Noir Collective AVL

Noir Collective AVL, a Black-owned boutique, art gallery, and bookstore featuring Black entrepreneurs, is located on “The Block” within the retail spaces of YMI Cultural Center, one of the oldest operating African American cultural centers in the United States. With YMI as the hub, “The Block” was a thriving Black business district within one of Asheville’s Black communities, East End / Valley Street neighborhood. And like many Black neighborhoods that thrived during Jim Crow South, this neighborhood, along with others in Asheville and around the country, was devastated by programs like Urban Renewal. While we cannot change the past, we can look forward to an inclusive future

39 S Market St Suite C, Asheville, NC, 28801

(828) 484-2323 · noircollectiveavl@gmail.com