Best Classes & Workshops in and around Asheville
Your Guide To: Best Classes & Workshops in and around Asheville
Is it on your New Year’s Resolutions to learn a new skill or pick up a new hobby?!
We’ve rounded up the best places to take a class or workshop in and around Asheville to kickstart your resolutions ⤵️
1. Black Mountain Yoga
Instagram: @blackmountainyoga
Location: 116 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain, NC
Black Mountain Yoga is a full movement studio. We offer an alignment-based approach to yoga, prioritizing form before you move deeper with a foundation of mindful, meditative practice.
Our classes range from Power Vinyasa to Restorative Yoga, and our Workshops include Sound Baths, Yoga Nidra, Therapeutic practices, and more focusing on healing.
2. AR Workshop Asheville
Instagram: @arworkshopasheville
Location: 100 Julian Ln Ste 140, Arden, NC
AR Workshop Asheville is a DIY boutique featuring wood, canvas, and chunky knit yarn individualized decor. We also now offer soy wax candle pouring! Our stain is non-toxic and our boutique paint options are of the highest quality. We are the perfect option for birthday parties (any age!), team building/corporate events and just a fun night of DIY with your favorite people.
3. Mtn. Metalworks Asheville
Instagram: @emmamacchiarini
Location: 22 London Rd, Asheville, NC
Mtn. Metalworks Jewelry is a workshop space and gallery dedicated to creating handcrafted sculptural style bench Jewelry. Instructor Emma Macchiarini, is a third generation Jewelry professional, and female business owner who started this business in Asheville in 2021. Macchiarini guides students through the creation of their own Jewelry with an emphasis on careful crafting, and traditional bench practices. Emma also offers specialty workshops in creating DIY wedding rings.
4. Smitten Smiths Gallery
Instagram: @smittensmithsgallery
Location: 3636 Brevard Rd Ste. 1, Hendersonville, NC
At Smitten Smith's Gallery we are known for our artisan jewelry crafted from fine metals and precious and semiprecious gemstones, and our Make-Your-Own-Jewelry Classes!
5. Story Parlor
Instagram: @storyparloravl
Location: 227 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC
We offer ongoing classes aimed at exploring the creative process, storytelling through all art, and how these topics intersect with our worldview, sense of purpose, and personal narrative. Classes are crafted to be accessible to all mediums, backgrounds, and experiences, with our curriculum firmly rooted in the belief that everyone is creative, and we all have a story to tell.
6. SkillSet at UNCA STEAM Studio
Instagram: @skillsetprogram
Location: 821 Riverside Drive Asheville, NC
SkillSet offers after school programs, summer camps, workshops, mobile programming, and mentorship opportunities for folks age 8 and up! (Yes, even adults.) We are working to help bridge the gender gap in STEAM fields and trades, and create excitement and curiosity around these fields, no matter your identity!
7. Asheville Art Museum
Instagram: @ashevilleartmuseum
Location: 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC
The Museum's studio program for adults offers a core curriculum in drawing, painting, printmaking, and three-dimensional media, and also explores the intersections between them. Local and visiting artists help students of all levels and abilities develop skills in media that reflect techniques and themes featured in the Museum’s Collection and special exhibitions.
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