Old World/New Soil Foreign-Born American Artists from the Asheville Art Museum Collection

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Sat, May 15, 2021
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2021-05-15T11:00:00-04:00
2021-05-15T18:00:00-04:00
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Asheville Art Museum
2 S Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
15 general admission $13 adult discounted admission (senior 65+) $10 student discounted admission
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René Pinchuk, Soliloquies, 1965, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 inches. Asheville Art Museum. © René Pinchuk.
Asheville, N.C.—Old World/New Soil: Foreign-Born American Artists from the Asheville Art Museum Collection features ceramics, glass, paintings, sculptures, fiber art, and more. This exhibition coincides with Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine. Both exhibitions will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall May 7 through August 2, 2021.

Inspired by the book Immigrant Gifts to American Life: Some Experiments in Appreciation of the Contributions of Our Foreign-Born Citizens to American Culture written in 1932 by Allen H. Eaton, a contemporary of Lewis Hine, the exhibition Old World/New Soil calls attention to the collection of works the Museum has acquired from artists who came to the United States either at their own prompting or out of necessity. Just as they adopted America as their new home, we have in turn embraced them, their creative output, and their artwork.

“This exhibition proudly displays artwork by those that chose the United States as their home but were not born here, in an American art museum,” says Whitney Richardson, associate curator. “I hope Old World/New Soil encourages visitors to not only see this country through the eyes of these artists, but also to appreciate the creativity they brought to us and shared. Many artists in this exhibition went on to teach in the US and influenced the next generation of Americans.”