In this virtual talk, world-renowned neuroscientist and psychologist Richard Davidson will draw from scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by cultivating certain habits of mind. By transforming the mind, these mental training strategies can improve the well-being of children and parents, students and teachers, citizens and communities.

In this virtual lecture, Anna Browne Ribeiro (assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Louisville) will explore some of the major ancient and historical patterns of expansion and contraction of political-economic systems alongside an analysis of resource and land-use strategies.

Room for a View "is an exploration of the correlation between brain and body memory of familial and familiar social experiences and the nature of the wet felting process, namely its reduction of airspace." - Lisa Klakulak   Viewing is available during open Owen Hall hours. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M - F) On […]

Southern Book Prize winner Carter Sickels is the author of the highly-acclaimed book The Prettiest Star.

Join more than 70 local and regional organizations at UNC Asheville at NextFest, an opportunity to connect with employers offering full and part-time opportunities, internships, seasonal opportunities, graduate schools and years of service!

Join Paul Golin, executive director of the Society of Humanistic Judaism, for an open conversation about the diversity of beliefs among American Jews today.

Large-scale figure narrative paintings in the Private Domain series, an exhibit from UNC Asheville Professor Emerita of Art Virginia Derryberry, blend elements from mythology and alchemy, the forerunner of modern science. The intent is to suggest multiple interpretations rather than a straightforward illustration of a specific narrative, a fitting choice in that alchemy by its […]

Featured panelists Sol Neely, Juan G. Sánchez Martínez, Gilliam Jackson aka Doyi, and Trey Adcock (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, enrolled Cherokee Nation) will discuss some of the ways Indigenous cultures see and understand the world, how Indigenous languages reflect worldviews rooted in relationships, and how storytelling serves to communicate knowledge across generations.

Diné writer Natanya Ann Pulley is author of the short story collection, With Teeth, and winner of the 2018 Many Voices Project competition

Join the University Chorale, Asheville Singers, and the UNCA Wind Ensemble for an evening of music. Chuck Taft, Melodie Galloway, and Fletcher Peacock, directors For more information, visit music.unca.edu/engage/upcoming-events/   Community Expectations As members of this community, we care about everyone. Faculty, staff, students, and visitors have a shared commitment to take the necessary precautions […]

During Admitted Student Days, incoming students interact with people and offices to help them prepare for a smooth transition to UNC Asheville.

Join the University Percussion Ensemble and the AfroMusics Ensemble for an afternoon of music. Adama Dembele, Toby King, and Matthew Richmond, directors. For more information, visit music.unca.edu/engage/upcoming-events/   Community Expectations As members of this community, we care about everyone. Faculty, staff, students, and visitors have a shared commitment to take the necessary precautions to avoid […]

Curated by New York Times bestselling author and fellow UNC Asheville alumnus, Wiley Cash ’00, the Common Word Community Read brings the UNC Asheville community together to engage in a collective educational experience. This event, an exclusive documentary screening of "America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment", is the second of three events supporting the spring 2022 read selection, "The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home" by Denise Kiernan.

Melissa Baltus (Univ. of Toledo) will consider the century of urban occupation and how Cahokia experienced a series of rapid material transformations in this virtual talk.

At 4 pm in the Highsmith Student Union, artist and UNC Asheville alum Ben Betsalel will give a talk, “Flight from Ukraine.” He will speak on his work and experiences in Ukraine, as well as the “Human Rights” art projects he has carried out in prisons and refugee camps around the world – and until about two weeks ago, in Ukraine. His talk will powerfully combine the political and the personal.

This in-person panel will feature three well-known area hiking experts, Danny Bernstein (author of numerous books on hiking in the region), Bill Hart (author of 3000 Miles in the Smokies and one of the foremost experts on the Great Smoky Mountains), and Jason McDougald (Director of Camp Grier and leader and one of the founders […]

The Department of Education invites you to join Asheville City and Buncombe County Area School art specialists for the closing reception to an exceptional exhibit celebrating community visual art mentors.

UNC Asheville Professor Emerita of Art Virginia Derryberry will be in-person for “A Conversation about Redux” in the Blowers Gallery. Derryberry will be giving a talk and discussing her work of large-scale figure narrative paintings from her Private Domain series. The exhibit, which is on display all month, blends elements from mythology and alchemy, the […]

Nadia Owusu is the author of Aftershocks, A Memoir (2021), a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection.

Damon Akins (Guilford College) will give a talk focused on the history of writing about Native California, Indigenous sovereignty, and settler colonialism.

UNC Asheville's Office of Sustainability celebrates its annual 2022 Spring Greenfest with nearly two weeks of events and activities.

Build tables for the BeLoved microvillage, craft household objects for microvillage residents and learn more about BeLoved's relationship with UNC Asheville and work in Asheville and Buncombe County.

*This event is not sponsored by or otherwise endorsed by UNC Asheville Across the state of North Carolina, local organizations of the Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics of North Carolina and the International Associate of Fire Fighters host bi-annual concerts to raise funds for fire education in their communities. Your support helps professional fire fighters, […]

Kevin Kehrberg and Jeff Keith (both of Warren Wilson College) will discuss their groundbreaking research on the construction of the railroad up Old Fort Mountain in the 1870s, its tragic consequences, and its historical and cultural memory.

Western North Carolina scholars Tiece Ruffin (UNC Asheville), Rima Vesely-Flad (Warren Wilson College), David Walton (Western Carolina University), and Jonathan McCoy (Mars Hill University) to converse and discuss their work dismantling white supremacy, reparations, reconciliation, and addressing generational trauma in this inter-institutional Africana studies discussion.

Current students, alumni, staff, faculty, and faculty emeriti of the UNC Asheville Department of Art & Art History are participating in THRIVE ! – an invitational exhibition of small works on paper. “I wanted to express this idea that despite COVID, and despite our department’s relocation during renovation – art thrives here, it is the […]

A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery and other artwork crafted by UNC Asheville students will be on sale during the Spring UNC Asheville Student Art and Ceramics Sale to be held Friday, April 22, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, and on Saturday, April 23, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Curated by New York Times bestselling author and fellow UNC Asheville alumnus, Wiley Cash ’00, the Common Word Community Read brings the UNC Asheville community together to engage in a collective educational experience. For this closing of three events supporting the spring 2022 read selection, "The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home" by Denise Kiernan, join Cash in conversation with the author.

Documentarian Michael Frienerson will screen his new film on noted NC novelist and poet Fred Chappell.

The Reuter Center Singers presents "On The Road Again," a concert in delightful celebration of being “in the sing again.”

The exhibit features thought-provoking photos taken by students, faculty, and staff while traveling abroad.

Join STEAM Studio for an evening of craft, food, fun, and fundraising when UNC Asheville's STEAM Studio SkillSet celebrates its fourth anniversary!

The first-ever Asheville Ideas Fest (AIF) will bring together global thought leaders in Asheville to focus on the most consequential issues of our time.

Zakaria's talk on Democracy Around the Globe: Myths and Reality, a highlight of the inaugural Asheville Ideas Fest, is open to the public as a free but ticketed event. Reserve your ticket now.

Hundreds of musicians, dancers, and storytellers, who are preserving the traditions of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, will perform on stage at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall.

The premier of “Racist Roots,” a 25-minute film created by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, exposes the death penalty’s deep entanglement with slavery, lynching and racism.

Join UNC Asheville Alumna and New York Times Bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen for the launch of her latest novel, Other Birds.

Climate change is, arguably, the single greatest and gravest human rights issue facing the entire planet. Although greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) threaten human rights without respect for national borders, most laws, both domestic and international, are "territorial" in scope with a state's obligations ending at its own territorial borders.

Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lawler will give a lecture on his most recent book Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 8 in the Mountain View Suites in Highsmith Student Union.