Visitors enjoying an evening stroll downtown can stop in more than twenty-three different museums and galleries, including the Asheville Art Museum, on the first Friday of each month starting April 1st.
With a variety of special events, exhibition openings, artist talks and more, these art walks are a fantastic opportunity to see what the downtown arts community has to offer.
On First Fridays, the Asheville Art Museum offers pay-as-you-wish admission from 5:00-8:00 p.m. For the first Art Walk of the year on April 1st, the Museum will be hosting a film screening of the documentary Free Radicals starting at 5:30 p.m. The film provides a vivid and eye-opening introduction to avant-garde cinema, one of the most important yet marginalized realms of filmmaking.
Free Radicals includes rare interviews with some of the most important filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition, as well as several films in their entirety. The film will be introduced by the co-founder of Mechanical Eye Microcinema, Charlotte Taylor, and it will be followed by a Q&A session with the director, Pip Chodorov. The film’s duration is 82 minutes.
The Asheville Art Museum will continue to offer special events and pay-as-you-wish admission from 5:00–8:00 p.m. in conjunction with First Friday Art Walks through December.
To learn more, visit ashevilleart.org or downtownashevilleartdistrict.org.