Other current exhibitions: Harlan Toole, Steven Siegel: Wonderful Life, The Halpert Biennial 2009: A National Juried Visual Art Competition & Exhibition

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts presents exhibition, education, and collection programs that support Appalachian State University's role as a key regional educational, cultural, and economic resource.

The core beliefs are...

• The arts play vital roles in the development of creative and critical potential, and in experiencing, interpreting, understanding, recording and shaping culture.
• The arts have an important positive impact on our local and regional economy.
• Interaction with the arts enrich the lives of the participants through experiences that are both educational and therapeutic, and builds an audience that recognizes the cultural and personal importance of the arts.
• The center should be an accessible place to investigate art's roles by implementing programs that engender and strengthen the Appalachian community's participation in and ownership of the arts, and an emphasis is placed on partnerships with the university's academic areas and with key local education, social service, and economic agencies.
• The center should be a key regional educational and cultural resource that offers a dynamic space and programs where participants experience and incorporate the power and excitement of the visual arts into their lives.
• Programs of the center should reflect the diversity of the world around us through the presentation of regional, national and international artists of significance.