Art Garden AVL

05/10/2026

05/10/2026

🎨✨ Have you met Cynthia Potter yet today?! This incredible multimedia artist is here at Art Garden RIGHT NOW offering face painting by donation until 4pm — and her gorgeous work is on display throughout the gallery! Come get your face painted, grab a mimosa, fall in love with her art, and soak up the last few hours of our Grand Reopening Weekend. 🌿💛
📍 98 North Lexington Avenue, Downtown Asheville

05/10/2026

🌿☀️ Happy Mother’s Day, Asheville — and happy FINAL day of our Grand Reopening Weekend!
What a week it has been. We are so full of gratitude for every single person who has shown up, celebrated with us, and helped us plant our roots in our new home. Today we close out GROW Weekend in the most beautiful way possible — and we have a LOT in store for you!
🌱 30% OFF ALL PLANTS — It’s our biggest plant sale of the year, and what better Mother’s Day gift than a living, breathing piece of nature? Come shop our gorgeous plant boutique and treat yourself or someone you love. 🥂 And yes — we’re serving mimosas to celebrate!
🎨 Two incredible workshops still have tickets available today — don’t miss them!
🌾 Asemic Writing & Mark-Making Using Nature Materials with the wonderful Mel Sozer — a one-hour workshop where you’ll slow down, tune in, and let nature speak through you. Using acrylic ink and brushes made from dried plants and foraged materials, you’ll explore asemic writing — a visual language without fixed words that belongs to everyone and to no one. No experience needed, just curiosity. Fair warning: acrylic ink is joyfully messy, so wear something you don’t mind staining! 🌿
🌹 Rose Ink Plant Pigment Workshop with Art Garden co-founder Annie Kyla Bennett — a two-hour workshop from 3–5pm at our studio space at 25 Carolina Lane. You’ll brew a stunning bright pink ink from rose petals, then paint and draw with your creation using fountain pens, glass pens, calligraphy brushes, and more. Additional artist-made inks — marigold, goldenrod, black walnut, avocado, and more — will be available for experimentation. Every participant leaves with fresh knowledge, their own bottle of rose ink, and all the paintings and drawings made during class. 🌸 (Need a sliding scale or work trade ticket? Email [email protected] — no one turned away for lack of funds!)
Both workshops are available to book now — head to artgardenavl.com for tickets and full details. Today is the day, Asheville. Come celebrate with us. 💛
📍 98 North Lexington Avenue, Downtown Asheville
🌐 artgardenavl.com

05/09/2026

Day 3 - 🎭 🎟️ The day we officially unveil This Faerie Stage, our cute, intimate theatre with “Same Same but Different” — a dramatic conversation between two gay men of different generations, comparing life stories, with a Freaky Friday twist. A few tickets are still available at 🔗 in bio!

Today’s play is based on stories from performers’ Mountaine and Vinny’s lives, including the exploration of what it means to be close friends. Being vulnerable with each other (in front of an audience, of course) brings them to a dynamic shift. This is a serious comedy from two funny, deep-thinking and -feeling guys, who love bringing real life, with a healthy degree of fantasy, to the stage.

The show won the “Pushing the Boundaries of Storytelling” award at Asheville Fringe Arts Festival 2025.

Saturday May 9th, 7 - 9pm
Refreshments including wine provided

Opening Act: Live Music by Derian Blane: 7pm
‘Same Same but Different’ Performance: 8pm

*This is a fundraiser for the Art Garden Theatre to support Art Garden opening back up after the loss of its past location to hurricane Helene.

05/08/2026

🌿🎨 Say it louder for the people in the back, Jina.
A garden where everything and everyone can thrive — that has always been our dream, and today, on the biggest day of our Grand Reopening Weekend, it has never felt more true. 💛
Our GROW Gala is TONIGHT — come be part of this garden and help us grow! 🌱
📍 98 North Lexington Avenue, Downtown Asheville
🌐 artgardenavl.com for details

05/08/2026

Happy Day 2! 🔵 Did you know that some of the art in our gallery survived Helene’s floodwaters + mud??! We still can’t believe it either. Come grab a piece of history. Look for the blue dots. 🔵

05/08/2026

🎉🌿 What. A. Day.
Yesterday was everything — from our media preview in the morning to a magical Gallery Preview Party last night. We are so overwhelmed with gratitude for every single person who came out to celebrate with us. This community never ceases to amaze us. 💛
But the weekend isn’t over — in fact, tonight is our BIGGEST event yet! Our GROW Gala fundraiser is happening TONIGHT (6-9), and we need you there! Come support Art Garden as we plant our roots in our new home and keep this community thriving. 🌱🎨

Thanks again to for her musical additions to the day and for City Council-members & for coming thru to wish us well on this new beginning!

Tonight we’ll be joined by guitar virtuoso along with more delicious bites, bevs, and of course tons of art ‼️

📍 98 North Lexington Avenue, Downtown Asheville
🌐 artgardenavl.com for details

05/07/2026

🌿✨ The feeling is so mutual, Jodie.
There is nothing we love more than the energy of a community coming together to create something new — and that is exactly what this new chapter of Art Garden is all about. We are thrilled to have printmaker Jodie Karr and her beautiful work as part of our new home. 🎨
If you haven’t already, come feel that energy for yourself — our Grand Reopening Weekend is happening now through Sunday at 98 North Lexington Avenue in Downtown Asheville! And don’t miss our Gallery Preview Party TONIGHT from 6–9pm! 🥂🌱

11/06/2025

🐝 Next up in our series featuring returning artists, is our fearless leader !!! 🐝
From epic narrative oil paintings, handmade botanical inks, and watercolor dreamscapes, to sculptural candle masterpieces and nature-inspired jewelry design, Annie brings a lot of creative magic to the table! We can’t wait to share all of their incredible creations with you again as re-opens this winter! 🌱
🔨 We’re deep in the process of rebuilding after destroyed our creative home & we need your support!!!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ArtGarden-FloodRelief

Thank you for all of your support! Every save, share, like, comment helps tremendously & we appreciate it all!! 💚💚💚

10/30/2025

Our fundraiser ends on Friday, and we still have $3000 before we hit our goal. $3000 until we can make the MOST of our sponsor matching donations, dollar for dollar, to $15k. And at the end of the day, these are the people we are doing it for.

Our fabulous teachers have been with us through thick and thin - we wouldn't be who we are without them. We need to hit this fundraising goal so that we can continue to provide them with THE best teaching enviroment that we can.

Bridget, Lorelle, Susan, Heather, Cindy, Robyn, Julie, Heidi, Kevin, Diana, Mary Alice, our past and present teachers, our guest instructors...THANK YOU!

There is still time to donate - visit www.310art.com and help us MEET THAT GOAL!