{"id":11130,"date":"2017-02-14T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:25:14","slug":"marshall-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/marshall-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Industry is Built upon the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small Madison County town, Marshall, NC is an enclave of artists that&#8217;s in the midst of a renaissance.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbQh_hM9A6I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>><br \/>\nMarshall, population 800, is the Madison County seat and sits on the banks of the French Broad River some 20 miles north of Asheville. Marshall&#8217;s Main Street offers signs of the town&#8217;s unique blend of old and the new. There&#8217;s a bookstore and numerous cafes, galleries, antique shops, and eateries.<br \/>\nThe epicenter of local arts are the <a href=\"http:\/\/marshallhighstudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshall High Studios<\/a>, a former high school on Blannahassett Island in the middle of the French Broad River that&#8217;s connected to downtown by a bridge. The building, which dates to 1925, was renovated and reopened in 2007 as a home for 28 artist studios. In addition to hosting working artists who specialize in numerous different media, the 28,000-square-foot facility hosts regular classes, exhibitions, and performances.<br \/>\n\u201cYou know, I\u2019m real fortunate to live in a community where everybody\u2019s an artist of some sort,\u201d said Joel, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zumacoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zuma Coffee<\/a> on Main Street. \u201cIt made way for a lot of new people to move here and to become part of the community.\u201d<br \/>\nAnother Main Street mainstay is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Depot-in-Marshall-NC-304632369608183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Depot<\/a>, an old-timey general store. It&#8217;s a great community shopping spot that doubles as a performance venue on Friday nights, when local musicians strike up a soundtrack of traditional bluegrass and country music. The <a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountyarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison County Arts Center<\/a>, also on Main Street, presents regular exhibitions of both traditional and contemporary art.<br \/>\nA couple of blocks away is the volunteer-run <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchbroadinstitute.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Broad Institute (Of Time and The River)<\/a>. &#8220;The FBI,&#8221; which was opened in 2007 in a former Methodist church built in 1912, served the community &#8220;by providing a forum for curated collaborations, multidisciplinary performances,&#8221; and &#8220;an investigative think tank for reimagining the relationship between traditional and avant-garde arts, and between the time-based arts and the natural sciences.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cI love that it\u2019s growing very slowly and very organically, and that it happens through the people,\u201d said Joel. \u201cThere\u2019s a real impetus on keeping it community based. So, I see it still continue to grow in this pattern and becoming a real living community, as opposed to a tourist community.\u201d<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/marshall-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Marshall is Thriving Thanks to its Arts and Community\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSee the beauty of Marshall for yourself! Read more about Marshall, NC, see more photos, or search for homes in the area, from our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/communities\/marshall\"> Beverly-Hanks Marshall community page<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small Madison County town, Marshall, NC is an enclave of artists that&#8217;s in the midst of a renaissance. > Marshall, population 800, is the Madison County seat and sits on the banks of the French Broad River some 20 miles north of Asheville. Marshall&#8217;s Main Street offers signs of the town&#8217;s unique blend of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/marshall-industry\/\" title=\"Read Marshall Industry is Built upon the Arts\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,52],"tags":[3,41,30,7],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-community-info","tag-commercial","tag-local-arts","tag-marshall","tag-wnc-businesses"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naibeverly-hanks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}