Art Birds for the Apocalypse
Memes everywhere by mid October (when November Asheville Made went to press) were riffing on R.E.M.’s cheerfully dire laundry-list song “It’s the End of…
Throwing Clay is How He Got Through the Day — and Landed on a Career
John Cummings, diagnosed with ADHD as a child, found that art kept him busy and out of trouble. He recalls working with clay when…
Painter’s Art is Programmed to Make the World Better
Leslie Rowland’s love of science and the responsibility she feels to the natural world led her to a Master’s degree in environmental policy and…
Sometimes You Find Your Sense of Place Once You Leave
Suzanne Saunders, raised in Leicester, first began to feel the artist within herself when she participated in a summer program for gifted and talented…
Asheville Art Museum and BMCM+AC
Launched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,…
Gallery Addresses Big Issues in Bright Hues
“As with most of the commercial property we own, it seems to begin with Randy wanting a different studio,” says Hedy Fischer, speaking of…
You’re Never Too Young to Start Obsessing Over Your Art Collection
Michael and Hanna Manes are decades younger than most of their art-collecting peers, and already their nine-month-old son, Harvey, is involved in the family…
Handmade: Crafts for Home & Holiday
Sherry Masters of Art Connections, an ambassador of Western North Carolina’s fine-craft legacy who leads bespoke tours and administers local events for annual American…
Her Superpower is Visualizing a 300-Hour Project in Miniature
Noël Yovovich says she was born to be an artist, and certainly she was raised in an uncommon atmosphere, in a rural area of…
Brushes With War Turned Into a Life Painting Portraits
Painter Skip Rohde did not expect to end up in the Smithsonian. But when the artist and veteran naval officer completed his “Faces of…
Assemblage Artist Receives New Recognition at VA Center
Featured last September in Asheville Made and now represented by Trackside Studios in the River Arts District, Deborah Anderson is an assemblage artist whose…
College Football Player Tackles Glassmaking With Characteristic Intensity
Ohio native Samuel Spees was introduced to glassmaking while pursuing a degree in mathematics and playing football at Centre College in Kentucky. He became…
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