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In 2016, Number 7 Arts was faced with the biggest problem in its historical past. The landlord was contemplating promoting the space and the ever-increasing lease was making it difficult to serve the artists and the neighborhood. When a major space in downtown Brevard turned obtainable for hire the group acted on it instantly. With assistance from the Transylvania Community Arts Council and a newly formed “Friends of Number 7 Arts”, more than $70,000 was donated to fund the renovation of the house in the historic turn-of-the-century McMinn Building at the nook of Main and Broad Street. Artist members, spouses, and volunteers rallied collectively, forming work committees, and began the arduous renovation course of. It took eleven weeks and more than three,000 hours of volunteer work, but in January of 2017, Number 7 Arts opened its doorways again and welcomed the basic public into 2,200 sq. feet of fantastically designed art house.

This famous sculpture was presumed by Auguste Robin based on the theme on the divine comedy of Dante. This sculpture appeared as nude with heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo and percept the wisdom of poetry. The thinker was actually destined to render Dante’s epic in entrance …