About That Blue Period
Seth Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and went to art school at East Carolina University before he discovered blues guitar and decamped…
Carving Out a Place for the Endangered Red Wolf
Asheville Made’s February issue went to press too soon to report the predictions of any national or local celebrity groundhogs, though it’s safe to…
Blooms
Asheville Gallery of Art Spring can’t come too soon this year. By late February, the very earliest flowers should be up. And Asheville Gallery…
Three Exhibits
Upstairs Artspace Upstairs Artspace opens its 44th season this month with three timely exhibits. Even When It’s Dark features paintings and photographs by Doug…
Picking Up the Pieces
Recycled art may go down in history as the official medium of the COVID-19 era, since it makes great use of spare time and…
Reflections of a Year
When Ursula Gullow takes a notion, it turns into an obsession, and eventually an installation. While the Asheville-based painter and instructor makes many detours,…
Local Arts Titan Remembered
John Cram, the cultural underwriter of Asheville’s modern-day renaissance, passed away Oct. 26, at age 72, from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Arriving from Wisconsin…
Art Birds for the Apocalypse
Memes everywhere by mid October (when November Asheville Made went to press) were riffing on R.E.M.’s cheerfully dire laundry-list song “It’s the End of…
Asheville Art Museum and BMCM+AC
Launched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,…
Handmade: Crafts for Home & Holiday
Sherry Masters of Art Connections, an ambassador of Western North Carolina’s fine-craft legacy who leads bespoke tours and administers local events for annual American…