Village Art & Craft Fair Celebrates 50 Years
Late local visionary John Cram, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, launched the Village Art & Craft Fair 50 years ago, when Asheville was still a…
League of Their Own Group Holds First Fiber Show
By: Margaret Butler The Art League of Henderson County just got more touchable — even as it expands its reach at an unprecedented rate….
The Only Gallery is the Back Story
The long reach of the COVID-19 pandemic has left few areas of life untouched — even if those areas happen to be off the…
Warm Hands, Hot Wax, Happy Artist
Local multimedia artist Kate Colclaser had a successful pottery studio in Blowing Rock, NC, before moving to Asheville. But the winters there can be…
Bird is the Word (And You Can Take That Literally)
Local painter and ceramicist Kate Coleman doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t an artist. “All children are artists,” she believes, “and I never…
Artsy Polymath Got the Fever to Create and Never Recovered
When asked if he’d be willing to sit for an interview, Jerald Pope had this to say: “What aspect of my pretty spectacular life…
Pastoral Pottery from a True Believer
Waynesville ceramicist Laurey-Faye Dean grew up in a fundamentalist preacher’s family, around churchgoers who were true believers. Then, as a child, she found the…
The Muse Who Demands Down Time
In school, says Zander Stefani, he learned what makes up the basis of any good painting: “line and contrast and variations in texture, color,…
Reporting from Michelangelo’s Journey to Mars
When he was 15, Nick Raynolds decided he needed to see someone naked. But, unlike most teenage boys, his intentions were entirely professional. “I…
Professional Crafts Program puts Local Talent to Work
Four years ago, Annah Bible-Sullivan found her fate in a spoon. She was a junior at Asheville High School, looking for an elective to…
The Yellow Clay Road Leads to Leicester
“While attending Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis, I carried my supplies around in an old doctor’s bag, prompting my pals to…
Flow Gallery and the Beauty of Keeping Current
One of the world’s most ancient rivers, the French Broad began pushing its way northward through what is now Marshall hundreds of millions of…
