Good art and good music, gourmet snacks, wine, conviviality, teaching and learning, what could be better than all that? The Hickory Museum of Art put on a three-tiered performance Saturday night, February 9, 2013. From the rarefied atmosphere of level three of the museum, filled with amazing folk art and appreciative visitors and viewers, down to the second level where discussions of the Blue Ridge Realists art, including its creators, were taking place. One of those discussions is shown in the top photograph being led by the museum’s curator, Lisë Swensson.
Finally coming on down to earth in the lower level where that gallery was also filled with more work by many of those artists, and there were still more snacks there, and the room was filled with the beautiful harp music of Joan Johnson, a member of the Western Piedmont Symphony, also here in Hickory.
