Painter’s Dream Re-emerged After Brushes With Death
by“I remember waking up in ICU in an Atlanta hospital and being truly amazed I was still alive.” It was 1998. For years, Wendy…
“I remember waking up in ICU in an Atlanta hospital and being truly amazed I was still alive.” It was 1998. For years, Wendy…
When he took an Argentine tango class, Eric Knoche says he felt as though he was seeing the true nature of the world for…
Dana Smith has always had a penchant for woodworking. He loves the natural beauty of the grain and the story it tells about how…
John Almaguer’s artistic epiphany wasn’t reverent or momentous. It just made him giddy — “like a kid in a candy shop,” he says. “No…
Being the first executive director of the two-year-old North Carolina Glass Center, Kari Rinn has found a labor of love. The facility in the…
Steve Mann is a commercial photographer and the co-owner of West Asheville’s Double Crown, the atmospheric pocket bar where he shelters his other passion:…
Judy Simmons began by making a traditional quilt. But she didn’t like working with a fixed pattern. So for the second one, she tried…
Most people believe an artist leaves a bit of themselves in their work, but when Amanda Heinz-Stevenson builds her matchbox shrines, she hopes just…
Portrait by Matt Rose In 1997, Julie Schantz became so smitten with henna body adornment, or mehndi, that she quit her job as a…
Kathryn B. Phillips disagrees when people tell her watercolor is the most difficult medium. She politely redirects, choosing a softer word. It’s not difficult…