Upcoming Appearances

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Our Programs

Coming in Fall of 2026, Offline Arts Institute (O.A.I.) will be an after-school space in Asheville offering teens a place to study and practice multimedia arts in an analog environment. We’ll offer instruction in the following tracks of study: [literature and publishing] ; [sound design and audio storytelling] ; [documentary film] ; [fiber arts and costume].

Where We Are

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Youth Advisory Council

O.A.I. is currently accepting applications for the Youth Advisory Council. Councilors will steer programming, evaluate instruction, plan special events, and design a marketing strategy.

Community Partnerships

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Board of Directors

Elliot Reed, founder of Offline Arts Institute, is a writer and educator living in Asheville, NC with his wife and child. He is the author of A Key to Treehouse Living.

Trevor Crown is a fiction writer and the Senior Manager of Volunteer Innovation & Assessment for 826LA, a nonprofit empowering under-resourced students in Los Angeles through free creative writing education. His stories have appeared in The Panacea Review, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Humanities Review, Glimmer Train, Hobart, and more.

John Gholston Moran is the founding editor of The Panacea Review. His writing has appeared in Subtropics, Southern Cultures, and Little Star, among other journals. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Stanford and an MFA in fiction from Brown.

Arthur Thuot is the facilitator at StoryCorp, a company that delivers storytelling workshops to business and government. Previously, he served as a project director for a media agency in Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Marie McGrath: Fundraiser, Writer, and Educator. Marie lives in Washington, D.C.

Contact

Elliot Reed, Program Director
Offline Arts Institute
email: <[email protected]>

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