Jewelry Artist Struck Silver With Symbolic Rings and Pendants
When Mary Timmer was in high school in Chapel Hill, she took a clay class; rather than a bowl or a mug, she made…
Where the Good Vibes Reign
Is it something akin to a vortex that lures visitors to Red House? Susan Hanning, an oil and acrylic painter and president of the…
Photographer Shifts His Focus Between Goats and Iron Horses
Jeffrey Stoner became enchanted by photography during childhood, but only began marketing his work in 2004. The images sold well, and in 2007 he…
Sculptor Only Operates Under His Own Influence
By the time Richard Flottemesch decided to make art his life’s work, in his junior year at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore native…
Artist/Activist Gets the Word Out in Visual Language
Multimedia sculptor, painter, and all-around creative/community dynamo Tarah Singh believes artists have a responsibility to document history. She uses the term “herstorian” to describe…
The Art of Staying Inside the Box
Jackson Martin is a contrarian: He believes rules beget innovation rather than stifle it. “Parameters are something I give my students all the time,”…
Portraits of Imagination
A collection from new members at Asheville Gallery of Art — Chris Bell, Bill George, Hyn Patty, and Patricia Veatch — takes portraiture beyond…
Helping Local Artists Make Sense of the Shadows
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife and muse of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, lived as if she were weightless. In a high-school journal, she…
Joe Zoeller + Element Tree Essentials
For the month of March, Woolworth Walk’s FW Gallery will feature local contemporary artist Joe Zoeller. Although Zoeller’s acrylic paintings do not conform to…
How to Ollie Into the Fine-Art World
The year 1989 was a kickflip to the ankle for lifelong skateboarder George Peterson. Stuck in his sleepy hometown of Bishop, California (population 3,747),…
The Struggle is Real, But So is the Sculpture
When Peter Dallos made his first metal sculpture, in 1998, the work’s welded and coruscated steel, battered but resilient, seemed to crystallize much of…
Art Helped Him Answer the Million-Dollar Question
Onicas Gaddis taught himself to draw, and he learned how to paint from abstract expressionist Sarah Carlisle Towery, an alumnus of Black Mountain College…
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