Reel Talk With a Bagpipe Player Turned Maker
byIt was the 1980s, an era before Outlander made kilts sexy again, when most people associated bagpipes with traditional weddings and funerals — when…
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Turned and Carved: Bowl Sale at Gallery 17
byDuring the month of April, Foundation Woodworks, a local collective of artists who share equipment, studio space, and a similar passion, has a group…
Sculptor Only Operates Under His Own Influence
byBy the time Richard Flottemesch decided to make art his life’s work, in his junior year at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore native…
The Art of Staying Inside the Box
byJackson Martin is a contrarian: He believes rules beget innovation rather than stifle it. “Parameters are something I give my students all the time,”…
How to Ollie Into the Fine-Art World
byThe year 1989 was a kickflip to the ankle for lifelong skateboarder George Peterson. Stuck in his sleepy hometown of Bishop, California (population 3,747),…
Featured Woodworker: Paul Eisenhauer
byExhibit runs through Dec. 31 For the last month of the year, Gallery 17 at Foundation Woodworks is presenting pieces by Burnsville-based maker Paul…
There’s No Time Like the Present to Carve the Look of Millennia
byFor decades, painter and television host Bob Ross reworked what he called “happy accidents” — harsh brushstrokes, paint drips, botched blending — into clouds…
Architect Sets Up House in the “Beginner’s Mind”
byIn 1995, following a long career as an architect, Werner Haker — born in Germany and raised partly in New York City — moved…
Banjo Luthier Picked the Right Time to Make Old-Fashioned Instruments
byPisgah Banjos builds handcrafted bracket-style banjos whose lineage can be traced to America’s Industrial Revolution. Founder Patrick David Sawyer and his crew of four…
The Craft Legacy Series: Cox on Davidson
byHardy Davidson, whose ancestors settled in WNC around the time of the Revolutionary War, was a mostly self-taught woodcarving artist born in 1900. He…