Crafty Heartwood Gallery Anticipated the Main Street Revival By Three Decades
byHeartwood Gallery owner Shelley DeKay arrived in Saluda in the fall of 1984. She and her husband, a journeyman carpenter, had been traveling and…
Heartwood Gallery owner Shelley DeKay arrived in Saluda in the fall of 1984. She and her husband, a journeyman carpenter, had been traveling and…
“Opening a gallery was not on my radar,” admits lamp designer Leah Baker, who founded Artisans on Main in January 2017. “In the end,…
Elizabeth Brim got her MFA in printmaking from the University of Georgia, but she found her fame in hot steel. Since the ’90s, Brim…
By: Mike Schoeffel By now, being called a “geek” is commonplace — anyone who’s focused on a niche art form, or deeply immersed in…
Ken Jones, a renowned luthier in Candler who will participate this month in the Mountain Acoustics Luthier Invitational, has spent 30 years in the…
“I’m a self-taught artist who has felt my way through the process,” says Pam Holthouser. She also spends “way too much time” feeling her…
An early attempt at making a knife ended in a painful lesson for Ryan Pepper. Sharpening the blade too early in the process, “I…
“In every community, there’s someone up in the hills who could shoot the toes off a Tweety Bird from a hundred yards away.” That’s what…
Contemplating Mitchell Lonas’ work, the viewer might wonder, “How does he do that?” And Lonas doesn’t sound so sure himself. “When I first started…
Frances Domingues studied psychology in college, started painting in her down time, and developed a passion for black-and-white photography. But after graduation and the…