The Madison County Arts Council

10/22/2026

Does anyone on here know local people who work for My Newsletter Builder here in Asheville? We use them for our e-news, and their site has been down for about a week. Tech support number is dead, but that's been true for a while. Pic for attention.

10/20/2026

From our friends at Community Make Space:

You Do You: Make Your Own Polymer Buttons

w/ Barbara McGuire

An introduction to color, form, and playful design

Thursday, October 22 · 10am–2pm

Details here:

Bring anything you’d like to make buttons for: a favorite cardigan, jacket, bag, journal, or something entirely unexpected. We will use polymer clay and show you how to design and create durable, waterproof buttons. No previous experience necessary.

10/15/2026

Artist Talk
Lauren Rutten & Jack Sorokin
Friday, October 16, 7 PM
Madison County Arts Council
Marshall, NC - FREE and Open to the public ...
From Lauren Rutten of "Save This Piece"
"What do we choose to photograph when the world around us has been turned upside down? What draws our attention, and why? And how does making something help us understand what we've experienced?

These are some of the questions I'll be exploring this Friday evening with my son, photographer and filmmaker Jack Sorokin, who will moderate an artist talk for my exhibition Save This Piece: All That Remains After the Waters Recede.

We both spent time working in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, shoveling mud, helping our neighbors, and making photographs. But we were looking at the same experience through different lenses.

We'll talk about those differences, about grief and beauty, the marks that remain after loss, and the ways art can become an act of remembering and repair.

And we'll talk about the many voices that have become part of this project, and what it means to make something that extends beyond one's own experience.

Please join us for what I hope will be a thoughtful and open conversation."

Friday, October 16, 7 PM
Madison County Arts Council
Marshall, NC

10/14/2026

“Save This Piece” Artist Talk with Lauren Rutten (Lauren Rutten) on Friday, October 16. Come on out and learn more about this powerful body of work from the artist herself!

10/12/2026

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10/12/2026

Today in Marshall! 90 South Main Street...

09/24/2026

We are honored to be hosting a Celebration of Life for Pat Franklin on Sunday, September 27 from 1-3pm.

09/14/2026

Congratulations are in order for former MCAC Executive Director and former Bluff Mounatin Festival Director (along with so much more), Rodney Clay Sutton!!!

A big congratulations to Rodney Sutton, who is the winner of the 2026 Lunsford Award! We love you, Rodney!

Rodney will receive the award at 11:00 at this year's Bascom Lamar Lunsford Mountain Music Festival . He'll perform a set, and so will the Green Grass Cloggers. Come join us!

https://www.mhu.edu/ramsey-center/a-tradition-in-motion-rodney-sutton-to-receive-bascom-lamar-lunsford-award/

The Ramsey Center is a proud site on the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina.

09/08/2026

We are very excited to be presenting this very meaningful body of work from Lauren Rutten! The show opens on September 25.

While pitching in to clean up devastated Marshall after Helene, photographer Lauren Rutten couldn’t help but notice some of the finer details in the chaos. “I was in an exterior stairwell [at Marshall High Studios] and noticed waves of silt on the floor leading into the brick wall,” she says. ...