The Tree Gives and the Painter Gives Back
Many self-made successful businesspeople like to humble-brag that they reached their lofty perch working from the ground up. Artist Tebbe Davis has a slightly…
Where Communal Potting and Individual Expression are Both Lit
It took less than one semester at Virginia Tech for Joey Sheehan to trade graphic design for a studio-art major, and then swiftly fall…
An Instructor’s Early Shade Didn’t Keep This Artist Out of the Light
“When people look at my work, the remark I most often hear is how well I use color.” Cathyann Burgess laughs softly as she…
How to Make a Movie and Still Have a Life
Had Brad Hoover not wearied of a long commute down the mountain, the Asheville School of Film might never have come to fruition. The…
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…