The Arts Council in Hendersonville is trying new display area

The Henderson County Arts Council has just opened a show in the newly remodeled First Citizen's Bank on Main Street. Here is an excerpt from the Council website:

Through A Lens: Carolina Images (December 3 – 24)

The Arts Council of Henderson County's last exhibition of 2010, Through a Lens: Carolina Images, will be presented in the lobby gallery at First Citizens Bank, 539 North Main Street in downtown Hendersonville.

The show runs December 3-24; the opening reception is Friday, December 3rd from 5:30-8:30pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours at the bank are Monday-Thursday, 9am-5pm, and Friday, 9am-6pm.

"We are excited about partnering with First Citizens Bank in presenting Through a Lens," said Doug Jarvis, Board President of the Arts Council. "It is very important for the benefit of the entire community that the arts and business communities continue to create new ways to collaborate."

This juried show is being judged by Tim Barnwell, a commercial and fine art photographer based in Asheville. His career spans twenty-five years as both a professional photographer and a photography instructor, including serving as executive director of the nationally recognized school, Appalachian Photographic Workshops. He is widely collected and his work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, R.J. Reynolds Industries, the SOHO Photo Gallery in New York, the Newark Museumof Art,a nd the Bank of America corporate collection.

Here is a video of the opening: