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…
MEDIUM
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….
His Words Are the World’s Faces
byDustin Spagnola, an Asheville-based muralist of widespread acclaim, has never been shy about using art to address social issues. When protests erupted in Asheville…
Freedom’s Just Another Word for No Rules Left to Follow
byIsraeli-born Raquel Egosi had a lot of paths to choose from — and she followed many of them. “A city girl in the Tel…
Her Contemporary Oils Go Back Hundreds of Years
byLaKisha Blount, a self-described Affrilachian painter based in Gerton, NC, in Henderson County, focuses on visual documentation and preservation of Black, Southern, and Appalachian…
Furniture Maker Never Took Tradition Sitting Down
byDuring one extraordinarily difficult period in her life, Annie Evelyn lost her stepfather, her father, and got divorced in the span of two years….
Her Future as an Artist was Lurking in the Cards
byCathy Nichols knows pigs can’t fly. But when confronted with a life-sized sow doused in a glitter veneer and suspended by a bright red…
The Craft Legacy Series: Gale on Schleicher
byPam Granger Gale is a local marbling artist and instructor who owns Majik Studios, a working art venue and teaching center in…
The Craft Legacy Series: Cox on Davidson
byHardy Davidson, whose ancestors settled in WNC around the time of the Revolutionary War, was a mostly self-taught woodcarving artist born in 1900. He…