The Bascom - Collective Spirits 2015 - Highlands, NC
Tour Highlands NC
Take a tour of Highlands, North Carolina. Meet the people and see the places that make Highlands, North Carolina an amazing place to visit.
Around Town: Highlands
Whether you fill up your shopping bag on Main Street or your backpack for outdoor adventures, this upscale mountain town is a welcoming escape.
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Escaping the Heat to Highlands, NC
The temperatures drop by 10 to 15 degrees at 4,118 feet elevation in Highlands, NC on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau. See what there is to do and where to stay in this charming mountain town in the Western North Carolina Mountains.
On the Road - Four65 Woodfire Grill, Highlands, NC | Atlanta Eats
The Highlands, NC has the small town charm you’re looking for nestled in the beauty of the Appalachians. But they also have delicious food and dining options, and their newest, Four65 Woodfire Grill, doesn’t disappoint. Everything is cooked in high end, Italian woodfire ovens - and it shows in their incredible pizza, salads, sandwiches and desserts. Let’s look into the flames and see what’s the 411 at Four65.
Stickworks: Patrick Dougherty at the Bascom
Visit with internationally recognized sculptor Patrick Dougherty as he works on an installation for the Bascom visual arts center in Highlands, N.C. The work, which remains on view at the Bascom, was created from tree saplings and sticks with the help of community volunteers. Video produced exclusively for Our State magazine by Matt Rose.
Highlands School 3D Design at The Bascom Art Center, Fall 2014
Highlands High School Students Arrive at The Bascom, A Center for the Visual Arts, in Highlands, North Carolina. Now in its fifth year, our High School Ceramics and 3-D program enrolls local upperclassmen in this free, for-credit elective at The Bascom. Lessons cover pottery, glaze techniques, sculpture fundamentals, documentation, pricing and cataloging. The 80-plus classes culminate in a Bascom exhibit.
In this video, students apply the principals and elements of 3-dimensional design to produce recycled cardboard sculptures based on their original 2-point perspective drawings.
Adda Live @ Highlands, NC
Ruby Drop New Years Eve - Main St. Franklin NC - Tour Macon County NC
Hike with Me | Nantahala National Forest North Carolina, Georgia
Hike with me around The Highlands and throughout Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina. The beginning of the video was filmed at The Bascom which is a fine arts center near the Highlands in North Carolina. See the waterfalls that lead up to the mountain city and the plant life that resides there. See the gems at Ruby City in Franklin NC and go on a hike through the valleys of the Appalachian mountains. At the end of the video is a hike through Tallulah Gorge in Georgia.Thanks for watching! Like, comment, and subscribe for more videos like this one!
Song- Speak by Nickel Creek
Austin + Victoria's Engagement at Big Bear Pen Highlands, NC 09.26.14
ARTalks 8: Southern Lights Abstract Painting, Summer 2014
ARTalks 8: Students from across the United States descend on The Bascom art center in Highlands, North Carolina, for a 5-day workshop with the renowned Southern Lights abstract painters - Audrey Phillips, Charlotte Foust, Krista Harris, and Martica Griffin. The artists show their students how to intuitively use line, shape, and palette to evoke emotion and cultural heritage. The workshop participants speak to the communal energy of the studio and how the experience propels their creative practice.
Learn more about The Bascom, TheBascom.org, 828-526-4949.
Video Credit: Highlands Mediaworks (YouTube channel: highlandmediaworks)
Magnificent, Rustic & Elegant Home for Sale in Franklin, NC
This magnificent rustic elegant home overlooks the lush landscaping with 3 ponds a mountain view, and total privacy because the property adjoins USFS! Guest Quarters are located separately from the home. This is truly a one of a kind Mountain Getaway! For additional information click the link below...
ARTalks 14: The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers, Summer 2014
ARTalks 14: Members of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers and Master Knitter Charles Gandy discuss their longstanding collaboration and involvement with The Bascom art center in Highlands, North Carolina, TheBascom.org, 828-526-4949.
Video Credit: Highland Mediaworks (YouTube Channel: highlandmediaworks)
The Bascom - Family Day 2015 - Highalnds, NC
Bridal Veil Falls- Highlands, NC
In this video we show you what driving behind Bridal Veil Falls is like. The cascade and fall is a combined 120 feet from the top as it splashes just outside of your car door. An excellent experience for the entire family. Located just minutes from downtown Highlands, NC.
History of Clogging - by Britt
A Brief History of Clog Dancing - by Jeff Driggs, Editor of the Double Toe Times Clogging Magazine
Clogging is a truly American dance form that began in the Appalachian Mountains and now enjoys widespread popularity throughout tile (United States and around the world. As the Appalachians were settled in the mid 1700's by the Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch-Germans, the folk dances of each area met and began to combine in an impromptu foot-tapping style, the beginning of clog dancing as we know it today. The word Clog comes from the Gaelic, and means time. Clogging is a dance that is done in time with the music -to the downbeat usually with the heel keeping rhythm.
For the most part, clogging evolved as an individual form of expression, with a person using his feet as an instrument to make rhythmic and percussive sounds to accompany the music. At the turn of the century, many cloggers began to add this developing step dance to the square dances that had been enjoyed in their communities for decades. One of clog dancing's most renowned founders, Bascom Lamar Lunsford of Asheville, North Carolina, helped to popularise the art of team clogging by adding it as a category of competition in the annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival held in Asheville during the late 1920's. A group called the Soco Gap Cloggers won the competition with a routine featuring precision mountain figures accompanied by freestyle step dancing. In a performance for the Queen of England, it is reported that her majesty remarked at the footwork as very much like Clogging in her country. The term stuck, and the media used the term in documenting the performance. The step dance emerging from the Southern Mountains became known as clog dancing.
In the mid 1930's, another innovator emerged to help propel mountain style dancing to national prominence. Dr. Lloyd Pappy Shaw, a teacher and Superintendent at the Cheyenne Mountain School in Colorado, and an avid collector of dances, steps and square dance calls formed an exhibition team from the dozens of high school students he taught and began to tour the United States, sharing his knowledge of dance with all who were interested.
As Americans became more mobile, and interstate highways offered the opportunity for dancers to travel from area to area, the popularity of square dancing as a national activity increased. As square dancing began to evolve as a structured activity, the emphasis focused on the execution of the figures, and the step dancing footwork that had accompanied earlier dances was replaced by a gliding step. Clogging once again was relegated to solo expression, with only certain areas of Appalachia and the Ozarks continuing to dance the old-time calls with clogging footwork. During this period, Bill Nichols, of South Carolina, taught clogging and old-time squares at the Fontana Resort in the Western Carolina mountains and built a legacy of instruction that has branched out to include teachers from all parts of the United States. He is considered by many to be the Grandfather of modern clogging.
During the late 1970's, a new means of clogging expression began to gain popularity -- the line dance. Propelled by the catchy beat of country and pop tunes, teachers such as Tandy Barrett and JoAAnn Gibbs of Georgia, Gloria Driver of Texas, and others wrote sequences of steps to accompany phrases of a popular tune. Also during this time, the Green Grass Cloggers were formed in North Carolina. The group combined old time steps with high kicks to create a uniquely stylised clogging form that endures today.
Sheila Popwell, of Georgia, is credited as one of the creators of the first standardized cueing and terminology methods. These generally accepted forms of notation made it possible for cue sheets to be produced for dance routines, giving dancers the opportunity to learn new material without having to travel to workshops or conferences.
Clogging today is less impromptu and more complicated than the simple rhythmic dance begun by our ancestors. New influences are creeping into the dance because of popular culture. Tap dancing, Canadian Step Dancing, Irish Hard Shoe and even street dancing and hip-hop influences are being seen to bear on the style of steps and dances performed by cloggers today. Performing teams wearing brightly colored costumes, calico or sequins have sprung up everywhere, providing entertainment with impressive precision footwork. In 2003, clog was included as a competitive dancesport in the AAU Junior Olympics.
ARTalks 1: Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt, Highlands Landscape, Summer 2014
ARTalks 1: The Bascom is pleased to launch a new series of educational videos, Art Talks. This first video in the series features photographer and teacher, Benjamin Dimmitt. In this video the film crew follows Dimmitt and his students into the beautiful Highlands landscape to capture nature through digital landscape photography.
Benjamin Dimmitt's next workshop at The Bascom will be September 22 to 24, 2014. For more information, or to sign up, please click the link below!
Video Credit: Aimie Burns
ARTalks 9: Tom Turner, A Passion in Porcelain, Summer 2014
ARTalks 9: Tom Turner, leading American porcelain potter, explains the significance of his 50-year retrospective, A Passion in Porcelain, at The Bascom art center in Highlands, North Carolina. The exhibition features the best examples of Turner's work, including his innovative techniques in copper red salt glazes. The installation relates his personal and professional experiences to the emergence of the American Ceramic Studio Movement from the mid-1960's to the present. A recreation of his early experimental salt glaze kiln is constructed at the core of the exhibition. Turner explains that his retrospective at The Bascom marks the end of a distinguished career.
Learn more about The Bascom, TheBascom.org, 828-526-4949.
Video Credit: Aimie Burns
Brushy Mountain Apple Festival
Life in the Carolinas host Carl White takes you on a fun afternoon at the Brushy Mountain Apple Festival in North Wilkesboro, NC.