveling through time.

Two spa packages at the Spa at Capitola Mill
A beautiful spa in a rehabbed mill building on the French Broad River, each package for two includes a 90-minute Boiler House Sauna, a 45-minute Himalayan Salt Room session, and two De La Terra Skincare Be Mistified Herbal Must kits with Rescue Teas.

Dinner and studio tour
Enjoy dinner at the Star Diner, hosted by ceramic artist Rob Pulleyn, and a tour of Josh Copus's ceramic studio and other studios in the area, organized by Rob Pulleyn.

Little Worlds (2024) photography book by Rob Amberg.

Photograph by Rob Amberg

Rob Amberg
Born Washington, DC 1947
Latino farmworkers hanging tobacco, Upper Brush Creek, 1993 from the Little Worlds series, 1993 (printed 2024)
Archival pigment print
13 Ã- 19 inches

Rob Amberg is a North Carolina photographer, folklorist, and chronicler whose work focuses primarily on the social life and customs of the rural South, especially in the mountains of his home state of North Carolina. Amberg's masterful documentary photography is well-represented in the Asheville Art Museum's Collection, and several of his artworks are currently on view in the exhibition Shifting Perceptions. Amberg's photographs and texts have been exhibited and published nationally and internationally in journals, magazines, galleries, and museums. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from numerous organizations, including: the National Endowment for the Humanities; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; the Center for Documentary Studies; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Bill Scott
Born Bryn Mawr, PA 1956
I Work Like a Gardner, 2019
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
12 Ã- 16 inches

Value: $4,900

An expert colorist, Scott draws from nature and his own imagination, making paintings that are at once abstract and representational. Although his canvases overflow with lush renderings of flora and fauna, he has little interest in copying directly from nature. Instead, each painting is an offering of a perfect window view, an idealized garden, or a feeling evoked by the final days of a season. While color remains at the heart of Scott's art making, his recent paintings announce a return to a darker ground. While many of the new paintings contain his signature layering of blocks of color, they assert a mature soulfulness in their complexity and uplifting tones.

Scott has exhibited widely over the past three decades at museums that include Hollins University; National Academy Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Swarthmore College; and the University of Delaware. Major public collections holding Scott's work include the Asheville Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Delaware Art Museum; the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Woodmere Art Museum. In 2006, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni award from the Pennsylvania Academy.

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Cara Romero
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
Born 1977, Inglewood, CA
Arla Lucia, 2020
Photogravure on BFK Rives paper
26 Ã- 18 inches
Printer: Jack Lemon
Publisher: Landfall Press Inc.

Value: $2,350

Cara Romero is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi Reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero's identity informs her work, a blend of fine art and editorial photography shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective. Employing contemporary photography techniques, she depicts the modernity of Native peoples illuminating Indigenous worldviews and aspects of supernaturalism in everyday life.

Romero's photography is represented in the Asheville Art Museum's collection and is currently on view in the exhibition Shifting Perceptions. Her work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

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Four-night stay at Cloud Nine
Escape for four nights to Cloud Nine, a small, rustic cabin in Little Switzerland, surrounded by rhododendrons and mountain laurels. Start the morning with coffee on the deck, and then venture into Little Switzerland or head to Penland School of Craft (15 minutes away) or Toe River Arts (galleries in Spruce Pine and Burnsville). If you're feeling restless, head to Roan Mountain, famous for its Catawba rhododendron and balsam forest. After a long day, relax back at Cloud Nine, and listen to the warblers as you stroll through the Japanese Garden.

Demitasse set by Cynthia Bringle

Cynthia Bringle
Born Memphis, TN 1939
Set of four demitasses and saucers, circa 1985
Glazed stoneware
Dimensions variable

Cynthia Bringle is a prolific studio potter with close ties to the Penland School of Craft, where she has taught and mentored thousands of students. In honor of her contributions to the field, she was named a North Carolina Living Treasure, and is included in the Asheville Art Museum's Collection.

Vitreograph by Harvey K. Littleton

Harvey K. Littleton
Corning, NY 1922-2013 Spruce Pine, NC
Cancelled, 1988
Four-color intaglio print from glass plate on Arches paper
41 Ã- 29 inches
Artist Proof
Printer: Judith O'Rourke
Publisher: Littleton Studios

In 1974, Harvey K. Littleton developed a process for using glass to create prints on paper. Littleton invited a wide circle of artists working in a variety of media-including glass, ceramics, and painting-to his studio in Spruce Pine, NC, to create prints using the vitreographic process that he developed, wherein an image is sandblasted, etched, or ground into a glass plate and then inked and printed on paper.

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Shauna Fahley
Supple, 2023
Ceramics and glaze
13 Ã- 5 ½ Ã- 9 ½ inches

Estimate: $1,600

Shauna Fahley has dedicated her practice to making large-scale clay horses, noting that both are foundational to humankind's development. Her primary aim is, she writes, "to reconfigure the equine icon as a vehicle for understanding empathy beyond ourselves." Fahley's sculptures critique the legacy of horses' objectification in Western Art, presenting an alternative vision. Many of her sculptures eschew the rider, focusing solely on the horse. They are the collective image of horses throughout time, a modern equine monument. And yet, some works reveal that the best horse-human interactions shed hierarchy in favor of an expansion of two separate beings into one.

Fahley has an MFA from Alfred University in Alfred and a BFA from The University of Washington in Seattle. She received many grants, scholarships, and awards toward her university education. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Canton Museum of Art, and the Young Sculptors Competition at Miami University in Oxford, OH. She was Artist in Residence at the Sculpture Space, New York City, the Archie Bray Foundation, and the PSZ Clay Center.