Sheet Painting Party

Name: Sheet Painting Party
Start: 2025-09-03T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 34 Pearson Dr, Asheville, NC 28801-2134, United States

Schedule

Wed Sep 03 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

34 Pearson Dr, Asheville, NC 28801-2134, United States | Asheville, NC

Wrap the Woods Painting Party on September 3, 2025!
Our next (and last) opportunity to paint a slogan on a sheet for the Wrap the Woods event takes place on Wednesday, September 3 at the Tempie Avery Montford Community Center, 34 Pearson Dr. Please drop in any time between 5 and 7 p.m. Bring paint, brushes, and sheets if you have them! (We have extras if you don’t.) We also need small containers to rinse brushes and newspaper or cardboard to protect the tables and sidewalk from paint.
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Help us wrap the UNCA Urban Forest on Saturday, September 6, 2025, to show our love for this precious natural resource! Let's save the woods from development by @unc_asheville and @ashevillecitysc .
Please see the link in bio to register: https://www.saveuncawoods.org/events/wrap-the-woods-event
Meet at 9:30 a.m., wrap event will be from 10-11 a.m. (meeting locations TBA).
Please bring a sheet (used, from a thrift shop if you’d like to paint a message on it). We will email you with more details, and sheet / sign-painting opportunities.
The Wrap the Woods event was inspired by Peggy Gardner who, in 1980, had the idea for an educational, art installation of wrapping the entire 11-acre area of Downtown Asheville by holding up a chain of cloth to help give people a visual sense of the area to be demolished to make way for a mall complex. Two hundred people volunteered to help save downtown.
The urban forest is the area in need of our preservation. Join us is saying no to a plan to raze 54 wooded acres to build a 5,000-seat stadium/concert venue, market-rate housing, and retail.
Want to do more? Click the sign-up to be a section organizer on the day of the event or to bring additional sheets or fabric to wrap the woods.
Please tell your family, friends, and neighbors!
Thanks to @alli_marshall for leading the organization of this event!
#savethewoods #saveuncawoods #environment #trees #savethetrees