East West Asheville Holiday Art Walk is Back!!

The 2nd annual East West Asheville Holiday Art Walk is scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2009 from 12 - 8pm. This year we will also be participating with the First Annual Shop West Asheville event!

Mimi Strang Design will be hosting artists in her studio, and Crazy Green Studios will be hosting artists from the 2nd Saturday Artist Market. Artists interested in vending with the 2nd Saturday Artist Market can send an inquiry to 'info AT crazygreenstudios DOT com'. In addition, artists will have the opportunity to apply for vending space at other locations in West Asheville through Shop West Asheville.

If you're an artist interested in vending for the Shop West Asheville Market, or for more information about the Shop West Asheville event, check out the website, and check back here for more details!

Thanks for coming to the Art Walk!

Intentions were high to post pictures and a general thank you to all who came out for the East West Holiday Art Walk, but once the great day was over, a massive exhale and then digging back out from under everything that had been put aside to get ready for the show took over!

So first and foremost, thank you to everyone who came out, strolled along Haywood Road (and Domino Lane!). It was most exciting to see many new faces and see people discovering a lot of the fabulous businesses along the route for the very first time.

And for those of you who missed the Art Walk, you can still make great holiday purchases from all the participating businesses - some still have great holiday promotions going on through the end of the month, so make regular trips into East West Asheville to see what's happening!

As we get more pictures from participants, we'll share them here, and if you know of any, put up a comment and we'll link that too!

Scenes from Mimi Strang's studio on Domino Lane. She welcomed guests Leslie Fay and Simone Wilson

Starting at Domino Lane (which is where I am and the pictures I have!), we had a nice, steady flow of friends old and new. The flow was constant enough that not many pictures were taken during the Art Walk, but for those of you who missed it, you can see how nicely we cleaned up!

And scenes from Crazy Green Studios, where Lori Theriault welcomed fellow
potters Jennifer Hoolihan and Catherine Shane

Stay tuned, with any luck we'll have pictures from SantaCon too!

Participant Spotlight: The Admiral

You can make plans for lunch and/or dinner at the Admiral as you make your way through the Art Walk. Smack dab in the middle of the Art Walk map, The Admiral, at 400 Haywood Road is serving the best eclectic food in West Asheville 5-10 seven days a week, and a lite lunch menu from 2-5. The menu changes daily (brunch weekly) as they try to always keep the food creative and fresh.

Reservations are welcome 7 days a week for parties of 5 or more.

The Admiral is non-smokoing until 10 o'clock, and every Saturday night is Soul/R&B/Mod/Funk/Punk-ish dance night (so come early to Art Walk, stay late to get yer groove on!)

As for what 'the people' have to say, check out these reviews:

The Insider
Mountain Express
Yelp

Participant Spotlight: Blue Barnhouse

As we move closer to the East West Asheville Art Walk, we'll be sharing mini-profiles of the participating artists and businesses, and we're very pleased to bring you our first profile:

BLUE BARNHOUSE

Blue Barnhouse is a letterpress & design studio where everything they make is crafted by hand with the time-tested methods of letterpress printing. They provide a comprehensive suite of paper goods to meet your personal and professional needs.

You've got a tease of what's to come in our poster and post card for the show in the title of this blog site, designed and produced by Blue Barnhouse and soon to hit the streets and mailboxes! Click on the image above to go to their website, or click on their image in the list to the right to see the Flickr.com photoset.

The East West Asheville Holiday Art Walk

ARTISTS AND BUSINESSES IN WEST ASHEVILLE HOST HOLIDAY ART WALK

Event Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008 from 10:00am to 6:00pm

Until recently, if you were to say ‘West Asheville’, thoughts usually ran to the shops and restaurants along Haywood Road at the Bledsoe Building and generally west of State Street. But in the past year alone, several new businesses have inhabited buildings along and adjoining Haywood Road immediately east and west of I-240. These new additions have expanded the mercantile strip of Haywood Road, creating another hub of eclectic businesses to draw drive by and walk by patrons into West Asheville.

On Saturday, December 6, several artists and businesses, including several that have opened within the past year, will host a Holiday Art Walk to welcome the holiday season and celebrate the diverse and growing small businesses of the area. Designated the “East West Asheville Holiday Art Walk”, the parameters of the event span the area on Haywood Road on both sides of I-240, and include Domino Lane – a side street off Westwood Place. Participating businesses include the Bloom Room, Blue Ribbon Hair, Minx and Runny Bunny, just west of I-240 on Haywood Road. On the east side, Haywood Road merchants include The Admiral Restaurant, Harvest Records, Blue Barnhouse, A Touch of Glass, Bookworks, Custom, Marty Mitchell Glass, Krug Creative and Steebo Designs. Crazy Green Studios, Mimi Strang Design and Pleasant Hugh Studio are located on Domino Lane. At press time, additional businesses were being added but had not yet been confirmed.

With ample street parking on Haywood Road and on adjoining side streets, all businesses can easily be reached on foot.