Not Being an Architect is One Way to Make Famous Buildings
byFor an art show early in his career, Holden McCurry made a two-foot-tall clay structure, topped it with clasped hands, and titled it “Prayer…
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Are You Brave Enough to Face Unearthly Archetypes?
byIt’s sometimes difficult to look at one of Gail Gulick’s life-sized shamanic masks, beautiful though they may be. They vary greatly in mood and…
Porcelain Potter has Secured an Unbreakable Legacy
byMichael Hofman took a lot of clay classes in college because, he jokes, the potters had the best parties. “They were always walking around…
Long and Arduous is the New Dress to Impress
byTyler Lavenburg is the head instructor at Weaverville’s Holistic Survival School. He uses his environment as material for his craftsmanship — hardcore homesteading skills…
Marketing Folk Art without a Website is Almost as Gutsy as Throwing Knives
by“I don’t do what other people want,” says BJ Precourt of his whimsical carved wooden figures. “It’s all my own imagination.” Scavenging wood from…
Felter’s Fake Animal Heads Look so Alive that Real Dogs Attack Them
byHaley Nocik studied at Sante Fe University of Art and Design, concentrating on oil painting. But she dropped out to do animal-conservation work in…
Flights of Fancy are Rarely Ever So Direct
byCleaster Cotton explains that her first name rhymes with “fiesta,” and her Winged Narratives paintings have an animated folk-art quality about them that clinches…
He was Swept Away by Front Porch Epiphanies
byAndrew Goodheart Brown says he was initially attracted to broom making when he realized he could create something beautiful and, at the same time,…
She Penciled in 30 Years of Drawing Time
byTeresa Pennington is a colored-pencil artist who renders exquisitely detailed drawings of Western North Carolina vistas, flora, and fauna. For more than three decades,…
This Former Model Knows How to Dress Up a Painting
byAsya Zahia Colie is a figurative, portrait, and abstract artist who divides her time between Asheville and her native home of Provence, in the…