Career Photographer Has a Lucrative Nesting Instinct
Since she was a young child helping her father in his darkroom, through middle and high school shooting yearbook and newspaper pictures, working her…
Art Goes Forward at the Newly Relocated Momentum Gallery
Three expansive plate glass windows front the 100-year-old brick building that is home to Momentum Gallery on the busy Broadway-Biltmore artery that moves vehicles…
Jewelry Artist Struck Silver With Symbolic Rings and Pendants
When Mary Timmer was in high school in Chapel Hill, she took a clay class; rather than a bowl or a mug, she made…
Painter’s Art is Programmed to Make the World Better
Leslie Rowland’s love of science and the responsibility she feels to the natural world led her to a Master’s degree in environmental policy and…
Sometimes You Find Your Sense of Place Once You Leave
Suzanne Saunders, raised in Leicester, first began to feel the artist within herself when she participated in a summer program for gifted and talented…
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…
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….
A Certain Vulnerability is Set in Stone
Amy Medford has two works of sculpture titled Metamorphosis, both male figures. One she carved from a block of white ordinario marble: a solid…
Where There’s Wood, There’s a Way
When José Pablo Barreda comes upon a broken chair set on a curb, he stops his car and pulls over. Where others see trash,…
As Cosplay Took Off, So Did Her Career
When it comes to Sarah Lambert’s wearable wings, birds of a featherdon’t necessarily flock together. “Phoenix Out of the Ashes,” for example, is a…