The Way to Stay “Creatively Unemployed” is to Never Stop Working
byMost artists who’ve been working for 55 years have an audience in mind. But John D. Richards just takes the ideas he says “pop…
Most artists who’ve been working for 55 years have an audience in mind. But John D. Richards just takes the ideas he says “pop…
Scott Summerfield prefers to work alone. Not surprising when you learn he was an only child who grew up on a sparsely populated barrier…
Neil Carroll doesn’t see much artistic difference between painting and folding clothes. Or making furniture and baking cookies. “My approach is the same,” he…
The year was 1980. Jennifer Jenkins had decided to preview the weaving program offered at Haywood Community College, but she didn’t stay for the…
Many artists have drawn inspiration from the mountains and forests surrounding Western North Carolina. But for painter/illustrator Sarah Faulkner, that outdoor beauty has to…
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…
Fian Arroyo is a big-time illustrator with a client roster that includes Scholastic, Boy Scouts of America, Miller Lite, US News and World Report,…
Erica Stankwytch Bailey’s earliest art project was shaded by science. “When I was probably six years old, I would take my crayons and a…
Standing in the middle of the stream, Jason Janow tucks his fly rod under his arm, reaches into the water, and picks up a…