Her Superpower is Visualizing a 300-Hour Project in Miniature
byNoël Yovovich says she was born to be an artist, and certainly she was raised in an uncommon atmosphere, in a rural area of…
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Brushes With War Turned Into a Life Painting Portraits
byPainter Skip Rohde did not expect to end up in the Smithsonian. But when the artist and veteran naval officer completed his “Faces of…
Assemblage Artist Receives New Recognition at VA Center
byFeatured last September in Asheville Made and now represented by Trackside Studios in the River Arts District, Deborah Anderson is an assemblage artist whose…
College Football Player Tackles Glassmaking With Characteristic Intensity
byOhio native Samuel Spees was introduced to glassmaking while pursuing a degree in mathematics and playing football at Centre College in Kentucky. He became…
A Collage Career Requires No Entrance Exams
byWhen Karen Paquette was 11 years old in Faribault, Minnesota, she entered a national poster-making contest sponsored by the Humane Society. “I went to…
Living Her Best Life in Layers
byHer parents and grandparents were all artists, her father taught her how to use various artistic tools at a young age, and she grew…
Inventive High Country Sculptor Puts the “Tile” in Reptile
byThe 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
by{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
byAlex 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…
She Turned to Feathers When Local Landscapes Didn’t Fly
byAfter 35 years as a working artist, doing commissions in watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pen and ink, Laura Richardson had every intention of retiring….