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“Make stuff for fun!” Now Playing: BEE CiTY at NC mtn state fair!🥇🐝 next up:the Sweetest Sweet Potato Ballet- premiering BOOMBOOMBARNS 11/14 at WWC!🎶🚜

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🏆🎶🐝Experimental Art Club’s BEE CITY OF NOW has waggled on down to the NC Mountain State Fair, winning a pair of 1st place and BEST IN SHOW ribbons in the “community booth” category!!!!!!!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇Make sure to check out the Expo building bee-fore Sept 20 to see the model BEE-Scenes made by our Experimental interior Beesign Club with friends from Lyndon House Arts Center, AC Reynolds High School Art Club, Campaign for Southern BeeQuality, and more! taken in NC Mountain State Fair by @swannatopia

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In collaboration with WWC Art & Craft Department, BOOM BOOM BARNS will activate 5 acres of beautiful and historic barnscape as stages, projection surfaces and installation spaces. At sunset (5:28pm) we will illuminate them with a sunset surprise multimedia light show for the people.

Together, we will look, listen, move, taste, and feel, as we participate in a temporal study of the landscape. We are teaming up with many community friends and neighbors to bring you another ambient farm stroll and we invite you to join us as we rotationally graze the atmospheric fields.

BOOM BOOM BARNS draws inspiration from: tractor square dances, the dawn chorus, corn, Cornbread, tree dialects, spider webs, circular drift, geologic time, straw bales, boom boxes, chill hours, sweet potatoes, cows, mycelial music, vernacular architecture, plant growth, animal health, seasonal shifts, agri-CULTURAL practices, invisible circuses, turf mazes, the climate of sight, time streams, honeybee communication, spectral geographies, resonant frequencies, vibrational tendencies, bird’s eye views, bat ecosystems and our ever changing landscape.

November 14, 2026 4-8pm
Warren Wilson College Farm & Garden
Swannanoa, NC

More info at Swannatopia.com

Projection by @the_astronauts_ballet taken in Warren Wilson College by @swannatopia

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2 months ago

We'd like to extend a huge thank-you to Swannatopia for hosting yesterday's Waggle Workshop, which was BEE-yond amazing! With live accompaniment from Sally Anne Morgan, the Swannatopians led a "NOW TIME" hexagon dance inspired by the "waggle dance," a primary way that bees communicate with each other in their hives. Participants dressed up in handmade bee costumes, putting collage in motion as they followed steps like "bums toward the sun," "swing your bestie" and "fly home"! Just like the legendary costume parties at BMC, this event brought movement, laughter, and community connection into our space. Thank you to everyone who came out to participate in the workshop!⁠
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There are just two weeks left to see the Black Mountain COLL(A)GE exhibition, and we have one more summer program in store! Between August 20th and August 27th, Drones in the Garden will be installing a hanging botanical installation at BMCM+AC, so drop in anytime during the installation window to see the piece slowly come together. The installation will culminate in an evening performance Thursday, August 27th. We hope to see you there! by @swannatopia

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2 months ago

Join us at NOON on Saturday 8/15 at @bmcmuseum as we explore BEE communication, putting collage in motion through a “NOW TIME” Hexagon Dance WAGGLE workshop with @swannatopia ‘s Experimental Art Club and Sally Anne Morgan @sally_inthe_garden ! Inspired by traditions of Square Dancing, the NOW TIME Hexagon Dance is designed for groups of 6 bees (Registration is FREE, but capped at 24!). This event is presented in conjunction with Black Mountain COLL(A)GE , an exhibition exploring medium, method, and memory. Curated by Kira Houston and on view May 29 – September 5, 2026. More info at blackmountaincollege.org , registration link in bio! taken in Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center by @swannatopia

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3 months ago

A beeautiful first round of the hexagon dance happened yesterday at the Climate Summit @warrenwilsoncollege ! 🐝 thanks to @streetcreaturepuppets for bringing the buzz and being magical collaborators! Big thanks to @samara_jade_music and Ella and Mica Sun and for learning the Now Time Hexagon dance to serenade our waggling bums to the sun! and beejillion thanks to @sally_inthe_garden for composing the dance and thanks to BEES EVERYWHERE! it will Bee happening again at the @bmcmuseum in August! by @swannatopia

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4 months ago

🟡Join us this Thursday🟡for the 2026 Summer Series Opening Reception, including BEE CITY OF NOW on the second floor outdoor patio!

🟡Opening Reception: Thursday, June 18, 2026, from 5:30-7:30 PM🟡

Swannatopia and Experimental Art Club present BEE CITY OF NOW, a 24’ long model community for bees! Drawing inspiration from utopian experiments attempted and imagined, honeybee architecture and communication, theme parks, and cooperative and adaptive behaviors observed across life forms, the BEE CITY OF NOW explores the ways people relate to their built environment and one another through the lens of contemplative socioentomology (no live bees are involved in this project).

Lyndon House Arts Center Second Floor Outdoor Patio
On view June 18, 2026 - May 1, 2027

@swannatopia by @swannatopia

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4 months ago

May 29-31 ! @connectbeyondfestival at @the_orange_peel !! We, of Swannatopia, have festooned and furnished a fabulous feast 4 friends within the “Community Garden” !! All of the chairs are ~4” tall and it’s wired with lights!!!Thank you to Jessica and Charlie @impracticalinstruments @echomountainrecording @meowwolfsantafe for inviting us to bee a part! We can’t wait to see it all together!!! taken in The Orange Peel by @swannatopia

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5 months ago

Friday 5/29 Opening reception for
Black Mountain Coll(A)ge, curated by Kira Houston !
‬”an exhibition tracing the presence of collage through the history and legacy of the renowned liberal‬
‭ arts college. Combining work by Black Mountain College artists with select contemporary‬
‭ collagists, the exhibition foregrounds transformation as a radical strategy, assembling an‬ ever-shifting picture of collage as medium, method, and memory”
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‭We , of Swannatopia, are honored to have a pair of BeeWare/BeeGalia fashion looks on display, accompanied by an instructional “Now Time Hexagon Dance” video featuring an original fiddle tune and choreo by Sally Anne Morgan @sally_inthe_garden , and intra-hive-bee-roll from Erin and Tim @thislandfilms - all collaboratively collaged together for fun! And save the date also for August 15 for a NOW TIME HEXAGON DANCE workshop with Experimental Art Club at @bmcmuseum - but wait! There’s more!! our friends @drones_in_the_garden will be playing and building something beautiful in August so stay tuned!!!!! taken in Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center by @swannatopia

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5 months ago

Yesterday AMOS joined 25 other museums in Raleigh as part of @northcarolinasciencenetwork ‘s Museum Advocacy Day!

We’re always so proud to represent Asheville, and to make sure our state legislators are up to speed on all the amazing STEAM learning happening in Western North Carolina.

This year’s Museum Advocacy Day was extra special. Thanks to our friends at @swannatopia for helping us create a giant gem kaleidoscope full of native WNC minerals! taken in North Carolina General Assembly by @swannatopia

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6 months ago

This Thursday around 7ish we will have @pinkhousepuppets and @primrosecoke perform a double crankie feature in the backyard. Come bee and see it! taken in Swannanoa, North Carolina by @swannatopia

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6 months ago

Thank you to everyone who came out for our first BEE HOUSE workshop! 🐝✨ These bee-creations are so good—we had an amazing time building together!

Missed it or want more? Come join us for Session 2 and keep the buzz going! 🟡

🟡 BEE HOUSE Workshops 🟡
📅 April 25 | ⏰ 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Help us create a giant community honeycomb—one tiny artwork at a time.

Free + all ages (kids with an adult)
Sign up link in bio. by @swannatopia

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