A Collage Career Requires No Entrance Exams
When Karen Paquette was 11 years old in Faribault, Minnesota, she entered a national poster-making contest sponsored by the Humane Society. “I went to…
Living Her Best Life in Layers
Her parents and grandparents were all artists, her father taught her how to use various artistic tools at a young age, and she grew…
Inventive High Country Sculptor Puts the “Tile” in Reptile
The studio of ceramic, textile, and sculptural artist Shae Bishop is in rural Spruce Pine. But the multimedia artist, who’s also an amateur herpetologist,…
Theriault on Gray
{Legacy Craft Series} Ceramic sculptor Verdelle Gray was born in 1918 and moved to Asheville in 1962, opening her own art studio. She continued…
Cutting Edge of Local Style
An energetic openness to people and possibility distinguishes “edgy art” connoisseur Larry Hopkins, who owns ananda hair studio. The Broadway flagship salon and its…
Glass Artist Answered the Ultimate Casting Call
Alex Gabriel Bernstein’s style is an original fusion of dissimilar elements. He’ll grind steel and let the metallic sparks shower against hot glass, fusing…
She Turned to Feathers When Local Landscapes Didn’t Fly
After 35 years as a working artist, doing commissions in watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pen and ink, Laura Richardson had every intention of retiring….
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
New Work by Connie Bostic The local grand dame of modern visual art, Connie Bostic owned cutting-edge Zone one gallery in downtown Asheville in…
Art is Everywhere You Look (and Eat and Sleep)
Though the main gallery area is small, 350 square feet, in truth all of the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Historic Biltmore Village is a…
Annual Multi-Kiln Opening Celebration
Since The Village Potters Clay Center will be unable to host their annual Multi-Kiln Opening Celebration in person, they’ll present virtual kiln openings, including…
Banjo Luthier Picked the Right Time to Make Old-Fashioned Instruments
Pisgah Banjos builds handcrafted bracket-style banjos whose lineage can be traced to America’s Industrial Revolution. Founder Patrick David Sawyer and his crew of four…
The Meaning of Life Might be Written in a Produce Sign
Chelsea Ragan applauds the everyday. “Domestic life is not thought of in an artistic way,” says the illustrator, mother of a 2- and 5-year-old….
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