The Cherokee County Arts Council presents General Consensus, a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Craig Marshal Wilson, opening Friday, August 7, with a free public reception.

General Consensus gathers the people, places, and things Wilson treasures. The work draws on Southern folk traditions, Saturday morning heroes and villains, Appalachian landscapes, imagined worlds, and discarded materials remade into something new. The face jug, a ceramic form with deep roots in the South, runs through the show. In his artist statement, Wilson writes that the form "has become a kind of iconography of humanity for my work."

Wilson grew up in the Georgia foothills, where searching lakeshores for driftwood and fishing lures gave him a treasure hunter's eye that still shapes his work. He is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of North Georgia, where he has taught painting and drawing since 2007, and he exhibits regionally, nationally, and internationally. See more at www.craigwilsonart.com.

Join us at the opening reception to meet the artist and see the work. If you cannot make the opening, the show is on view through August 31 during regular gallery hours.

Date: Friday, August 7, 2026 (on view through August 31)
Time: Reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: CCAC Center Gallery, 33 Valley River Avenue, Murphy, NC 28906
Admission: Free and open to the public
Presented by: Cherokee County Arts Council, with Gallery Sponsor EdwardJones
Contact: Rachel Watson, director@cherokeeartscouncil.org, (828) 233-5624

This exhibit is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.