Exhibitions and ongoing events

The Turchin Center announces “Sustained Ingrain,” featuring twelve artists from China, and twelve artists from North America. Diverse in its range of cultural context, creative vision, and innovative process, each artist works extensively in the enduring, wild and wonderful medium of woodcut.

Guest curated by faculty and staff in the Appalachian State University Department of Biology, High Country Herbarium, is a collaborative and interdisciplinary exhibit displaying herbarium vouchers from the I. W. Carpenter, Jr. Herbarium, with paintings and drawings, photography, music and poetry written specifically for the exhibit.

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts welcomes Hannah Cole: “My paintings are at once rooted in the unique experiences of my own life, and in conversation with the larger history of American painting.”

Each of the Turchin Center's international biennial exhibitions reveal the importance of the visual arts in bearing witness to other cultures, other places, and, often, other racial and ethnic groups not typically represented in our local communities across the Appalachian region. What unites all peoples is the fundamental instinct to tell stories.