Ten Facts That Illustrate the Enduring Light of the Arts & Crafts Movement
Arts & Crafts was the first deliberate maker movement, emphasizing a return to utilitarian, handmade goods. 2. Spanning the late 1800s through the early…
Comfort, Joy, and a New Leash on Life
Decluttering influencer Marie Kondo blew up in 2019 after she told us to ditch every item in our homes that didn’t “spark joy.” An…
Ten Reasons to Be Thankful (that Holiday Shopping is Now Conflated with Leaf Season)
Back in early October, with record highs being set daily, Asheville meteorologist Hunter Ward predicted that all the dryness would yield a brilliant leaf…
How Makers of All Kinds Reclaimed the World’s Vilified Creatures
Those once-feared flying mammals don’t want to nest in your hair — bats are too busy gobbling mosquitoes with superpower abandon. Building protective bat…
A Bunch of Ways to Go BIG in September
Last fall, Steve Geddes of New Hampshire made national news for growing the biggest pumpkin in America. His record-cracking curcubit weighed in at 2,528…
Sixty is the New Fifty, and Other Reflections on Heritage Festival History
If Asheville’s rowdy street fair Bele Chere hadn’t ended in 2013, it would have turned 40 this year. Bele Chere showcased dozens of Asheville-area…
So Undead: Ten Things You Might Not Know About 100-Year-Old Bauhaus
Though the word Bauhaus is German for “building house” and the name became associated with sleek-lined modern architecture, the original school in Germany (est….
Traveling Makers Take Wing for the Festival Season
There’s something about the official onset of summer that prompts local revelers to step up their costume game, ascending stilts in sweeping Stevie Nicks-esque…
Tradition is Breeze-Tested at the Appalachian Women’s Museum
Where do quilts hang out today? If you’re a collector, either of antique-patterned or free-form modern quilts, you’ve probably got your favorite specimens displayed…
Spring Forward by Learning Your Denim Terminology
T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month,” and we assume he was talking about tax deadlines or late snowstorms. But maybe the poet…