The Skateboard as Artistic Springboard
As a mainstream pastime it’s waxed and waned for many decades, but skateboarding as an obsession always re-emerges, and along with it, the singular…
Thanksgiving How You Want It
“Life is to be enjoyed,” painter Peggy King insists on her website. And we certainly enjoy her series of oil paintings Wine Monkeys, which…
Today’s Bouquet
Oil painter Rebecca King Hawkinson, who trained decades ago with fresco master Ben Long IV, enjoys a wide base of collectors who seek her…
Celebrating West Asheville Style
A few months ago, local painter Gus Cutty created a likeness of iconic drag queen RuPaul on the west exterior wing of the Bledsoe…
Permanent Buzz
A project begun two years ago has weathered all the chaos and postponements of 2020 and emerged in a sweet spot. A few weeks…
More Lasting Than Liner Notes: An Album Blooms Into an Art Book
By: Alli Marshall Asheville-based folk healer/musician Jeff Firewalker Schmitt and keyboardist John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood) met deep in the Amazon jungle, where…
Pop Tart Life
Katrina Chenevert, whose eponymous gallery in Biltmore Village recently launched, talks about the venue’s “very soft opening” last winter, which was little more than…
Art Imitates Literary Life
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Western North Carolina resident Delia Owens, has broken all kinds of sale records for a debut novel. Perched on…
A Pattern of Rejuvenation
There’s no shortage of reasons to take a drive in North Carolina’s High Country in the thick of spring, but administrators at Beech Mountain…
A Clear Moment for Momentum
Having sustained its, yes, momentum, through two years of suspense, construction, and a world-changing pandemic, Momentum Gallery opened its new 15,000-square-foot space in March….