Finding Art Made Him Feel Better, but this isn’t Feel-Good Art
Years ago, DeWayne Barton totally redirected his life. “I wanted to represent love,” he says. He came back to his hometown, but he never…
Print is Far From Dead — Just Ask Asheville BookWorks (and Steamroller Operators)
It’s safe to say that Laurie Corral is the unofficial matriarch of Western North Carolina’s book-arts and print scene. In 2004, she founded Asheville…
He Gave His Love an Apple Tree, She Carved It Into Spoon
He won her heart with an apple tree. “People bring me wood all the time,” says Becky Beyer of Barnardsville. “That’s how my boyfriend…
Book Artist Wants to Re-Plot How Viewers Consume Content
Growing up in the 1950s, Kristy Higby witnessed Brown v. Board of Education overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. She saw Jim Crow incite race riots…
Sometimes a Googly Eye Sees More Clearly
As a child in the 1950s, Julia Burr hammered boards and crossed wires, constructing forts for her plastic cowboys and army-green soldiers. “I was…
Sculptor’s Exotic Hybrid Species Won’t Become Endangered Anytime Soon
Call it what you will — avian kitsch or flighty folk — ’s “Roller Derby Toucan” is a breed of its own. The wooden,…