Nature & Nurture: The Voorhees Family Artistic Legacy
byEdwin and Mildred Voorhees believed that nature and nurture were important to the creation of art and artists. When they moved to the coast of…
Crafters
Holding a 45-Year Glassmaking Career Up to the Light
byArtist Marty Mitchell has been teaching stained-glass techniques in classes at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College for a remarkable 45 years. “The classes are extremely…
Compassion & Cannibalism: A Spiritual Guide to Recycling
byTracey Morgan Gallery is hosting an immersive, interactive installation by WNC artist and poet Ted Pope, who employs recycled, everyday materials that would otherwise…
Imagine Dragons Riding on Your Hip or Circling Your Waist
byLyn Lyndall makes it possible to keep a pet dragon by your side. The artist’s hand-tooled leather bags are sculpted with the bodies of…
In a Minor Key
by“My work mainly concerns mood and feeling,” explains painter Shawn Krueger. “I tend to lean into the somber mood and, sadly, the times seem…
She’s Producing a Whole Different Kind of Reality Show
byJaime Byrd always was ahead of the action. She started writing music as a kid and was performing in nightclubs, she says, by age…
A Well-Made Scenic Overlook: Inside the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway
byEstablished in 1930 to help boost employment, and thus income, during the Great Depression, the Southern Highland Craft Guild continues to thrive. By…
Popular TEDx Talk is About Talking Without Talking
byTalking through conflict is supposed to help. But Ginger Huebner, founding director of Roots + Wings School of Art and Design, observes that more…
Paint on the Right Doors and You Might Find Them Opening
byHad he followed the money, Aaron Fields’ ongoing path to becoming a full-time artist could have gone in an entirely different direction. “In sixth…
The Owl Won’t Blink, and Other Wild Stories
byThe eyes of the animals in Jackson Hammack’s paintings don’t blink. They stare straight at you, even through you, as though to say, “I…