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Celebrate Art + Automobile | The Bascom
Issue: 2020/11 - November
The Highlands Motoring Festival and The Bascom have joined forces to create an exciting festival and calendar of art events for next year.
The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts and the Highlands Motoring Festival Committee have unveiled Celebrate Art + Automobile, their collaboration on a unique, and fascinating, series of events for the 2021 season. The cornerstones of this celebration are a special exhibition at the Bascom from May 11 – August 21, and the Highlands Motoring Festival June 10 – 13, 2021.
The special exhibition in the Bascom’s Bunzl Gallery, FreeWheeling – the Allure of the Automobile in Contemporary Art, will feature works of renowned international automotive artists, including canvas, paper, and sculpture. Additionally, there will be a rotating display of extremely rare and special automobiles in the Gallery that are a testament to the concept of the automobile itself as art.
Throughout the exhibition period, the Bascom will be offering a number of related displays and activities, some of which are interactive. A few examples of these include Artist/Curator Discussions, Submitted Automobile Photography Presentation, Model Car Display, and Educational S.T.E.A.M. Initiatives. Other public programming will be announced as it is developed.
On Saturday, June 12, the fourteenth annual Highlands Motoring Festival features Cars in the Park, a juried display of approximately 100 specially selected automobiles from around the world, representing a diversity of styles and concepts from the earliest days of the automobile through 1989. The theme for 2021 is Pure Bloods d’Italia, featuring grand marques such as Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini. Additional classics expected on the show field include Porsche, Jaguar, BMW, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Packard, and others.
Other activities of the Motoring Festival include One Lap of the Mountains (two days of drives on the exciting mountain roads of Western North Carolina), evening social events, presentations and discussions by renowned automotive experts, a parade of classic automobiles, and High Octane, a casual car show open to any interesting automobile.
For more information, contact Highlands Motoring Festival Co-Chair Mark Chmar, Co-Chair at [email protected], highlandsmotoringfestival.com, or call (703) 919-1793; or Zach Rogers, Bascom Exhibitions Manager, at [email protected], or call (828) 787-2878.
