Revolution Mill Announces a Vibrant Fall 2026 Event Lineup

Revolution Mill, Greensboro’s premier historic textile-mill-turned mixed-use-campus today its official Fall 2026 event schedule. From specialty craft beverages and spooky celebrations to elite regional art showcases, the Mill is the Triad's premier destination to live, work, play, and create this season.

The community is invited to mark their calendars for four signature seasonal experiences happening across the campus:

Haunts & Hops Halloween Market (Saturday, October 17 | 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM)

Spooky season officially arrives at Revolution Mill for the second annual Haunts & Hops celebration, hosted in partnership with Grown Groovy Events and Incendiary Brewing Company located in the Revolution Mill Stacks social district. Attendees are encouraged to arrive in costume for a chance to win cash prizes across several contest categories (child, adults, pets). Visitors can grab a beverage and stroll the designated Social District while shopping from a curated lineup of local makers, checking out Incendiary Brewing, Solo Taco, Grapes & Grains Tavern, Kau, and Cugino Forno, and enjoying live music. Admission is free.

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PEACE Exhibition Opening (Friday, October 30| Friday, 7:00-10:00 PM)

Celebrate local expression and creative unity at the formal opening of the PEACE Exhibition at the Central Gallery at 1100 Revolution Mill Drive. The opening reception will feature intimate artist talks, a fashion stroll showcasing wearable art inspired by themes of unity and peace, live jazz, networking, and light cocktail fare. Experience an inspiring evening celebrating creativity, connection, and the transformative power of art at the formal opening of PEACE in the Central Gallery.  This striking collective exhibition explores themes of harmony, hope, and resilience. Curated by the international award-winning Washington, D.C.-based artist and advocate, Felicia L. Reed—whose work centers on transformation and healing through art—this striking juried exhibition explores peace as an active practice of healing, resilience, compassion, and shared humanity. Bringing together local and national artists working across a variety of media, PEACE demonstrates that beauty can emerge from struggle, inspire dialogue, foster belonging, and imagine a more compassionate future. The PEACE exhibition will be on display October 30, 2026, through January 2, 2027.

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2nd Annual Creative Clayworks Pottery Sale  (Friday, November 6 & Saturday, November 7)
Hours: Friday, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM | Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Presented indoors at the 1250 Gallery, the Art Alliance of Greensboro hosts this premier juried event. It features works from over 30 professional ceramic artists and advanced hobbyists, offering everything from exquisite home decor to functional kitchenware just in time for holiday gifting. A portion of all proceeds directly benefits the Art Alliance non-profit to support community art programming. Admission is free.

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13th Annual Merry Merry Market (Wednesday, November 18 | 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM)
The Triad's ultimate boutique holiday shopping experience takes over the Colonnade and ColorWorks Event Centers at 1000 Revolution Mill Drive. The completely indoor, rain-or-shine market features 90 unique, local small businesses showcasing gourmet treats, clothing, home decor, handmade jewelry, and kids' gifts. The event includes festive holiday music and seasonal drinks (with bars open from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM). Admission is $5.00 at the door (teachers and first responders receive a $2.00 discount with an ID), and a portion of ticket sales supports BackPack Beginnings. Food and beverage venues offer breakfast, lunch and dinner options.

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Logistics & Transportation:

• Complimentary public parking is available on-site for all events. For events at the Stacks and 1250 building, find by entering via Textile Drive off Yanceyville Street (GPS: 2005 Revolution Mill Drive).

• For added convenience during the peak hours of the Merry Merry Market on November 18, the fare-free Downtown Hopper Trolley will run a special one day route continuously between overflow parking lots off Textile drive and the venue's front door so guests can easily transport their purchases.

‘Playing with colors’: GSO artist Angie the Rose breathes vivid life onto her canvases

You’ve probably seen her work before.

Broad, colorful brushstrokes that branch out from a central point and create a sprouting form of rapturous color. Bright pinks and teal greens interact and weave in and out from one another in tear-shaped droplets that form clouds or tornadoes or, on rare occasions, the artist herself.

Greensboro artist Angela Barker, known by her artist name as Angie the Rose, has been creating art since she was a child in the mountainous landscape of western North Carolina.

“Ever since I was a little girl, those were the most vivid memories I have from my childhood,” Barker says. “I was either playing in a mountain forest or making art. I was really obsessed with horses and I drew what I saw or painted what I saw back then.”

Since then, Barker has moved past representational art to the forays of abstract visualizations. Her pieces evoke images of the natural world like plants or horizons, but Barker explains that much of her work, particularly the Molecular Series for which she’s known, draws inspiration from the small molecules that make up our bodies. In July, she debuted her first solo exhibit named after the series at the Revolution Mill’s Central Gallery, and many of her pieces can be seen at area shops like Vivid Interiors, Tiny Greenhouse and Lao.

Barker says she started the Molecular Series, which is characterized by a cacophony of primary and secondary colors that branch across canvases, about six years ago during a difficult time in her life. The artist, who is now 32 years old, was going through a kind of quarter-life crisis and had just finished what she calls her Dark and Moody series, the first cohesive collection of art she made as an artist.

“It was kind of depressing,” she says about Dark and Moody. “I didn’t know what I was doing with my life but once I was done with the series and I had gotten all of this funk out of me, I realized that it was time to work with colors again. It was about embracing a healing process of sorts.”

At the onset of the series, the shapes Barker created tended to be more insular and closed off. More recently, she has been paying a woodworker to create cut-out wooden shapes to make the pieces more three-dimensional and open.

“In the beginning they were closed like a bud,” she says. “I was going through a hard time in my life, and the more I started healing, the more [the shapes] started opening up.”

Barker’s intent was to emphasize the importance of human bodies and what goes on beneath the surface. Part of that was finding a way to empower women through her art and depicting that gender or sex doesn’t limit any person’s capabilities in life.

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Food Photographer Dhanraj Emanuel Puts Secrets on the Wall

After moving to the states, Dhanraj Emanuel craved the Indian dishes of his childhood. He had never cooked before, so he mixed spices by smell to sate his nostalgia.

Emanuel comes from a family of photographers. Soon enough, the two worlds collided and Emanuel found his way into the field of food photography. Finding commercial success required leveraging food to elicit emotions like desire, FOMO, or comfort. But his new project does just the opposite.

The project is an expression of Emanuel’s experience with overwhelming grief. He uses photography to deconstruct and make that origin abstract. “Reclaiming” interacts with the symbolic nature of color, texture and form using only powdered foods and spices.

Host Frank Stasio discusses the changing landscape of food photography in the age of social media and organic food with Dhanraj Emanuel, who is also an instructor at Randolph Community College. The exhibit is on view at Revolution Mill in Greensboro through the end of 2019 with a special reception on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m.

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Artist’s daily diary of cuteness comes to Revolution Mill

A plum-colored octopus makes doughnuts in the kitchen, two tentacles whisking the contents of a bowl, another grasping vanilla extract. She cradles butter, an egg and three fresh doughnuts in her free tentacles. According to artist Jane Oliver, the image resonates with mothers who never seem to have enough hands.

Revolution Mill’s Central Gallery is showing a selection of Oliver’s latest works through Jan. 20. She earned her MFA in painting and printmaking from UNCG in 2002 where she taught drawing and art history courses for several years. From 2014 to 2016, she taught art history and introductory design at High Point University.

“One of the things you learn in school is the importance of keeping a sketchbook,” Oliver says. “A lot of students don’t like the idea when you turn it into a homework sort of thing but when it’s your own initiative, when you decide it’s important to keep continuing your exploration of different mediums, different things to draw, drawing from life, drawing from imagination, whatever, it’s for you and no one else. When I made a promise to myself last November [to draw every day], I thought: Well, how am I going to keep it?”

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Anj ponders significance of black hair and other adornments

“When my mama finished my hair she would pull the hair from the comb, sit it in her ashtray and burn it,” Anj writes in the first line of a tender poem nestled on her website beside a photograph of people with intertwined arms, their faces obscured — his wound up with gauzy cloth and hers by an encirclement of braided hair.

“Anj” is multimedia artist, writer and creative entrepreneur Ashley Johnson, a UNCG grad who grew up in Winston-Salem and who’s recently landed her first solo exhibit in the Central Gallery at Greensboro’s Revolution Mill. Reach, a selection of Johnson’s past and contemporary works that focuses on generational aspects of Southern femininity and black-hair identity, will find a home at the old textile mill through Aug. 12.

“The crux of my work and the crux of who I am today is tied to the practices of black hair,” she says.

Johnson’s mother chemically straightened her hair for as long as she can remember. She recalls picking at scabs from burns the relaxer’s hydroxides seared into her scalp, and years of back-of-the-mind curiosity about the natural layer of growth underneath.

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