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…
Banjo Luthier Picked the Right Time to Make Old-Fashioned Instruments
Pisgah Banjos builds handcrafted bracket-style banjos whose lineage can be traced to America’s Industrial Revolution. Founder Patrick David Sawyer and his crew of four…
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…
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…
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…