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…
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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…
When the Mailbox Holds Epiphanies Instead of Flyers
byHighway 64 is the primary artery connecting Hendersonville to Brevard. It intersects Etowah’s few stoplights, patters past Transylvania County farmland, and finally empties near…
Marauding Beasts are Part of the Landscape at North Asheville Sculpture Garden
bySusan Turner’s magical tract of land in the middle of the historic Grove Park Inn neighborhood begged for more than a garden — and…
Meet Her in the Garden of Unearthly Delights
byJulie Armbruster is grateful for her freed-up time in 2020. Never mind the pandemic — her world has always been weird. The illustrator’s drawings,…
No Time Like the Present to Go to Another World
byKreh Mellick’s folkloric fine art, often a collaged mix of gouache and cut paper, feels at once nostalgic and totally of the moment. There’s…
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…
Keeping It So Real Even the Paint is Handmade
byAcross America, a culture war is raging, says painter John Mac Kah. But he’s not referencing current social movements or political turmoil. “There’s a…
Throwing Clay is How He Got Through the Day — and Landed on a Career
byJohn Cummings, diagnosed with ADHD as a child, found that art kept him busy and out of trouble. He recalls working with clay when…
Art Birds for the Apocalypse
byMemes everywhere by mid October (when November Asheville Made went to press) were riffing on R.E.M.’s cheerfully dire laundry-list song “It’s the End of…