Hot Springs Art Trail 2026
Work by Reilly Morse
The Hot Springs Arts Trail is a daylong celebration of local artists that flows through Spring Creek to Hot Springs, stopping at galleries, local businesses, and community spaces. These stops feature the work of local artists (often with the artist present!), bluegrass music by local bands, live demonstrations, hands-on activities, and food.
The Spring Creek Community Center (SCCC) is excited to be one of the stops along the trail and to help showcase the creativity found throughout our community.
What’s happening at the SCCC for the Art Trail?
On Saturday, September 26, 2026:
10a-5p SCCC Transforms into an Art Gallery/Shop for Local Artists
Starting at 1p David Price will be live sculpting his newest bronze piece
1-3p The Bear Creek String Bandits will be playing
12-5p Interactive Kid’s/Creative’s Corner with Tony Koval
See the map above for more activities! Trust General Store just around the corner is another stop on the trail!
Artists Featured at the SCCC:
Hot Springs Art Trail 2026
Sat., September 26 from 10-5p
Join the SCCC in celebrating local arts and music and then continue on down Highway 209!
David Price
Drawing on his knowledge of the natural world, David Price works primarily in bronze to capture each subject’s anatomy, movement, and character. His award-winning sculptures have been exhibited in public gardens, galleries, and at the University of Florida and are held in numerous public and private collections.
David Price is a self-taught sculptor whose work reflects his lifelong passion for nature and conservation. Inspired as a child by the sculptures at Brookgreen Gardens, he earned a botany degree from Clemson University and explored biological illustration and garden design. His 42-year career in public gardens included 39 years at Bok Tower Gardens, where he served as Director of Horticulture and later as President.
Come watch David Price at the SCCC as he LIVE SCULPTS for his newest bronze work during the Art Trail at 1pm!
Reilly Morse
A lifelong Mississippian, Morse began painting in 1972 in the studio of Dalton Shourds King. He was inspired by direct encounters with coastal woods and maritime scenes. He pursued the plein air approach of impressionist painters then became exposed to a wider range of art movements. In 1977-78 he spent a year in Aix-en-Provence where he studied with Maggie Siner and professors at the Université d’Aix-Marseilles.
In 1980 he entered law school and practiced law for 38 years, the last 16 as a public interest lawyer. Along the way, he resumed work in plein air and studio painting. He retired in 2021, opened a studio in 2022 in western North Carolina, and moved to Spring Creek in 2025.
Andi Meyer
Andi Meyer is a Fine Artist and former art teacher currently living in Hot Springs, North Carolina, with her husband and three pups. Dedicated to capturing the quiet, passing moments that define the human experience, she translates daily life into deeply textured visual conversations.
Her expressive works explore art as an honest, intimate dialogue—rejecting rigid constructs in favor of vulnerability. Ultimately, her paintings serve as a communion: a shared, honest space where viewers can reconnect with simple experiences and where fleeting memories are gathered, extended, and preserved.
Artist Statement
"Art for me has always been a conversation between the canvas and the painter; between the artist and the viewer; an honest discussion between friends; a knowing glance between lovers; a communion of souls.
In some ways, it’s an attempt to extend those moments; to reconstruct the constellation of those simple, small shared experiences that can all be too soon forgotten."
River Rathbone
River Rathbone is a 10 year old artist who lives in Spring Creek, NC with her family, which has been in Spring Creek for nine generations. River loves creating art and all animals, including insects, nature and making memories with her family. Her favorite colors are purple, blue and pink.
River paints with both acrylic and watercolor, on canvas, paper, rocks and other media. Her animal-based art is being featured inside the Spring Creek Mobile Vet Clinic inside the SCCC.
Sandy Melton
Sandy Melton’s paintings celebrate the birds of Madison County, from year-round residents to seasonal migrants passing through the mountains of Western North Carolina. Each painting begins with a photograph taken by a friend or family member, followed by a detailed drawing and careful attention to the bird’s color, size, proportions, and habitat.
Her illustrative work reflects a larger commitment to bird and wildlife conservation, encouraging the use of native plants, reducing preventable threats such as window strikes and outdoor cats, and participating in citizen science.
To learn more about birds and conservation, Sandy recommends resources including Blue Ridge Bird Observatory, Blue Ridge Audubon, WREN Center/Laurel Community Center, North American Bluebird Society, American Bird Conservancy, The Peregrine Fund, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and All About Birds.
Rachel Goldstein
Rachel Goldstein is a photographer, artist and educator based in Asheville from Davidson, North Carolina. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009 with her MFA in Photography. She has received many awards for her work, which she exhibits throughout the region.
