Successful House Builder Turned Himself Into a Deconstructionist
byHolland Van Gores has worked with wood his entire life, building everything from skateboards as a kid to custom houses in the Virgin Islands….
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A Reflective Moment at the Water’s Edge Rippled into a Painting Career
byCynthia L. Wilson was a young grad student at the University of Alabama when her mother died. “I didn’t have a very good way…
Early Dumpster Diving Indicates a Future of Skulls and Watch Parts
byBobbie Polizzi, who brands her work as “Junk & Disorderly,” moved to WNC in 1997 as a product-design executive for a manufacturing company. She’s…
You Can’t Fall Off the Edge of a Rounded Vessel
byAfter a career as a massage therapist, Lucy Clark touched clay for the first time at age 45. And that was it. “Clay is…
Sometimes a Painter Has to be Quiet to Make a Scene
byLandscape painter Kate Thayer doesn’t just recognize earth tones. “All colors are in nature if we really see,” she says. But that kind of…
Live-Model Sculpting is the Very Shape of Intimacy
byRealist figurative painter/sculptor Angela Cunningham studied illustration at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, before earning her BFA at Laguna…