To Make It as a Healer, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Talking Stick
byWhen you call yourself a healer, you can’t be squeamish. Desiree DeMars has crafted amulets from metal plates and screws that came from clients’…
Mixed Media
Crafter is a Menace to Society, and the World is Better for It
byFrankie Myers is always in motion. She’s reused thousands of pounds of discarded inner tubes, and has also managed to double-purpose her business’s quirky…
Book Artist Wants to Re-Plot How Viewers Consume Content
byGrowing up in the 1950s, Kristy Higby witnessed Brown v. Board of Education overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. She saw Jim Crow incite race riots…
Mosaic Teacher Leaves a Little Piece of Her Heart (and DNA) in Every Project
byIn the hands of Asheville mosaic artist and teacher Linda Pannullo, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ten years ago…
Service-Industry Workers Do More Than Make Asheville Run
byThose who frequent Asheville’s coffee shops are used to latte art: the delicate swirls of hearts and rosettes made by steamed milk on the…
Sometimes a Googly Eye Sees More Clearly
byAs a child in the 1950s, Julia Burr hammered boards and crossed wires, constructing forts for her plastic cowboys and army-green soldiers. “I was…
“Slow Film” Maker Doesn’t Flinch from Reel Life
byThe video camera on Apple’s latest iPhone can record 30 frames per second in 4K resolution, continuously stabilize and focus the shot, and share…
She Might be the Whole Reason for the RAD — Just Don’t Let Her Hear You Say It
bySome say the River Arts District might never have happened without Porge Buck and her late husband Lewis, who purchased the Williams Feed and…
Her Egg Making is the Unbroken Link to an Eastern European Past
by“That’s my mini museum. I like to call it my eggs-hibit,” says Andrea Kulish. She’s pointing to a glass-paneled IKEA cabinet situated against the…
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and He’s Rifling Through His Tool Belt
by“Everything changes: that’s the one true reality.” Chalkley Matlack is talking about society’s future, but it’s also an unintentional artist’s statement. Matlack is always…