Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
byMany people believe technology will one day obliterate all life on Earth. Seattle-based glass artist Ginny Ruffner isn’t necessarily one of those people. Organized…
Many people believe technology will one day obliterate all life on Earth. Seattle-based glass artist Ginny Ruffner isn’t necessarily one of those people. Organized…
How early-20th-century landscape painters saved the Smokies Mist-shrouded vistas. Lush deciduous forests. Moonlit meadows. These are just some of the awe-inspiring scenes featured in…
n the late 1990s, Cara Romero went to the University of Houston to study cultural anthropology. But when she opened her textbooks, she was…
Astrid Salinger is a junior at the School of Inquiry & Life Sciences at Asheville, aka SILSA. But you’d never be able to guess…
In 1996, Luzene Hill sat down in front of an easel and began sketching bones. Femurs, skulls, ribs — her mind was overwhelmed by the…
In 2013, Asheville-born interdisciplinary artist Sherrill Roland was charged with a crime he didn’t commit. Though later exonerated, Roland would spend 10 months in…
Susan McChesney came from Maine to WNC in 2014, having spent 40 years teaching others to draw. “A spinal injury left me with a…
Launched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,…
Viola Spells is a third-generation crocheter, and she says she loves the medium’s “woven look — and that it’s a traditional women’s art. It…
If there’s a provable craft gene, Rachel Meginnes may one day weave the evidence. Her paternal grandmother hooked primitive-style rugs; her maternal grandfather was…