From Her Safe Space to Yours, With Love
Mary Farmer dwells deep in encaustic, a layered, two-dimensional (but sculptural) painting medium that uses beeswax and damar resin. Following a stay in rehab…
Granted, Many Artists Could use a Boost
If Plato and Aristotle were right about art imitating life, then 2020 has been a rough and tumble year of uncertainty in the arts….
Her Contemporary Oils Go Back Hundreds of Years
LaKisha Blount, a self-described Affrilachian painter based in Gerton, NC, in Henderson County, focuses on visual documentation and preservation of Black, Southern, and Appalachian…
Furniture Maker Never Took Tradition Sitting Down
During one extraordinarily difficult period in her life, Annie Evelyn lost her stepfather, her father, and got divorced in the span of two years….
The Craft Legacy Series: Gale on Schleicher
Pam Granger Gale is a local marbling artist and instructor who owns Majik Studios, a working art venue and teaching center in…
Lead Artists for Mural Announced
The Asheville Area Arts Council on July 3 announced the three artists picked to administer a Black Lives Matter mural, to be sited downtown…
Local Group Promoting Diversity in the Arts Explodes in Membership
“It takes a lot for people to look up from their own personal lives and start thinking about their community as a whole,” says…
The Craft Legacy Series: Cox on Davidson
Hardy Davidson, whose ancestors settled in WNC around the time of the Revolutionary War, was a mostly self-taught woodcarving artist born in 1900. He…
Librarians Everywhere Look Her Up
Karen Hardy is a fine artist who works with the eye of a mad scientist. “When paper is made, it starts with pulp floating…
How to Gain Serious Momentum on Flat Tires
The rubber hit the road when former anthropology professor Dr. Alysia Fischer began experimenting with discarded inner tubes. Veering from academia to the full-time…