Fly in the Ointment and Other Game Changers
byAsheville artist Michelle Hamilton admits that “facing a blank canvas used to scare the life out of me.” But those days faded into oblivion…
Asheville artist Michelle Hamilton admits that “facing a blank canvas used to scare the life out of me.” But those days faded into oblivion…
Lots of kids are encouraged to do art. But Sara Bell was commanded. She vividly remembers the many times she felt agitated when she…
With her advanced degree in cultural anthropology, Jean Hess might have explored the Battle of Matewan from a purely academic standpoint. With her personal…
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.”…