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  • donate ❤️
  • grants
  • programs
    • appalachian potters market
    • beyond 1842
    • comfort quilts
    • chapters scrapbooking club
    • crescendo! Piano in the Classroom
    • Día de Muertos
    • Foothills Community Band
    • micropolitan film festival
    • mcdowell children's theatre
    • mcdowell quilt trail
    • shop
    • (year round) resources
    • (helene) community resources
    • visit
  • 2025 calendar
  • about
  • gallery
  • accessibility
  • partners
  • contact us
50 S Main St
Marion, NC 28762

(828) 652 - 8610
​[email protected]


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our blast from the past page!

...how old is the MACA building?

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Louis Wall Collection 1920s
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Eckenrod Heritage Collection year unknown, circa 1940s
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Early 1960s
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Early 1970s

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Eckenrod Studios
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Eckenrod Studios
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While there are no longer "lot's of pretty girls available" at our location (please do not ask) we are very transparent about our history and are always looking for community insight and stories about our big, old building and the history it holds.

MACA was founded in 1972 as McDowell Arts and Crafts Association and later incorporated as McDowell Arts Council Association. 
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1975 (colorized)

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circa 1984 - In the mid-late 1980s MACA lived in the building where Mica Town Brewing currently resides and we had this awesome mural. Artist, Lee Lynch

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1986
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1986
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1990
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2006
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2016
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Kimberly Wright, 2019

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2020

from our archives, scrapbooks, notes, and stories:

Directions

McDowell Arts Council Association

The arts are for everyone.

MCDOWELL ARTS COUNCIL ASSOCIATION
​Tuesday through Friday 12-5pm • Saturdays 11-4pm
​All other times by appointment.
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Street Address: 50 S MAIN ST MARION NC
Mailing Address: PO BOX 1387

Phone Number: 828-652-8610
Text Accessible Google Number: 828-559-1404
Email Address: [email protected]

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McDowell Arts Council Association acknowledges that we live and work on occupied land. McDowell County is the native territory of the Catawba and Cherokee people.
  • home
  • donate ❤️
  • grants
  • programs
    • appalachian potters market
    • beyond 1842
    • comfort quilts
    • chapters scrapbooking club
    • crescendo! Piano in the Classroom
    • Día de Muertos
    • Foothills Community Band
    • micropolitan film festival
    • mcdowell children's theatre
    • mcdowell quilt trail
    • shop
    • (year round) resources
    • (helene) community resources
    • visit
  • 2025 calendar
  • about
  • gallery
  • accessibility
  • partners
  • contact us