Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Ideal for 6-12 year olds: Creative art-making activities highlighting a variety of artists and methods.

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric Devrie will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

1st & 3rd Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:30 am | Ideal for preschool-aged children & an adult: Process-based art activities plus storytime.

Finding the extraordinary in nature’s ordinary

Georgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast.

Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Ideal for 6-12 year olds: Creative art-making activities highlighting a variety of artists and methods.

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric Devrie will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

We are constantly hearing how powerful our brain is. But we’re not being given the necessary knowledge about how to easily tap into our brain’s potential. In “Use Your Brain - For a Change” you’ll learn intriguing information about how your brain actually works. And learn how art can help you "change your mind!"

Learn to paint in a relaxed atmosphere, inspired by Le Chemin a travers les champs by Jean Metzinger. Each participant goes home with a finished work of art. All materials, including canvases, acrylic paint, brushes, and aprons, are provided. Our trained instructor will lead you step-by-step.
Wine, beer, and light snacks are complimentary.

Join us on your mat to explore elements of current works on exhibit as we move through an all-levels yoga class. We'll meet in the community room with a slide show featuring different works each week. Classes will be led by Suzie Taylor, a recent graduate of the BRAHM docent program + certified yoga teacher. With over two decades of yoga training, Suzie is passionate about alignment both on + off our mats.

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones.

Ready to start a new project? Why not try some winter weather items for folks heavily affected by the storm?

Take time for yourself for a special series we are calling Lunch & Learn: A Slow Art Experience. 

Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Ideal for 6-12 year olds: Creative art-making activities highlighting a variety of artists and methods.

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric Devrie will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

1st & 3rd Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:30 am | Ideal for preschool-aged children & an adult: Process-based art activities plus storytime.

In this program you'll get a chance to meet a few of the Blue Ridge Conservancy team who are working to protect the places we love. We'll get updates on some of their major projects like the Middle Fork Greenway, Northern Peaks State Trail, The Knob Boulders and Nature Preserve, and the BRC Conservation Campus. 

Join us to celebrate the opening of our next exhibition, ᏔᎷᏥ ᏕᎬᏍᎬ ᎣᎩᎲᎢ Weaving our Heritage: Cherokee Baskets. The opening reception will begin in the BRAHM community meeting room for refreshments and a conversation with exhibition curator, Anna Fareillo. The framing conversation will discuss the traditions and innovations of Cherokee baskets. As well as how the artist's work is a reflection of economic, environmental, and cultural influences. 

Join one of BRAHM's docents for a special kind of tour that narrows your field of view to one exhibition for an hour. Learn about the artists, the creation of works, and the inside story of the exhibit. 

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric Devrie will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Ideal for 6-12 year olds: Creative art-making activities highlighting a variety of artists and methods.

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric Devrie will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

Dr. Houck Medford, Founder and CEO Emeritus of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation will discuss how the Parkway evolved as a “ten league canvas painted with a comets tail” to become  “America’s Favorite Journey.”

BRAHM invites performers to respond to our exhibitions in a series we’re naming Called to Response. This month we welcome singer-songwriter Noan Partly to respond to Field Studies. This program is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Bryant and Nancy Hanley Foundation.

Join us on your mat to explore elements of current works on exhibit as we move through an all-levels yoga class. We'll meet in the community room with a slide show featuring different works each week. Classes will be led by Suzie Taylor, a recent graduate of the BRAHM docent program + certified yoga teacher. With over two decades of yoga training, Suzie is passionate about alignment both on + off our mats.

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones.

Ready to start a new project? Why not try some winter weather items for folks heavily affected by the storm?

This cocktail with the curator will feature two exhibitions: Barbara Grennell: Mountain Tapestries and Take-Up: Intergeneration Textiles & Weaving Community in Watauga County. Patrons can expect one part gallery tour, two parts conversation, and a splash of cocktail party. This event is limited to 20 people.

Learn about Blowing Rock’s natural history and a bit of botany, as you create a life-size paper model of North Carolina’s state official state wildflower, the Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii). All materials and tools will be provided, and at the end of this three-hour workshop, you will take home your creation in a vase, ready for display. 

Take time for yourself for a special series we are calling Lunch & Learn: A Slow Art Experience. 

Learn to paint in a relaxed atmosphere, inspired by The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat. Each participant goes home with a finished work of art. All materials, including canvases, acrylic paint, brushes, and aprons, are provided. Our trained instructor will lead you step-by-step.
Wine, beer, and light snacks are complimentary.

In this talk, Elizabeth Chew will consider how art shaped Americans' perceptions of the American Revolution. Works of art created during and after the war enabled Americans (first as colonists, then as citizens of a new country) to picture the stories and heroes of the fight for independence. Furthermore, works by artists Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, and others provided Americans with a shared origin story for their new nation. 

Join one of BRAHM's docents for a special kind of tour that narrows your field of view to one exhibition for an hour. Learn about the artists, the creation of works, and the inside story of the exhibit. 

Art allows humans to imagine people and places they’ve met or visited, but that imagining is always mediated by the artist and their own perspective. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Americans used visual art to imagine North American environments and their place within those landscapes.

Composer Roger Zare responds to the Horizon Line exhibition with a concert of his original compositions. Zare will be joined by musicians from the Hayes School of Music and clarinetist Lucas Gianini, who will perform works inspired by landscapes near and far.

Join us for a one of a kind poetic experience when renowned writer Joseph Bathanti read selections from his work that respond to the exhibition, Field Studies: Ways of Knowing Place in Southern Appalachia. This will be one of a kind because the reading will take place in the exhibition, space is limited so place reserve in advance!

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones.

Ready to start a new project? Why not try some winter weather items for folks heavily affected by the storm?

Join App State’s Mark Coltrain for an exploration of the Appalachian Oral History Project, including audio excerpts of interviews. He will lead a lively discussion about why oral histories are an important way to document our families’ and community’s stories, and how we can all participate in this work. 

Learn some of Blowing Rock’s natural history and a bit of botany, as you create a life-size paper model of the Big-Head Aster (Symphyotrichum grandiflorum), North Carolina’s wildflower of the year. All materials and tools will be provided, and at the end of this three-hour workshop, you will take home your creation, ready for display, and seeds so you can try your hand at growing your own wildflowers. 

Join us on your mat to explore elements of current works on exhibit as we move through an all-levels yoga class. We'll meet in the community room with a slide show featuring different works each week. Classes will be led by Suzie Taylor, a recent graduate of the BRAHM docent program + certified yoga teacher. With over two decades of yoga training, Suzie is passionate about alignment both on + off our mats.

Take time for yourself for a special series we are calling Lunch & Learn: A Slow Art Experience. 

Join App State’s Dr. Howard S. Neufeld for an exciting look at how trees move water hundreds of feet up their trunks and how this may be affected by climate change. 

This cocktail with the curator will focus on the exhibition, Field Studies. Patrons can expect one part gallery tour, two parts conversation, and a splash of cocktail party.

The Blowing Rock Plein Air Festival is a four-day, open-enrollment plein air painting event. It takes place in the beautiful mountainous area surrounding the town of Blowing Rock in western North Carolina, from Tuesday, September 15, to Saturday, September 19, 2026. 

Join one of BRAHM's docents for a special kind of tour that narrows your field of view to one exhibition for an hour. Learn about the artists, the creation of works, and the inside story of the exhibit. 

Local artist Wes Waugh will host an art-based activity at the Middle Fork Greenway in
Blowing Rock, focusing on simplified value sketching. Participants can choose a subject
nearby and learn both techniques and the importance of relaxed, creative exploration.
Drawing from thirty years as a counselor and watercolor artist, Wes highlights that
creativity at any age or skill level fosters well-being and peace in a changing world.

Bring your own supplies and projects to work on and workshop with the group! Bring friends or make new ones.

Ready to start a new project? Why not try some winter weather items for folks heavily affected by the storm?

The film is called "A Dream for the Future." Through sweeping visuals and personal stories, A "Dream for the Future" weaves together Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina’s rich history, ongoing work, and vision for the future. This documentary film showcases the landscapes they protect, the partnerships they build, and the community that makes it all possible.

Join us on your mat to explore elements of current works on exhibit as we move through an all-levels yoga class. We'll meet in the community room with a slide show featuring different works each week. Classes will be led by Suzie Taylor, a recent graduate of the BRAHM docent program + certified yoga teacher. With over two decades of yoga training, Suzie is passionate about alignment both on + off our mats.

Take time for yourself for a special series we are calling Lunch & Learn: A Slow Art Experience. 

Join one of BRAHM's docents for a special kind of tour that narrows your field of view to one exhibition for an hour. Learn about the artists, the creation of works, and the inside story of the exhibit.