Studio Glass Influencer Runs an Inside Operation
byHe was studying ceramics at Florida Atlantic University when, on awhim, he bought a book on glassblowing. “It cost $18, which I really didn’t…
He was studying ceramics at Florida Atlantic University when, on awhim, he bought a book on glassblowing. “It cost $18, which I really didn’t…
Scott Summerfield prefers to work alone. Not surprising when you learn he was an only child who grew up on a sparsely populated barrier…
“I always thought I’d like sculpting or pottery because I like three- dimensional art, but after years of watercolor, I was determined to find…
When John Wayne Jackson was born, his mother thought it would be a clever idea to ask his six siblings to name him. “They…
Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was a Presbyterian missionary from Binghamton, New York, who came to Buncombe County — living in East Asheville’s Riceville community…
The River Arts District has no trouble attracting visitors, as long-time resident artist Shelley Schenker knows. But a secluded second-floor studio in a historic…
Those once-feared flying mammals don’t want to nest in your hair — bats are too busy gobbling mosquitoes with superpower abandon. Building protective bat…
Thirty years ago, an interest in history lured English-born and now Asheville-based artist Julyan Davis to the United States, and he’s been painting scenes…
“Patterns are created in everything,” observes textile artist Michael Kane. Flying birds form an unmistakable pattern; rain on a still lake less obviously so….
As a child, Deborah Anderson was fascinated by pieces of animal skeletons she found in the woods. She’d take them home and try to…