She Felt Her Way into Fiber Art
Artist Tracey McCracken Palmer, who grew up in Western North Carolina, has drawn and painted for as long as she can remember. But, she…
The Reckoning in Pictures: Local Photographer Releases The Road to Unforgetting
In a year of literary reckoning that brought us Maud Newton’s ripple-causing Ancestor Trouble, about the harsh social implications of family legacy, writer, photographer,…
Here and Now
Citron Gallery presents Here and Now, a group exhibit featuring new works by eight national and international artists. Their styles range from representational to…
A Trip Down the Serpentine Path
Although Susan Query has been creating art her whole life, she studied psychology as an undergrad, holds a PhD in health education, and focused…
Our Ecology, Shifting Our Gaze Inward
Bevelyn Afor Ukah describes her exhibit of bold, expressive paintings as “a journey to find myself present in my own body, with all of…
Village Art & Craft Fair Celebrates 50 Years
Late local visionary John Cram, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, launched the Village Art & Craft Fair 50 years ago, when Asheville was still a…
Warm Hands, Hot Wax, Happy Artist
Local multimedia artist Kate Colclaser had a successful pottery studio in Blowing Rock, NC, before moving to Asheville. But the winters there can be…
Bird is the Word (And You Can Take That Literally)
Local painter and ceramicist Kate Coleman doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t an artist. “All children are artists,” she believes, “and I never…
Pastoral Pottery from a True Believer
Waynesville ceramicist Laurey-Faye Dean grew up in a fundamentalist preacher’s family, around churchgoers who were true believers. Then, as a child, she found the…
The Muse Who Demands Down Time
In school, says Zander Stefani, he learned what makes up the basis of any good painting: “line and contrast and variations in texture, color,…