Celebrating West Asheville Style
byA few months ago, local painter Gus Cutty created a likeness of iconic drag queen RuPaul on the west exterior wing of the Bledsoe…
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Permanent Buzz
byA project begun two years ago has weathered all the chaos and postponements of 2020 and emerged in a sweet spot. A few weeks…
More Lasting Than Liner Notes: An Album Blooms Into an Art Book
byBy: Alli Marshall Asheville-based folk healer/musician Jeff Firewalker Schmitt and keyboardist John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood) met deep in the Amazon jungle, where…
A Pattern of Rejuvenation
byThere’s no shortage of reasons to take a drive in North Carolina’s High Country in the thick of spring, but administrators at Beech Mountain…
About That Blue Period
bySeth Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and went to art school at East Carolina University before he discovered blues guitar and decamped…
Carving Out a Place for the Endangered Red Wolf
byAsheville Made’s February issue went to press too soon to report the predictions of any national or local celebrity groundhogs, though it’s safe to…
Picking Up the Pieces
byRecycled art may go down in history as the official medium of the COVID-19 era, since it makes great use of spare time and…
If It’s Happening Right Now, It’s at Upstairs Artspace
byIt all began in a bedroom. It was 1978 when Craig Pleasants, an artist and art lover living in Tryon, decided the town needed…
Local Arts Titan Remembered
byJohn Cram, the cultural underwriter of Asheville’s modern-day renaissance, passed away Oct. 26, at age 72, from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Arriving from Wisconsin…
Put a Stamp on It: Flood Gallery’s Annual Mail Art Show
byThe United States Postal Service is in dire trouble, and Flood Gallery Fine Art Center is recruiting artists to defend it, via the gallery’s…