TWO YOUNG MISSOULA CHILDREN’S THEATER DIRECTORS STAGE A REMARKABLE ASHE COUNTY PRODUCTION IN ONE WEEK
By: John C. Nelson The Missoula Children’s Theater (MCT) was founded in 1970 and currently stages performances in over 1,100 communities worldwide. The Ashe County Arts Council has been on MCT’s tour schedule since 1999. This past weekend, thirty-four children,...
Coming Full Circle with Jim Lloyd and JAM
By John C. Nelson, July 17, 2024.Jim Lloyd hails from four generations of family musicians. He was raised primarily in Virginia and West Virginia. He recalls first picking up a guitar when he was about five years old. “I would sneak into my grandmother’s bedroom and...
Artist Rudy Mendez Mentors Ashe County Students at the Colorful Impact Summer Camp
By John C. NelsonJuly 8, 2024. Rudy Mendez’s career as an artist had an inauspicious beginning. Thirty years ago he received a citation for spray painting graffiti on a concrete slab of the Los Angeles County flood control aqueduct system. He was a typical...