Circular Solutions: CENTER Award + Grant Recipients 2021 & 2022

Gallery A and Petti/Peiser Galleries

Ella Morton, Blomstrandbreen #2, 2016Founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the not-for-profit organization CENTER supports socially and environmentally engaged lens-based projects through education, public platforms, funding, and partnerships. Image-making holds a unique power to confront audiences with uncomfortable truths, advance cultural understandings, and promote social justice. Through the advancement of artists and their work, CENTER serves to deepen public […]

June First Friday at the Turchin

All Galleries

Benjamin Erlandson, The New River, Ashe County Line, NC, 2023The Turchin Center is 20!  Celebrating two decades of excellence in exhibition, educationand outreach programming in the visual arts FREE EVENT Celebrate summer at the Turchin Center at this fun and festive event, while engaging with a variety of new exhibitions, discovering the world of the contemporary visual […]

ARTtalk – Signe Stuart: FLUX

TCVA Lecture Hall

Location: Turchin Center Lecture Hall Cost: FREESigne Stuart's beautiful exhibition, Flux, will close June 3, 2023.  Join the artist for a virtual presentation in the Turchin Center lecture hall at 5:30 as part of the June 2, 2023 First Friday events.  Beginning in the early 1960s, Signe Stuart’s professional career has now spanned more than […]

Celebrating Music in Art

Catherine J. Smith Gallery

Unknown Artist, Tyne Guitar, 2021Leonce de Doncieres, Lute Musician, 1919Celebrating Music in Art: Selections from the Artinian Music in Art Collection from the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Permanent Collection  Schaefer Center Mezzanine June 24 – August 5, 2023Dr. Artine and Teddy Artinian always had a fondness for Appalachian State University and its art programs. This exhibition represents […]

Passage / Time Pieces

Hodges, Bickers and Community Galleries

Nina Elder, WheatPassage An installation of live music by Michael Harrison with musicians Elliot Cole, Ina Filip, and Benoit Rolland. Lighting by Nina Elder In partnership with Time Pieces Drawings by Nina ElderPassage and Time Pieces are closely related but separate installations originally conceived by composer and performer Michael Harrison and artist Nina Elder. The immersive […]

Summer Exhibition Celebration

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Peter Merts, an artist with his painting in the art studio at San Quentin State Prison, 2015The Turchin Center Turns 20!  Celebrating two decades of excellence in exhibition, educationand outreach programming in the visual arts FREE EVENT Celebrate summer at the Turchin Center at this fun and festive event, while engaging with a variety of new exhibitions, […]

37th Rosen Sculpture Walk with the Juror

photo: Andrew Light, Divergent, 36th Rosen Sculpture Competition First Place Award Winner37th Rosen Sculpture Walk with the JurorThe Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition is an annual national juried competition presented by the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival. The nationally recognized program has showcased contemporary American sculpture in outdoor […]