Arts & Culture Articles

Both professional and community theater keep playgoers entertained while music festivals, Chamber music and bluegrass music can also be enjoyed year-round. Highlands NC and Cashiers NC has always attracted visual artists thanks to the luxuriant setting,
and the number of fine art galleries encourage collectors to make frequent forays. There are writers’ groups, lectures and classes of all types. Search below to get your creativity fix.

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Charlotte Muir Appointed Development Director at Highlands Performing Arts Center

Issue: Whats News by: Highlands Performing Arts Center

Highlands Performing Arts Center (PAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Charlotte Muir as Development Director, effective immediately. Muir brings over 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience, along with a strong track record in fundraising, board relations, and strategic growth.

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The Goddess of Folk Art

Issue: July 2025 by: Donna Rhodes

The exuberance of the art at Around Back at Rocky’s Place Folk Art Gallery
(3631 Georgia Highway 53 East in Dawsonville, Georgia) will not be contained.

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A Celebration of Music and Arts

Issue: July 2025

The 2025 Bel Canto, set for Sunday, September 7, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center, continues an extraordinary tradition that’s enraptured audiences for 33 years.

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Let’s Welcome Gray Pearson

Issue: July 2025 by: Luke Osteen

Gray Pearson is the man behind those iconic sounds animating First Presbyterian Church of Highlands.

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Two-Man Symphony

Issue: July 2025 by: Marlene Osteen

Ellie’s Groove Steel Pan Band brings a rich, mellow sound filtered through Caribbean playfulness.

The First Thing You Remember

Issue: July 2025 by: Marlene Osteen

A mother’s simple question, “What’s the first thing you remember?” sparks a deeply moving memoir shaped by love, listening, and perseverance.

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Art and Craft Show

Issue: July 2025 by: Mary Jane McCall

Back and somehow even bigger, Mountaintop Rotary’s Art & Craft Show returns to Highlands’ Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on August 23 and 24. For more information on the show, visit highlandsartshow.com or visit their Facebook page for the latest updates.

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Martinis, Mozart & More

Issue: July 2025 by: Marlene Osteen

Magic and music are brewing when the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival stages its Martinis, Mozart & More at The Orchard House at The Farm at Old Edwards, Thursday, July 24. Reservations are essential and can be made by calling (828) 526-9060. Because some evenings deserve to be as memorable as the music itself. 

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The Art of Pat Calderone

Issue: July 2025 by: Marlene Osteen

Originally from Minnesota, Pat Calderone found her Muse in the mountains. Nearly three decades on, she still finds her inspiration in the mysteries of nature.

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Around Back At Rocky’s Place

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Around Back At Rocky’s Place

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Around Back at Rocky’s Place is one of North Georgia’s largest folk art galleries featuring one of a kind artwork from hundreds of Southern artists. Our gallery boasts thousands of […]

Barbara Jamison Fine Art

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Barbara Jamison Fine Art

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After a 20-year career as a successful senior marketing executive in New York, Rome, and London, Barbara Jamison retired, switching left brain to right. Always fascinated with Art, she joyfully leapt into Sculpture and […]

Cath Connolly Hudson

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Cath Connolly Hudson

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Artist Statement I’m an artist based in the mountain community of Highlands, NC. Every day I’m grateful for the beauty that surrounds me and inspires me to create. I’ve painted […]

Diane McPhail

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Diane McPhail

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Diane C. McPhail is an artist, therapist, minister, and acclaimed author of Follow the Stars Home, The Abolitionist’s Daughter, and The Seamstress of New Orleans, which was a finalist for […]

Full House Gallery

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Full House Gallery

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Art Gallery featuring local and regional artists. High end furniture consignment and new home decor.

Highlands Performing Arts Center

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Highlands Performing Arts Center

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The ML Performing Arts Center Mission Statement To Provide our community with the benefits of a first class, low cost facility for local 501c3 organizations and to promote and encourage the […]

Highlands-Cashiers Art League

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Highlands-Cashiers Art League

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Highlands-Cashiers Community Players

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Highlands-Cashiers Community Players

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The mission of  the Highlands Cashiers players is to elevate the cultural environment of Highlands and its environs by offering first rate  theatrical productions; to seek out and develop the […]

Jeanie Edwards Fine Art

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Jeanie Edwards Fine Art

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Jeanie Edwards Fine Art, the premier art gallery located in the heart of downtown Highlands, North Carolina. We are pleased to present for your consideration, 20 of the regions top […]

Josephine’s Emporium

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Josephine’s Emporium

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Art dealer located in Cashiers, North Carolina

Katherine McClure

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Katherine McClure

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Bio: Born in Savannah, on the coast of Georgia, I’ve spent most of my life in Atlanta, GA and live here now with my husband, children and a menagerie of […]

Leslie Jeffrey

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Leslie Jeffrey

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Contemporary fine artist creating large abstract compositions. Artist Statement  I was introduced to art at a young age by my grandmother, an accomplished oil painter.  I have painted all my […]

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