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Enter to Win!
🌳 Echoes of the Forest Spring Raffle
The Prizes — Valued at $500!
🥄 Serving Spoon — American Hornbeam from the Toe River in Celo, NC. Crafted by Paul Eisenhauer, former director of the Wharton Esherick Museum and Blue Ridge Craft Trails artisan.
🧀 Charcuterie Board — Black Walnut from Weaverville, NC. Crafted by Tony Reed of Reed Creek Creatives, on display at Resurrection Studios Collective in Asheville.
🪵 Cocktail Table — Black Walnut from Flat Rock, NC. Built by Robert Garren of Idlewild Furniture Co., a generational Appalachian woodworker who returned home to WNC to carry the craft forward.
Where the Funds Go
🏫 An Echo at North Buncombe Elementary School honoring two brothers lost during Hurricane Helene.
🎨 An Echo at Resurrection Studios Collective — studio and gallery space for artists displaced from the River Arts District by the storm.
🎟️ How to Enter$10 per entry. Enter as many times as you like. One entry per ticket.
🏆 Winner announced Sunday, April 19 at 5 PM on social media and notified by email.
About
Echoes of the Forest is a 501(c)(3) organization that takes salvaged Hurricane Helene trees and repurposes them into art by woodworkers and local artists to educate the public about this significant, geological, 1000-year event about forestry and our area. Proceeds will benefit woodworkers and artists, and a community that suffered.
Helene in Numbers
In late September 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, causing extensive tree damage across multiple counties.
Extent
of
Damage
40%
Approximately 40% of trees in Buncombe County were damaged or destroyed by Helene, not including Asheville's tree cover.
39 western North Carolina counties were affected
78%
78% of the damage occurred on private lands.
Approximate Impact on
National Forests
821, 906
821,906 acres of forestland damaged.
Economic impact on western
North Carolina
$59.6 B
Estimated at
$59.6 billion.
Find the Echoes
Explore the locations of Echoes of the Forest installations across Western North Carolina — handcrafted public art created from Hurricane Helene–salvaged timber by Appalachian artisans.
Current Installations:
River Arts District
Benches by Chester Shuey / Appalachian Joinery
NC Arboretum
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A bench by Chester Shuey / Appalachian Joinery
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"Tea for Two" bench by Mark Oliver
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"Shelly the Box Turtle" by Mike Ayers / Whetstone Woodworks
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Winter Lights installations "Water in Motion" and "Enchanted Forest" by Mike Ayers / Whetstone Woodworks
Biltmore Forest Town Hall
Fireplace mantel by Kwadwo Som-Pimpong / Crafted Glory
Cane Creek Park, Fletcher, NC
"Soccer Cub" by Mike Ayers / Whetstone Woodworks
Burial Beer Co. Forestry Camp
Six handcrafted white oak aging barrels by Appalachian Cooperage / Taylor Stave, from Helene-felled timber sourced by Matt Christie / Green River Woods
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