Big Crafty Founder was Destined to Curate the Indie Arts Scene
byAnthropologists are trained to take what appears foreign and help build bridges of understanding, appreciation, and universal commonality. They are also skilled at delving…
Photography
This Is Not Rush Hour
byAsheville photographer Chris Abell — best known as a masterful, world-renowned flute maker — likes to find and capture extraordinary images within ordinary scenes….
The Reckoning in Pictures: Local Photographer Releases The Road to Unforgetting
byIn a year of literary reckoning that brought us Maud Newton’s ripple-causing Ancestor Trouble, about the harsh social implications of family legacy, writer, photographer,…
“The Long Process of Creation” Booming Art League Debuts Rebranded Studio Tour
byNo one can accuse the Art League of Henderson County of having remained idle during the thick of the pandemic. In September, the greatly…
Village Art & Craft Fair Celebrates 50 Years
byLate local visionary John Cram, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, launched the Village Art & Craft Fair 50 years ago, when Asheville was still a…
She’s Redefining What it Means to Work Remotely
by“Every year, just while hiking, I take 100,000 landscape photos,” estimates Asheville writer and professional adventure photographer Rachel B. Pressley. “My portfolio is insane.”…
20 Years, 20,000 Square Feet, One Big Key to Success
byThe F.W. Woolworth building, located at the corner of Haywood Street and Battery Park in downtown Asheville, was constructed in 1938 and has since…
Local Dance Film is an Intimate Experiment That Went Worldwide
byFor 25 years, Kate Weare, whose work was described by Dance Magazine as “the voice of the ‘it’s complicated’ generation,” has been a highly…
Thousands of Pastel Sticks Were Exiled Along the Journey
byLucy Cobos graduated with high honors from the New England School of Photography and helped establish the first photography department at an NBC-TV affiliate…
The Best Four- Million-Year-Old Creek is the Closest
byChris Foley has traveled the world — from Labrador to Belize to Patagonia — capturing the dynamic energy of rivers and creeks, images that…