Reflections of a Year
When Ursula Gullow takes a notion, it turns into an obsession, and eventually an installation. While the Asheville-based painter and instructor makes many detours,…
Featured Woodworker: Paul Eisenhauer
Exhibit runs through Dec. 31 For the last month of the year, Gallery 17 at Foundation Woodworks is presenting pieces by Burnsville-based maker Paul…
When the Mailbox Holds Epiphanies Instead of Flyers
Highway 64 is the primary artery connecting Hendersonville to Brevard. It intersects Etowah’s few stoplights, patters past Transylvania County farmland, and finally empties near…
There’s No Time Like the Present to Carve the Look of Millennia
For decades, painter and television host Bob Ross reworked what he called “happy accidents” — harsh brushstrokes, paint drips, botched blending — into clouds…
Extraordinary Finds and Times
Exhibit runs through Jan. 31 An ongoing exhibit at the Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League that opened in late October, “Extraordinary Finds and Times”…
Marauding Beasts are Part of the Landscape at North Asheville Sculpture Garden
Susan Turner’s magical tract of land in the middle of the historic Grove Park Inn neighborhood begged for more than a garden — and…
Meet Her in the Garden of Unearthly Delights
Julie Armbruster is grateful for her freed-up time in 2020. Never mind the pandemic — her world has always been weird. The illustrator’s drawings,…
No Time Like the Present to Go to Another World
Kreh Mellick’s folkloric fine art, often a collaged mix of gouache and cut paper, feels at once nostalgic and totally of the moment. There’s…
Keeping It So Real Even the Paint is Handmade
Across America, a culture war is raging, says painter John Mac Kah. But he’s not referencing current social movements or political turmoil. “There’s a…
Architect Sets Up House in the “Beginner’s Mind”
In 1995, following a long career as an architect, Werner Haker — born in Germany and raised partly in New York City — moved…
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…
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