Jewelry Designer’s Pioneer Story is a Limited-Edition Gem
byPaula Dawkins does 99 percent of her jewelry-design work on a computer. But the first idea is always a drawing, to be found somewhere…
Paula Dawkins does 99 percent of her jewelry-design work on a computer. But the first idea is always a drawing, to be found somewhere…
Most makers chase various muses en route to a career. Not Roberto Vengoechea. “I was born to do this,” says the jewelry designer. “I…
Patrick Ober of Ober Metalworks has worked with metals since 1992. But while most machinists use computerized pneumatic tools, Ober does everything manually, with…
It was on a summer trip with his family to Western North Carolina in the early 1950s that an eight-year-old boy from Tennessee made…
Monty Phillips enjoys being in control of his own education. He says he’s long been attracted to the meticulous techniques of Japanese art —…
Standing in the middle of the stream, Jason Janow tucks his fly rod under his arm, reaches into the water, and picks up a…
Lots of folks claim they felt “called” to move to Asheville. For Beatriz “Bea” Lothrop, the reasons were vague, but the impulse was urgent….