Warm Hands, Hot Wax, Happy Artist
byLocal multimedia artist Kate Colclaser had a successful pottery studio in Blowing Rock, NC, before moving to Asheville. But the winters there can be…
Crafters
Bird is the Word (And You Can Take That Literally)
byLocal 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
byWaynesville 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
byIn school, says Zander Stefani, he learned what makes up the basis of any good painting: “line and contrast and variations in texture, color,…
Reporting from Michelangelo’s Journey to Mars
byWhen he was 15, Nick Raynolds decided he needed to see someone naked. But, unlike most teenage boys, his intentions were entirely professional. “I…
Professional Crafts Program puts Local Talent to Work
byFour years ago, Annah Bible-Sullivan found her fate in a spoon. She was a junior at Asheville High School, looking for an elective to…
The Yellow Clay Road Leads to Leicester
by“While attending Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis, I carried my supplies around in an old doctor’s bag, prompting my pals to…
Flow Gallery and the Beauty of Keeping Current
byOne of the world’s most ancient rivers, the French Broad began pushing its way northward through what is now Marshall hundreds of millions of…
She’s Redefining What it Means to Work Remotely
by“Every year, just while hiking, I take 100,000 landscape photos,” estimates Asheville writer and professional adventure photographer Rachel B. Pressley. “My portfolio is insane.”…
Andy Farkas, Solo Exhibition
by“His prints are less happily-ever-after than sweetly open-ended,” is how Asheville Made described Andy Farkas’ narrative folkloric works four years ago. Farkas, based in…