Martha Johnson + Sylvia McCollum
Keep your mask on (it’s mandatory) and enjoy the work of two resident makers at downtown’s sprawling, art-filled Woolworth Walk this month. Marsha Johnson…
Ralph Burns, A Time Before: Asheville and Beyond
If downtown Asheville seemed desolate this spring, just time-travel back to 1978 and consider the shadowy canyons of College, Haywood, Walnut, and nearby streets….
Lead Artists for Mural Announced
The Asheville Area Arts Council on July 3 announced the three artists picked to administer a Black Lives Matter mural, to be sited downtown…
His Words Are the World’s Faces
Dustin Spagnola, an Asheville-based muralist of widespread acclaim, has never been shy about using art to address social issues. When protests erupted in Asheville…
Freedom’s Just Another Word for No Rules Left to Follow
Israeli-born Raquel Egosi had a lot of paths to choose from — and she followed many of them. “A city girl in the Tel…
Her Contemporary Oils Go Back Hundreds of Years
LaKisha Blount, a self-described Affrilachian painter based in Gerton, NC, in Henderson County, focuses on visual documentation and preservation of Black, Southern, and Appalachian…
Furniture Maker Never Took Tradition Sitting Down
During one extraordinarily difficult period in her life, Annie Evelyn lost her stepfather, her father, and got divorced in the span of two years….
Her Future as an Artist was Lurking in the Cards
Cathy Nichols knows pigs can’t fly. But when confronted with a life-sized sow doused in a glitter veneer and suspended by a bright red…
Couple’s Passion for Glass Art is Unbreakable
Glass art has a grip on passionate collectors Merrily Orsini and Rick Heath that’s anything but fragile. The Louisville transplants connected because of their…
Stalwart Gallery Has Framed a “New Normal” for Decades
Picture a downtown empty and desolate, with mostly boarded-up businesses. Asheville Gallery of Art President Sue Dolamore isn’t referring to the early days…
The Craft Legacy Series: Gale on Schleicher
Pam Granger Gale is a local marbling artist and instructor who owns Majik Studios, a working art venue and teaching center in…
Local Group Promoting Diversity in the Arts Explodes in Membership
“It takes a lot for people to look up from their own personal lives and start thinking about their community as a whole,” says…
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