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Community Day 2024!
Written By: Billy Love, The Bascom | Issue: June 2024
If you’re a full-time Plateau person, a part-time resident, heck, even if you’re just passing through, consider this an invitation to The Bascom’s Community Day 2024, set for 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. Saturday, July 6.
Community Day 2024 is coming up on Saturday July 6! For over a decade, The Bascom has welcomed the surrounding communities and visitors to the Plateau to join us for a day of hands-on artmaking for children and families, artist demonstrations, storytelling, fresh popcorn and more! This is a free event and open to the public.
This year’s event will host some exciting activities in partnership with our friends in the community. The Highlands-Cashiers Hospital will be bringing their Teddy Bear Clinic with a fun photo booth to The Bascom Terrace, the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust will be hosting a conservation-centered interactive booth, the Jackson County Green Energy Park from Dillsboro, North Carolina, will be providing glass blowing demonstrations with their mobile glass forge, the Western North Carolina Woodturners will be making spinning tops for kids, and the Asheville Printmakers will be providing interactive printmaking demonstrations.
The Bascom will be hosting a re-dedication of the Will Henry Stevens Bridge at 10:00 A.M. before the Community Day activities begin, so please join us in celebrating recently completed repairs to the bridge.
Three exciting new exhibitions will be on display in the galleries, including Glass Pioneers: Western North Carolina and the Studio Glass Movement, Press On! with works by the Asheville Printmakers, and Fragmented Reality; an innovative presentation of photographic works by Erik Mace.
As always, the retail shop has beautiful handmade work from local and regional artists.
The Bascom would like to thank our Community Day sponsor for 2024, the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. We are pleased to partner with such an important community resource that believes in the visual arts as a catalyst for community well-being.
The fun happens from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on The Bascom campus at 323 Franklin Road in Highlands.
