The Woman Who Wouldn’t Retire Found Herself Reinventing the Basket
byAfter years of operating Eat No Evil, a natural-foods restaurant in New Orleans, Patti Quinn Hill retired in 1987 and moved to Western North…
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Print is Far From Dead — Just Ask Asheville BookWorks (and Steamroller Operators)
byIt’s safe to say that Laurie Corral is the unofficial matriarch of Western North Carolina’s book-arts and print scene. In 2004, she founded Asheville…
Sculptor Pushes the Love of Books to an Entirely New Shelf
byOne day, Suzanne Dittenber dropped her Artforum magazine in the tub. “It was really quite beautiful watching the water spilling and the pages moving,”…
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Deckle-Edge Upscale Stationery
byT. S. Eliot said that “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” In other words, transforming known material is more sophisticated than attempting an inferior…
This Civil Rights Hero Wrote the Book on Text Installation
byIt wasn’t something she sought, but neither did she shrink from the enormous burden. At age 15, Clarissa Sligh agreed to face down the…