Making Thousands of Itty-Bitty Sculptures, She Broke the Mold of Outsized Assumptions
byCynthia Thornton of Green Girl Studios went to school to learn how to make large-scale bronze sculptures. But once she was out in the…
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Dryadic Figures Are the Ones that Transform Themselves
byAt a glance, it’s a statue of a woman. Her face is turned to the side as though she’s peering off into an unknown…
For the Sake of Drama, She Sets Fashion on Fire (or Puts it in a Blender)
byBetsy Puckett has been an eclectic stage performer since age 8. Last decade, she gained regional fame as the bawdy belle Augusta Wind —…
Jewelry Designer’s Pioneer Story is a Limited-Edition Gem
byPaula Dawkins does 99 percent of her jewelry-design work on a computer. But the first idea is always a drawing, to be found somewhere…
It’s Not Sew Easy to Make Porcelain Perform Like this
byHer painted vessels are functional, but so expressively detailed they look like they’ve been cozied up in a protective layer of felt or wool….
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…
It Takes Two to Tango, But only a Single Epiphany to Dip out of Functional Ceramics
byWhen he took an Argentine tango class, Eric Knoche says he felt as though he was seeing the true nature of the world for…
When it Comes to Woodworking, What Doesn’t Kill You Gives You Great Pleasure
byDana Smith has always had a penchant for woodworking. He loves the natural beauty of the grain and the story it tells about how…
Decades of Study and Thousands of Miles in, Blower is Still Hot for Glass
byJohn Almaguer’s artistic epiphany wasn’t reverent or momentous. It just made him giddy — “like a kid in a candy shop,” he says. “No…
the Ceiling of Traditional Glasswork
byBeing 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…