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Painting With the Master: Artist Cynthia Kinard

Issue: 2020/12 - December | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Artist Cynthia Kinard’s transcendent works are testament to a lifetime of study and relentless refinement.

Art League’s Small Works Show

Issue: 2020/10 - October | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Time finally ran out. The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers held open the hope that it could still sponsor the annual Fall Colors Fine Art Show the third weekend of October […]

At this time of the year, you’d normally find members of the Art League at the Highlands Rec Park on Thursday afternoons, volunteering for the Art League’s Children’s Summer Art Camp. This free eight-week program, started by the League in 2007 as a gift to area children, until now has been offered every summer since. This year, of course, is different, and for the first time since its inception, there is no ALHC Children’s Summer Art Camp, another casualty of the global virus. We all look forward to the camp’s resumption next year. The camp is a cooperative effort between the Art League that supplies the staff and materials and the Rec Park that provides the venue. Each week, the attendees work on individual art projects that the children take home, and also complete a group project presented to the Recreation Park at camp’s end. You’ll see those created over the years adorning the walls of the Civic Center lobby. The Art League is fortunate to count among its members Bonnie Abbott, who agreed to become the instructor for part of 2018 and the entire 2019 camp. Bonnie earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from James Madison University, and her Masters in Art Education from George Washington University. During her 40-year career, she has taught ages four to 90. She is patently qualified to teach youngsters, with her patient approach to instruction that holds their attention. Bonnie encourages the children to express their own personalities with their creations. Art League volunteers for the 2019 camp were Susan Bauknight, Zach Claxton, Jan DeJong, Missy McIver and Lisa Richards, who all look forward to a happier 2021. For more information about the Art League and its activities, visit website at artleagueofhighlands-cashiers.com. by Zach Claxton, Highlands-Cashiers Art League

Revamping Art Camp

Issue: 2020/08 – August | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

At this time of the year, you’d normally find members of the Art League at the Highlands Rec Park on Thursday afternoons, volunteering for the Art League’s Children’s Summer Art […]

Art League’s Hopeful October

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

In 1785, Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, wrote “To a Mouse.” A line from that poem, put into modern English, suggests that the best laid plans of mice and men […]

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Art League’s Definite Maybe

Issue: 2020/06 - June | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

To say that 2020 has been a strange year so far hardly seems worth the effort. Like most Plateau dwellers, we at the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers looked forward […]

The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers

Issue: 2020/05 - May | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers kicks off its 2020 season at 4:30 P.M., May 18, in The Bascom atrium with a wine reception. At 5:00 P.M., botanical artist Carol Misner […]

Art League’s 40th Anniversary

Issue: 2020/03 - March | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

With only a few weeks of winter left, spring is not far away, and another busy season for the Art League will kick off next month. On July 24, […]

Exciting Year for the League

Issue: 2020/01 - Winter | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

While the Art League’s 2019 season has ended, behind the scenes its board is busy with plans for 2020. Changes are coming that we are confident will lead to continued […]

Art League’s Thanks to The Bascom

Issue: 2019/12 - December | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts has had a major impact on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau’s art community. The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers is especially grateful for the partnership […]

Budding Local Artists

Issue: 2019/11 - November | by Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

In 2007, as a gift to area children, the Highlands-Cashiers Art League formed what was known at the time as the Children’s Task Force. It began sponsoring a Children’s Art […]

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