Programs & Events

Experience Art & Discover History through our unique programming, educational offerings, and special events.

Monthly Programming 

Programs
Coffee with the Curator

Take a walk through the galleries with the Curator and get a behind-the-scenes look into one of our current exhibitions.

TAC Talks

Featuring scholars from around the country, the lectures are selected to provide supplemental information on our current exhibits or to highlight the history and heritage of the mountains.

Movies at the Museum

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers, films about the arts, and about the history and culture of the Appalachian region.

BRAHM Book Club

In an effort to keep our audiences engaged and expand upon our current exhibition offerings BRAHM is starting a book club! The club will meet on the last Thursday of each month at 6 pm over zoom. The club meetings will be led by BRAHM programs & outreach director Willard Watson III and will feature guest speakers from time to time.

Create in Common

BRAHM's new online continuing education series for adults and teens, Create-in-Common will help you shed those quarantine blues. These classes will meet virtually 4 times over the course of a month and provide wonderful introduction in a new medium or inspiration for your favorite methods of making art.

Seasonal & Special Events

Programs
2025 BRAHM Summer Luncheon

Friday, June 26 or 27, 2025

Time: 3 pm or 6 pm

Location: Blowing Rock Country Club

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2025 BRAHM Summer Cocktail Buffet or Tea

Friday, June 27, 2025

Doors Open: 10:15 am

Talk Begins: 11:00 am, followed by lunch

Location: Blowing Rock Country Club

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The BRAHM Gala is our most anticipated event of the year and a fundraiser you don’t want to miss. Join us each summer for an elegant evening of dining, live music, live auction, and fun.

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2025 Blowing Rock Plein Air Festival

A multi-day plein air painting event that concludes with a "Wet Paint" Art Show & Sale where collectors and the public are invited view and purchase the unique works that highlight the incredible beauty of the High Country.

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2024 Blowing Rock Art & History Museum Tartan Gala

The BRAHM Gala is our most anticipated event of the year and a fundraiser you don’t want to miss. Join us each summer for an elegant evening of dining, live music, live auction, and fun.

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2024 Summer Luncheon

Friday, June 21, 2024

Doors Open: 10:15 am

Talk Begins: 11:00 am, followed by lunch

Location: Blowing Rock Country Club

RESERVATION & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED IN THE SPRING

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2024 Blowing Rock Plein Air Festival

A multi-day plein air painting event that concludes with a "Wet Paint" Art Show & Sale where collectors and the public are invited view and purchase the unique works that highlight the incredible beauty of the High Country.

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ARS POETICA II: A Juried Exhibition

Ars Poetica

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2023 BRAHM Gala

The BRAHM Gala is our most anticipated event of the year and a fundraiser you don’t want to miss. Join us each summer for an elegant evening of dining, live music, live auction, and fun.

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2023 Summer Luncheon

Friday, June 23, 2023

Doors Open: 10:15 am

Talk Begins: 11:00am, followed by lunch

Location: Blowing Rock Country Club

RESERVATION & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED IN THE SPRING

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 Hands-On Offerings

Workshops for Adults 

Programs
Cork & Canvas

Create art in a relaxed atmosphere facilitated by various local artists and art instructors. Each participant goes home with a finished work of art.

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Studio Workshops

Offering a variety of studio workshops for adults with differing skill levels. Learn from guest instructors utilizing a variety of mediums.

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Crafting with the Guild

A series of hands-on workshops with Southern Highland Craft Guild artists and artisans. Each workshop features a different artist and medium. Pre-registration for workshops is required. 

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Summer Camps
Summer Camps

BRAHM summer art camps are back! Your budding artist aged 7-12 is invited to join us for these fun filled 3-day, 4-hour camps.

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Backpack Art Kits
Backpack Art Kits

These kits are a great way to create with your visiting grandchildren or help keep the kids out of working parents’ hair for a week of daily activities. Each kit includes all art materials needed, detailed instructions and visuals. Order online for contactless pickup at BRAHM.

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Afternoon Art Club
Afternoon Art Club

Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Ideal for 6-10 year olds

Creative art-making activities highlighting a variety of artists and methods.

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Doodlebug Club
Doodlebug Club

Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:30 am | Ideal for preschool-aged children & an adult

Process-based art activities plus storytime!

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Young at Art
Young at Art

A community outreach program designed to augment the art curriculum for kindergartners through fourth graders at Blowing Rock Elementary School.

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Free Field Trip & School Bus Reimbursement Program
Free Field Trip & School Bus Reimbursement Program

BRAHM is proud to offer a Free Field Trip Program for public and home schools in Watauga, Ashe, Avery, and Caldwell counties. A limited number of reimbursements for school bus transportation are available for Watauga County schools that receive Title I funding, thanks to a grant from St. Mary of the Hills Episcopal Church.

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Community Days
Community Days

Each year, BRAHM offers several free, family-friendly days of fun, education, and celebration. Including our holiday open house, spooky stories & creepy crafts, and arctic art at BrrrRAHM.

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Travel

Programs
Travel with BRAHM

Every year BRAHM offers several opportunities for our members and friends to travel with us to various cultural hot-spots on the East Coast. With tours of museums, galleries, and private collections often led by curators and collectors, these trips are not to be missed. Early registration is offered to our Society Level Members first. General registration for all BRAHM patrons is available several months before the trip date.

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Upcoming Member Trips

Upcoming Events

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Mindfulness Meditation Group
Apr 30
Mindfulness Meditation Group

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.

Doodlebug Club - May 1
May 1
Doodlebug Club - May 1

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

Excavating One Ship with Two Identities: La Concorde and Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge
May 1
Excavating One Ship with Two Identities: La Concorde and Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been raised from the shipwreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge since full excavation began in 2005. Kimberly Kenyon of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology is the lead archaeologist for the site of Blackbeard’s infamous flagship, formerly the slave ship La Concorde.

Considerations: Mending Stones
May 2
Considerations: Mending Stones

Join us on Friday, May 3, 2025 for a discussion between Artist Sarah Vaughn and Reverend Andrew Hege about the significance and symbolism in both of their work.

Sit and Stitch - High Country Fiber Meet Up
May 3
Sit and Stitch - High Country Fiber Meet Up

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?

Community Day - Make your own Needle-felted rocks
May 3
Community Day - Make your own Needle-felted rocks


Join artist in residence Sarah Vaughn for a drop-in event creating needle-felted stones like those featured in her current BRAHM installation, Considerations. Throughout the last week of April interact with the artist during her residency week as she adds to the exhibition. To create your own felted stone, head down to the Wilson Education Center between 2:00 and 4:00 pm on Saturday. All materials and instructions provided. Recommended for ages 10+

Afternoon Art: May 6
May 6
Afternoon Art: May 6

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

Mindfulness Meditation Group
May 7
Mindfulness Meditation Group

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.

Knitted and Felted Wool Hats at the Lois E. Harrill Center
May 8
Knitted and Felted Wool Hats at the Lois E. Harrill Center

In this workshop, students will learn how to knit, read a pattern, design a project. Students will gain basic skills to be able to knit at home.

Exhibition Reception for Young at Art
May 8
Exhibition Reception for Young at Art

Join us for an exhibition reception as we celebrate the art created by every kindergarten through 4th grader at Blowing Rock School. Free and open to the public. You'll get to meet some of the young artists and see their work. This event is sponsored by the Blowing Rock Community Foundation.