Making (Negative) Space for Contemporary Quilting
byThis year, the Western North Carolina Quilters Guild will celebrate its 40th birthday. And, like anyone blowing out the candles on their “Big Four-O,”…
This year, the Western North Carolina Quilters Guild will celebrate its 40th birthday. And, like anyone blowing out the candles on their “Big Four-O,”…
Food for Thought, Food for Real Debby Staton observed students’ food insecurity firsthand while working as a kindergarten teacher. She says it’s even more…
“Sometimes I almost have to hide my new work so people won’t buy it,” admits potter Julie Calhoun-Roepnack, a member of the prestigious Southern…
Madison County fiber artist Ruby Bock isn’t one to overthink her work. “A lot of people say, ‘My art reflects the deep inner cosmos…
No dapper felines or environmentally conscious patas monkeys star in My Many Colored Days, a children’s book by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss). Published…
“I just keep banging away until it seems to be what I was shooting for,” says Rich Nelson, painter and rock musician. “It really…
Holland Van Gores has worked with wood his entire life, building everything from skateboards as a kid to custom houses in the Virgin Islands….
Cynthia L. Wilson was a young grad student at the University of Alabama when her mother died. “I didn’t have a very good way…
Bobbie Polizzi, who brands her work as “Junk & Disorderly,” moved to WNC in 1997 as a product-design executive for a manufacturing company. She’s…
After a career as a massage therapist, Lucy Clark touched clay for the first time at age 45. And that was it. “Clay is…