Annual Multi-Kiln Opening Celebration
bySince The Village Potters Clay Center will be unable to host their annual Multi-Kiln Opening Celebration in person, they’ll present virtual kiln openings, including…
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Banjo Luthier Picked the Right Time to Make Old-Fashioned Instruments
byPisgah Banjos builds handcrafted bracket-style banjos whose lineage can be traced to America’s Industrial Revolution. Founder Patrick David Sawyer and his crew of four…
The Meaning of Life Might be Written in a Produce Sign
byChelsea Ragan applauds the everyday. “Domestic life is not thought of in an artistic way,” says the illustrator, mother of a 2- and 5-year-old….
How One Woman’s Spiritual Epiphanies Bear Fruit
by“When they think of us, I hope they smile,” says Karen Zimmerman, who recently moved from Haywood County to another rural locale: Limestone, Tenn….
A Certain Vulnerability is Set in Stone
byAmy Medford has two works of sculpture titled Metamorphosis, both male figures. One she carved from a block of white ordinario marble: a solid…
Portrait Artist Gets Into Your Head
by“I just keep banging away until it seems to be what I was shooting for,” says Rich Nelson, painter and rock musician. “It really…
From Her Safe Space to Yours, With Love
byMary Farmer dwells deep in encaustic, a layered, two-dimensional (but sculptural) painting medium that uses beeswax and damar resin. Following a stay in rehab…
Point, Shoot, Infiltrate, Sculpt, Repeat
by“I like making things with my hands” isn’t exactly the way one would expect a conversation with a noted photographer to begin, but that’s…
The Man on the Moon Tends to Do His Own Thing
byIt was not a propitious beginning for a budding young artist. Michael Hamlin was in second grade when his art teacher gave her students…
Ralph Burns, A Time Before: Asheville and Beyond
byIf downtown Asheville seemed desolate this spring, just time-travel back to 1978 and consider the shadowy canyons of College, Haywood, Walnut, and nearby streets….