They’ve Been Crafting Rings Around the Industry for 40 Years
byKathleen Doyle remembers the moment she realized she and Tom Reardon were built to last. It was the mid-’80s. Doyle and Reardon, already well-established…
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Studio Glass Influencer Runs an Inside Operation
byHe was studying ceramics at Florida Atlantic University when, on awhim, he bought a book on glassblowing. “It cost $18, which I really didn’t…
Once a One-Man Show, Always a One-Man Show
byScott Summerfield prefers to work alone. Not surprising when you learn he was an only child who grew up on a sparsely populated barrier…
Bits of Window Screen are Really Just Old-Fashioned Pixels
by“I always thought I’d like sculpting or pottery because I like three- dimensional art, but after years of watercolor, I was determined to find…
Artist From Christmas Town Still Addicted to Twinkling Color
by“I had to fall on my ass in order to become an artist,” says Angela Alexander with a laugh. “It was in 2004, I…
His True Grit is a Stone Composite That Dries Into Fine Art
byWhen John Wayne Jackson was born, his mother thought it would be a clever idea to ask his six siblings to name him. “They…
Danielle Burke on Frances Louisa Goodrich
byFrances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was a Presbyterian missionary from Binghamton, New York, who came to Buncombe County — living in East Asheville’s Riceville community…
If It’s Not Recycled, Is It Even Art?
byThe River Arts District has no trouble attracting visitors, as long-time resident artist Shelley Schenker knows. But a secluded second-floor studio in a historic…
How Makers of All Kinds Reclaimed the World’s Vilified Creatures
byThose once-feared flying mammals don’t want to nest in your hair — bats are too busy gobbling mosquitoes with superpower abandon. Building protective bat…
13th Annual Lynn Boggess Exhibition
byThe Haen Gallery Heralded by The Haen Gallery for the 13th year in a row, one of the most remarkable American landscape painters of…