He Used a Backcountry Sport to Make his Mark Worldwide
by“In every community, there’s someone up in the hills who could shoot the toes off a Tweety Bird from a hundred yards away.” That’s what…
“In every community, there’s someone up in the hills who could shoot the toes off a Tweety Bird from a hundred yards away.” That’s what…
“I don’t do what other people want,” says BJ Precourt of his whimsical carved wooden figures. “It’s all my own imagination.” Scavenging wood from…
Andrew Goodheart Brown says he was initially attracted to broom making when he realized he could create something beautiful and, at the same time,…
Pepi Acebo thought he might become a minister. The former Warren Wilson student spent a few years working at Unitarian Universalist retreats, including a…
Sixteen years ago, Darrell Copeland witnessed a woodturning demonstration. Prior to that, he had studied drawing at New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, apprenticed…
Dana Smith has always had a penchant for woodworking. He loves the natural beauty of the grain and the story it tells about how…
Marion J. Kaminkow, 96, tries to deflect any recognition of her wide-ranging artistic endeavors — including painting, mosaic making, enameling, and needlepoint. But examples…
He won her heart with an apple tree. “People bring me wood all the time,” says Becky Beyer of Barnardsville. “That’s how my boyfriend…
“Some days are all splinters and dust,” says furniture maker David Scott. He usually works on several pieces at one time, and is always…
Alchemy was the medieval “science” that sought the transmutation of base metals into gold. In his own way, Joel Hunnicutt appears to turn wood…