Compassion & Cannibalism: A Spiritual Guide to Recycling
Tracey Morgan Gallery is hosting an immersive, interactive installation by WNC artist and poet Ted Pope, who employs recycled, everyday materials that would otherwise…
Imagine Dragons Riding on Your Hip or Circling Your Waist
Lyn Lyndall makes it possible to keep a pet dragon by your side. The artist’s hand-tooled leather bags are sculpted with the bodies of…
How to Wear the Great Realization
In 2021, 47.4 million American workers quit their jobs. Sala Menaya-Merritt was one of them. The Great Resignation wave followed the 2020 “Great Realization”…
In a Minor Key
“My work mainly concerns mood and feeling,” explains painter Shawn Krueger. “I tend to lean into the somber mood and, sadly, the times seem…
She’s Producing a Whole Different Kind of Reality Show
Jaime Byrd always was ahead of the action. She started writing music as a kid and was performing in nightclubs, she says, by age…
A Well-Made Scenic Overlook: Inside the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Established in 1930 to help boost employment, and thus income, during the Great Depression, the Southern Highland Craft Guild continues to thrive. By…
Popular TEDx Talk is About Talking Without Talking
Talking through conflict is supposed to help. But Ginger Huebner, founding director of Roots + Wings School of Art and Design, observes that more…
Paint on the Right Doors and You Might Find Them Opening
Had he followed the money, Aaron Fields’ ongoing path to becoming a full-time artist could have gone in an entirely different direction. “In sixth…
The Owl Won’t Blink, and Other Wild Stories
The eyes of the animals in Jackson Hammack’s paintings don’t blink. They stare straight at you, even through you, as though to say, “I…
Leading You Down the Fairy Path, Torch in Hand
The magical creatures in Marti Svoboda-Sidelnick’s intricately composed glass pieces are real. After all, you can see and touch them. As the artist views…
20 Years, 20,000 Square Feet, One Big Key to Success
The F.W. Woolworth building, located at the corner of Haywood Street and Battery Park in downtown Asheville, was constructed in 1938 and has since…
Two Galleries are Bettis Than One
Mark Bettis worked in computer animation before pursuing a number of other successful careers, including advertising and real estate. Through it all, though, he…
