Founded and located in Southern Appalachia's Town of Mars Hill, NC ‍ ‍Modern Local ARTSOUP
Artists Reviving Their

Society’s Original Universal Potential

is a nonprofit arts education organization whose mission is to facilitate your vital contribution to defining our culture locally, regionally, nationally, and worldwide.

Throughout the history of mankind, the making and sharing of art has inspired individuals, bonded communities, and healed societies, thereby lifting humanity to its highest potential. Just as we learn about past cultures from discovering artifacts specific to their existence there and then, we are actively defining our current culture through creative expression here and now. Our art, in all its forms, will transcend time and place to define who we are as a people while we inhabit the temporal world.

ARTSOUP provides a forum for our community; a place to make, teach, appreciate, discuss, and celebrate the ultimate timeless transcendence of our particular existence, as we live it in real time together.

“The free, exploring mind of the individual

is the most valuable thing in the world."

- John Steinbeck