Asheville Fine Art Show presented by Hotworks.org

The Asheville Fine Art Show is a high quality fine art & craft show and is juried by art professionals. The focus is quality, not quantity – with emphasis on originality, technique and execution.  Award-winning artists from around the globe and top-notch Carolina artists will have art work available for purchase including sculpture, paintings, glass, clay, wood, fiber, photography, jewelry and more. All work is original and personally handmade by the artist who is present at the show. Our team continuously travels around the country and to Canada to recruit the best artists, of which this may be their only North Carolina event.  In order to attract the higher quality artists, the judges award cash prizes.
 
Hot Works’ has an outstanding national reputation, with four of the top 100 juried art shows in the nation that take place in West Bloomfield, Michigan; Estero Fine Art Show in Fort Myers; and Boca Raton Fine Art Show in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. The Asheville Fine Art Show brings much positive national exposure and economic impact into Asheville and the surrounding communities.   
 
Institute for the Arts & Education is the non-profit 501c3 organization which focuses on visual arts, diversity, community enrichment and fostering art education among youth. IA&E implements ways to enrich lives and strengthen the community through the power of arts. We help teach communities how art work is made, and further enhance the involvement of the community with our events.  Besides all art being original (no buy/sell/manufactured “art), art demonstrations will take place so that our patrons may learn how some of the art work is made. 
 
As part of our commitment to bring art education into the community, a Youth Art Competition for grades K-8 or ages 5-13 is integrated into the art show – a program that is unique in the nation to our shows. The Youth Art Competition encourages students in the community to enter his/her original and personally handmade art to be publicly displayed in the art show the entire weekend. There is $250 in Youth Art Awards as students are exposed to the rules and entrepreneurship opportunity of doing something they love for a living. It brings families to the event who would not otherwise attend and is a positive experience for those involved.
 
Both onsite marketing and/or community enrichment opportunities – in which no personnel is required by you – are available. We are happy to tailor a package based on your goals. We are looking for a sponsor for the Youth Art Competition, too.
 
Our #1 goal is to make the Asheville Fine Art Show a pleasant and profitable experience for all of our stakeholders – the city, the artists, the sponsors, the media, the patrons - at the same time bringing a wonderful event to the community.  Hot Works and its non-profit 501.C.3 arm, Institute for the Arts and Education, are proud of the success and nationwide recognition we have achieved in our educational endeavors. We are all equal stakeholders in this event.