Foundation Studios

Level up your D&D game with jewelry from and a goblet from Kristin Hendrix Pottery 🐉🎲

It’s Third Thursday! Open studio & open mic tonight from 5-8ish pm ✍️🎤 Our featured artist is still YOU so we need to see what you got, right on the wall! 💙

With River Arts District Artists, Asheville – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

This set of “4 Detectives Looking at You” in a pop of summer colors by was 🔴 Sold last night!

Very excited to play music tonight at Foundation Studios for their 5 year anniversary party. Come out to support local art and music, we start at 6PM!

FYI: Our door will be locked from 5-6 pm to prepare for the party!! 🎉 Then the celebration commences from 6-9 pm with art you can see, hear, touch, smell, and even taste 💙

If you come by in the afternoon you’ll see Jennifer Sharkey demonstrating her dot mandala painting technique! Scroll to see her piece that’s featured in the SENSES show.

We have BRAND NEW custom bar tables by Reid Dawson and Craig Oldre so you can sit and enjoy your beverages as well as the music this evening!

The Featured Artist for tonight is YOU! Sennyo is taking her usual Art & Chill table to the wall—she’ll provide the supplies, and you’ll provide the creation! Show us your skills or leave a message right on our wall 🎨

Hi 👋 Thanks for being here! In honor of Foundation Studios turning 5 years old, allow us to reintroduce ourselves so we can pin it to the top of our page 📌

We’re an 8,000 square foot community art center on in the featuring:

💙 15 studios where artists work, and/or display their art in their own gallery space
💙 Around 75 display walls and booths with you guessed it- more art!
💙 A Flex Space that’s used for rotating gallery showcases with resident and guest artists, as well as..
💙 Classes! Learn mosaics, jewelry making, painting techniques, and more with talented and friendly instructors!
💙 And Clubs! Develop a consistent sketchbook habit or practice your figure drawing.
💙 Beer & wine bar featuring many local and regional beverages
💙 Live music—our stage hosts local and regional performers across a wide range of genres
💙 Free recurring events. Our space is accessible to everyone. From our Third Thursday Open Studio & Open Mic Night to our First Friday free wine tastings, we provide ways to connect with the Asheville art community without exclusivity.
💙 & so much more! The possibilities are endless in this space and we’re so excited for the next 5 years 🍻🥂

Well this was a great way to begin the day and usher in our anniversary weekend! “Central Park at Fool Moon” by Tank-A Gabriliants is SOLD and will soon be heading back to the NYC area. It is an honor to watch Tank-A’s spirit live on through her works and to find collectors who will cherish that memory. Thank you Dupre family!!! 💙

Today is our intern Izzy Bella’s first birthday! This photo is from her first day in the gallery last fall 🐾 She wants to invite you to our party! The Second Saturday of July (*this weekend*) is also Foundation Studios’ birthday! We’re celebrating 5 years with an exploration of the 5 senses. On July 13th from 6-9 pm there will be an opening for our new SENSES showcase, live music by the Bradley Bacci Band, a food pop-up by Gourmand Asheville, a free wine tasting with our rep from Empire, a 7ft interactive sculpture on display, an Art + Chill set up for you to express your creativity, and more! 💙

Photos from past Paint + Prosecco sessions interspersed with examples of paintings you could recreate with your own twist on July 20th!

Paint + Prosecco is a fun way to relax, make friends, and practice your creative expression on a Saturday afternoon! The next session is on July 20th from 4-6 pm and the theme is Fancy Ferns 🌿 Lisa Underwood is an experienced instructor who will guide you through techniques that will help you create your choice of one of the three pictured fern paintings, while also encouraging you to make it your own! Of course we’ll pop the Prosecco 🍾 but you’re not limited to that! We have a variety of beers, wines, and non-alcoholic beverages as well.

You may want to stick around after the paint party for live music with Fresh Buzz! They deliver honey-dipped harmonies and infectious beats. The show is free, and you can buy tickets for Paint + Prosecco on our website

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This bee-autiful stained glass panel is FOR SALE!

The Great Wild Nowhere wall has been restocked!! Check out new works on metal, prints, and t-shirts from . And swipe for a sweet “Baby Boy” in the “Life Could Be A Dream” show which is in its last week!

We’re about to transition the space into a display and exploration of the 5 Senses for our 5 year anniversary 🖐️ The party is ONE WEEK AWAY!!! We can’t wait for you all to see new artwork, touch the interactive pieces, listen to good music, and smell and taste delicious food and wine 😊

In the meantime, there’s still a few more events before then! We have live music tonight with Willow Room, live music on Sunday afternoon with Myron Hyman, and the first Costume Figure Drawing session on Thursday. Other than that, we’ll be working hard all week to put together an incredible experience for all of you who have supported Foundation Studios over the last 5 years!!!!! 💙

The FIRST Costume Figure Drawing session is coming up on July 11th! ✍️

As an alternative to n**e figure drawing, participants will create illustrations of models in costume. Foundation Studios resident artists Andrew Beck and Charles J. Paine III aim to provide a unique experience to the Asheville art community that is open to all ages and skill levels. The inaugural session will be held on Thursday, July 11th from 6-8 pm with modeling as Lady Gaga! Recurring classes will happen on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, with different themes and costumes at each session!

Tickets are $16 and can be purchased in advance on our website or at the bar that night.

Happy 4th!!!! 🎆 We’re open until 6 pm as usual today 💙🤍❤️

JULY 6th: After the Intro to Mosaics class this Saturday morning (see previous post), Neal Hart will be demonstrating his intricate ink drawing process at the Studios from 1-6 pm!

We’ll be open late and end the evening with live music by ! Formed as a side quest from members of other Asheville touring groups (Buddhagraph Spaceship, Jokers Trade, Early Worm, Jeb Rogers Band, etc…) is one of the hottest new quintets to hit the Appalachian Music Scene. Their musicality, energy, and catchy hooks will have you dancing & singing along before you even know it 🎶

And of course next Saturday is our big 5 Year Anniversary Party!!! 🎉 Live music, food vendor, free wine tasting, interactive art, and more await on July 13th 💙

Intro to Mosaics with is happening this Saturday, July 6th from 10 am-1 pm! Create at least 2 mosaic coasters or 1 trivet for your home using stained glass tiles for color blocking. You’ll learn all about substrates, adhesives, and grouts used in mosaic work. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased on our website, over the phone, or in person by Friday evening!

TONIGHT🧶Craft Night at the Movies 🎥
Join Grail Moviehouse this evening, Tue, 7/2 at 7pm for a special screening of THELMA…crafts welcome!
Hosted by our neighbors from Foundation Studios , Jordan Moodie and Sennyo Senn.
The screening will be presented with walk-in lights on and open captions.
Please only self contained lap projects (no 🎨 or glitter ✨)!
For info and 🎟️:
https://www.grailmoviehouse.com/coming-soon-blog/thelma-craftnight

We’re hosting Craft Night at the movies with our neighbors at Grail Moviehouse tomorrow, Tuesday July 2nd at 7 pm!!! 🍿

Tonight! 🦀🎂🎶💫

We’re celebrating lots of resident artists, employees, and our canine intern Izzy 😋 And maybe you too!!

Amy Massey is the most recent studio artist to join the space, taking up residence in Studio #16! Visit her room just off the Flex Space to see her two current collections.

The Portals and Passages collection consists of delicate, ethereal vignettes painted in watercolor and gouache. These works illustrate the push and pull of emotion, using negative space to suspend fluid forms while seeking both tension and harmony.

Dimensions of Intimacy is a series of surreal, dreamlike landscapes interwoven with an intricate layering of geometric patterning, done in acrylics. The goal of this body of work is to explore the sensations we glean from different environments and to explore the symbolism of space.

It’s a (Harry) Hoppe place in Studio #2 😁