Annette has such a heart to give & serve others. When someone is hurting, Annette feels their need and wants. She tends to give hope and guidance to find peace and prosper mindfully.

That's how she is. Her art, her gallery and Healing Arts has always been and always will be about blessing or prospering a person. Whether she's painting a family portrait or lifting someone to their next level of art or life in a class, she's in it for them(you). Yes, she receives joy in making art but in my opinion, if you'd ask her, her joy is exponentially more when she's helping someone get to their next level in art and in life.

Annette, her son Aziza and myself, Mark, worked together to build our gallery, Annette's Atelier. We had a vision to create a a place, a space where we can share our art, our Love of art, with the world. Or at least the community of Black Mountain and Asheville. ☺️

Annette's son Aziza, creates his own designs in colored marker, Ink as well as pottery.

From Annette: Mark's forte is in sound. We began to host a music night more casual than karaoke, less formal than open mic. We were calling it Flirt with Music nights. We had some professional musicians and we're about to start events for the healing arts as well as music outside.

Annette's artwork spans many mediums. Graphite, oils, acrylics, photography, digital art, pottery and ceramics. Her first and primary medium was graphite on paper portraits, that look like photographs. She's created these works over 20-30 years, while her children were growing. This was her greatest loss, as flood waters had no care for the paper that they were originally drawn on. Also, all of her work wwas from her heart.

Before Helene struck, we had just come into a 5 year mark. The year that many say is when a business starts thriving. We had felt that momentum building.

Each entity had begun to get noticed. We had worked for 5 years to create, and witness creation happening, before our very eyes. Many items for use, to set up, came from Good Will. Stepping in at just the right time to find frames to repurpose or the exact piece of furniture or lighting that we needed. That happened so many times, over the years of putting the studio gallery together. We didn't buy brand new. Annette can turn anything into what she needs

When Helene struck all of that was washed away. After all that time and money spent, we are like others here in Asheville unable to just buy everything again. Even from Goodwill. The loss of originals especially her graphite pencil art and inventory of photography, sleeved and matted (as these do not do well in water and mud) is a huge expense we cannot comfortably take on again without some help. Her missing oil paintings and destroyed pieces can be printed into photography if anything catches your eyes. Other wise they are gone.

While we shall give it all we've got, ... these are Annette's hopes, To offer auctions or sales of what survived. And this platform has three ways you can help. Financial gift, as well as receiving something for your donation in purchase or auction.

Knowing that the same faith that brought us all of those "perfect finds" will come again and bring forth the fruits of the future, we ask for your help to rebuild the business. The building is beyond repair. Therefore there will be the hunt for a better and higher ground space. In the mean time, the list of what we list in equipment for custom T-shirts of the art Annette and Aziza make, the inventory already created, the music night equipment, mics, monitors, laptop speakers, mixers and so much more, side from shelving and vintage display cases. We are in an overwhelm.

Again. This is a fund raising, auction and sales site. Please consider us for Christmas gifts. Or just something for your home.

Annettes Atelier also encompasses Healing Arts of several forms. Many styles of Massage, including Cranio-sacral Therapy, Foot Detox and Healing Foods. These were just starting to get attention as well. Which is her true spirit to heal and hug.

Being raised in and around family restaurants and decades of learning ways of healthy living, today Annette creates amazing dishes that are healing, nourishing and delightful to the palette.

Thank you for finding it in your heart to donate to this worthy cause.

Mark.

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