Embracing the Chaos
byEdwin Knies says his mind is like “a hand grenade that just keeps exploding.” Once he pulls the pin, he can’t stop thinking. Though…
Edwin Knies says his mind is like “a hand grenade that just keeps exploding.” Once he pulls the pin, he can’t stop thinking. Though…
“My hands are always doing something,” says Barbara Bryan — sewer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and quilter, just to name a few of the craft…
Sometime in the early 1990s, Larry Paul King was driving home from his night shift as a postal carrier in Chicago when a radio…
The first time Rebecca King Hawkinson walked into a field with her landscape box to paint en plein air was unforgettable — and not…
Elizabeth Porritt Carrington’s life in America started with a whisper at a silent retreat. It was 2009, and a year had passed since her…
Oil painter Rebecca King Hawkinson, who trained decades ago with fresco master Ben Long IV, enjoys a wide base of collectors who seek her…
“It was the loudest sound I ever heard, and now my car is a burnt marshmallow, but I feel really lucky to be alive.”…
Chifferobe Home & Garden owner Stephanie Wilder moved to Western North Carolina from Charlotte in 1989, noting, “Like many people, I was drawn to…
Up a short flight of stairs from Cherry Street and tucked among the quaint shops of downtown Black Mountain is Bella Gallery, an 800-square-foot…
Lisa Steffens grew up along New York’s Hudson River, and her mother studied fashion design at the area’s prestigious Pratt Institute for a year…