Plein air” painting, French for “open air,” describes the practice of painting outdoors. The Smokies offer options from ...

But Babak, like the 18 other artists participating in the fourth annual Plein Air Smokies event—this year hosted by the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont—found ample inspiration while ...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Ansted, West Virginia lies a 270-acre masterpiece that seems to have leapt straight from an artist’s canvas – Hawks Nest State Park, where Mother Nature flexes her ...