2025 Board of Directors
June Vengoechea
JUNE VENGOECHEA - SHORT BIO
JUNE VENGOECHEA is a highly respected leader in the arts, craft, and civic community of Black Mountain North Carolina.
In 1995, June and her husband, an accomplished jewelry designer and metalsmith, co-founded Visions of Creation, a premier fine craft jewelry gallery in downtown Black Mountain. For nearly three decades the gallery served as a beloved destination for handmade, artist-designed jewelry until the couple retired and closed their brick and mortar gallery in 2022.
June has devoted decades to advancing the region’s craft and cultural landscape. She has contributed to numerous arts-related event-planning committees, and from 1998 to 2015 played a central role in producing Black Mountain’s popular Holly Jolly holiday celebration.
She has served on the boards of Piedmont Craftsmen (Winston-Salem) and Carolina Designer Craftsmen (Raleigh), and contributed to numerous arts-related event-planning committees. June and her husband are both members of The Southern Highland Craft Guild, a prestigious non-profit educational organization which supports and promotes traditional and contemporary crafts from the Southern Appalachian region, June and her husband were founding members and original board members of Ariel Gallery, Asheville’s enduring cooperative fine crafts gallery. She is also the creator of the annual Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade a whimsical family-friendly tradition that will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2026 and has become one of Black Mountain’s signature community events in the Fall, along with the Sourwood Festival held during the Summer which she also supports through committee participation.
Through her visionary leadership, longtime volunteer service, and unwavering commitment to the arts, June Vengoechea has made a lasting contribution to the cultural vitality of Black Mountain and Western North Carolina.
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