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…
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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…
Painter’s Art is Programmed to Make the World Better
byLeslie Rowland’s love of science and the responsibility she feels to the natural world led her to a Master’s degree in environmental policy and…
Sometimes You Find Your Sense of Place Once You Leave
bySuzanne Saunders, raised in Leicester, first began to feel the artist within herself when she participated in a summer program for gifted and talented…
Asheville Art Museum and BMCM+AC
byLaunched to splendid fanfare, after a massive expansion, a year ago this month, only to have to close four months later when COVID-19 hit,…
You’re Never Too Young to Start Obsessing Over Your Art Collection
byMichael and Hanna Manes are decades younger than most of their art-collecting peers, and already their nine-month-old son, Harvey, is involved in the family…
Her Superpower is Visualizing a 300-Hour Project in Miniature
byNoël Yovovich says she was born to be an artist, and certainly she was raised in an uncommon atmosphere, in a rural area of…
Assemblage Artist Receives New Recognition at VA Center
byFeatured last September in Asheville Made and now represented by Trackside Studios in the River Arts District, Deborah Anderson is an assemblage artist whose…
College Football Player Tackles Glassmaking With Characteristic Intensity
byOhio native Samuel Spees was introduced to glassmaking while pursuing a degree in mathematics and playing football at Centre College in Kentucky. He became…
Theriault on Gray
by{Legacy Craft Series} Ceramic sculptor Verdelle Gray was born in 1918 and moved to Asheville in 1962, opening her own art studio. She continued…