One Artist’s Long Trail to the Top
byEight years ago, Mike Wurman paid a visit with his wife Rhianna to Max Patch, a grassy mountain bald on the North Carolina/Tennessee border….
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Our Ecology, Shifting Our Gaze Inward
byBevelyn Afor Ukah describes her exhibit of bold, expressive paintings as “a journey to find myself present in my own body, with all of…
The Only Gallery is the Back Story
byThe long reach of the COVID-19 pandemic has left few areas of life untouched — even if those areas happen to be off the…
Warm Hands, Hot Wax, Happy Artist
byLocal multimedia artist Kate Colclaser had a successful pottery studio in Blowing Rock, NC, before moving to Asheville. But the winters there can be…
Bird is the Word (And You Can Take That Literally)
byLocal painter and ceramicist Kate Coleman doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t an artist. “All children are artists,” she believes, “and I never…
Artsy Polymath Got the Fever to Create and Never Recovered
byWhen asked if he’d be willing to sit for an interview, Jerald Pope had this to say: “What aspect of my pretty spectacular life…
Pastoral Pottery from a True Believer
byWaynesville ceramicist Laurey-Faye Dean grew up in a fundamentalist preacher’s family, around churchgoers who were true believers. Then, as a child, she found the…
The Muse Who Demands Down Time
byIn school, says Zander Stefani, he learned what makes up the basis of any good painting: “line and contrast and variations in texture, color,…
Reporting from Michelangelo’s Journey to Mars
byWhen he was 15, Nick Raynolds decided he needed to see someone naked. But, unlike most teenage boys, his intentions were entirely professional. “I…
Professional Crafts Program puts Local Talent to Work
byFour years ago, Annah Bible-Sullivan found her fate in a spoon. She was a junior at Asheville High School, looking for an elective to…