Artist/Activist Gets the Word Out in Visual Language
Multimedia sculptor, painter, and all-around creative/community dynamo Tarah Singh believes artists have a responsibility to document history. She uses the term “herstorian” to describe…
Art Helped Him Answer the Million-Dollar Question
Onicas Gaddis taught himself to draw, and he learned how to paint from abstract expressionist Sarah Carlisle Towery, an alumnus of Black Mountain College…
Potter Ditched “Heady” and Went Down to Earth
“Functional pottery is a cool, subversive art form,” believes WNC potter/ceramicist Courtney Martin. “Without even knowing it, you internalize it. You hold it and…
Keeping It So Real Even the Paint is Handmade
Across America, a culture war is raging, says painter John Mac Kah. But he’s not referencing current social movements or political turmoil. “There’s a…
Architect Sets Up House in the “Beginner’s Mind”
In 1995, following a long career as an architect, Werner Haker — born in Germany and raised partly in New York City — moved…
College Football Player Tackles Glassmaking With Characteristic Intensity
Ohio native Samuel Spees was introduced to glassmaking while pursuing a degree in mathematics and playing football at Centre College in Kentucky. He became…
Put a Stamp on It: Flood Gallery’s Annual Mail Art Show
The United States Postal Service is in dire trouble, and Flood Gallery Fine Art Center is recruiting artists to defend it, via the gallery’s…
Inventive High Country Sculptor Puts the “Tile” in Reptile
The studio of ceramic, textile, and sculptural artist Shae Bishop is in rural Spruce Pine. But the multimedia artist, who’s also an amateur herpetologist,…
Theriault on Gray
{Legacy Craft Series} Ceramic sculptor Verdelle Gray was born in 1918 and moved to Asheville in 1962, opening her own art studio. She continued…
Glass Artist Answered the Ultimate Casting Call
Alex Gabriel Bernstein’s style is an original fusion of dissimilar elements. He’ll grind steel and let the metallic sparks shower against hot glass, fusing…