Asheville Art Museum Multimedia Tour and Online Collection Database

FAIN: HC-276434-20

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (Asheville, NC 28801-3521)
Kristi McMillan (Project Director: May 2020 to August 2021)

Adaptation of a currently inaccessible permanent museum exhibition to a digital environment, as well as partial salaries for seven museum staff and one intern. 

The Asheville Art Museum will develop a multimedia tour of its Collection exhibition, Intersections in American Art, and make the Collection publicly accessible through a searchable online Collection database. to be accessed via the Museum’s website for visitors both onsite and those accessing the Museum remotely. In addition to individual works of art, the tour will explore the thematic and contextual focuses of Intersections in American Art, which are informed by artistic principals exemplified by Black Mountain College because of its unique relevance to Western North Carolina and its important influence on the national and international art community. This tour will tell the story of our area, explore its relationship to and national impact on the art world, and strengthen participants’ connection to and understanding of our unique community.