Arts & Culture Articles
Both professional and community theater keep playgoers entertained while music festivals, Chamber music and bluegrass music can also be enjoyed year-round. Highlands NC and Cashiers NC has always attracted visual artists thanks to the luxuriant setting,
and the number of fine art galleries encourage collectors to make frequent forays. There are writers’ groups, lectures and classes of all types. Search below to get your creativity fix.
The Bascom at 40
Celebrating four decades of creativity, The Bascom honors its roots while inspiring the Plateau’s future.
Cut, Craft, and Cookie
CLE invites all ages to celebrate the season with festive decoupage on December 3 and a joyful cookie exchange on December 17.
ArtSpace in Highlands
ArtSpace transforms church walls into a seasonal gallery, welcoming heartfelt works that celebrate creativity.
Rock the Plateau
Rock the Plateau brings acclaimed singer-songwriters to Highlands, proving that even a small town can make a mighty sound.
Live from Bedford Falls
Highlands Cashiers Players celebrate 30 years with a free 1940s-style radio performance of It’s a Wonderful Life.
The Art of Gratitude
The Bascom reflects on a year of creative outreach, expressing gratitude to the donors, artists, and community members who make its mission of accessible, empowering art possible.
Arts & Culture Listings
Around Back At Rocky’s Place
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Around Back At Rocky’s Place
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Around Back at Rocky’s Place is one of North Georgia’s largest folk art galleries featuring one of a kind artwork from hundreds of Southern artists. Our gallery boasts thousands of […]
Barbara Jamison Fine Art
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Barbara Jamison Fine Art
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After a 20-year career as a successful senior marketing executive in New York, Rome, and London, Barbara Jamison retired, switching left brain to right. Always fascinated with Art, she joyfully leapt into Sculpture and […]
Cath Connolly Hudson
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Cath Connolly Hudson
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Artist Statement I’m an artist based in the mountain community of Highlands, NC. Every day I’m grateful for the beauty that surrounds me and inspires me to create. I’ve painted […]
Diane McPhail
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Diane McPhail
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Diane C. McPhail is an artist, therapist, minister, and acclaimed author of Follow the Stars Home, The Abolitionist’s Daughter, and The Seamstress of New Orleans, which was a finalist for […]
Full House Gallery
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Full House Gallery
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Art Gallery featuring local and regional artists. High end furniture consignment and new home decor.
Highlands Performing Arts Center
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Highlands Performing Arts Center
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The ML Performing Arts Center Mission Statement To Provide our community with the benefits of a first class, low cost facility for local 501c3 organizations and to promote and encourage the […]
Highlands-Cashiers Community Players
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Highlands-Cashiers Community Players
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The mission of the Highlands Cashiers players is to elevate the cultural environment of Highlands and its environs by offering first rate theatrical productions; to seek out and develop the […]
Jeanie Edwards Fine Art
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Jeanie Edwards Fine Art
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Jeanie Edwards Fine Art, the premier art gallery located in the heart of downtown Highlands, North Carolina. We are pleased to present for your consideration, 20 of the regions top […]
Katherine McClure
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Katherine McClure
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Bio: Born in Savannah, on the coast of Georgia, I’ve spent most of my life in Atlanta, GA and live here now with my husband, children and a menagerie of […]
Leslie Jeffrey
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Leslie Jeffrey
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Contemporary fine artist creating large abstract compositions. Artist Statement I was introduced to art at a young age by my grandmother, an accomplished oil painter. I have painted all my […]
