Shifting Symbols

Shifting Symbols

Tryon-based artist Margaret Curtis brings layered, large-scale work to a national stage this spring Tryon-based painter Margaret Curtis is entering a dynamic spring season,…

Decades in the Making

Decades in the Making

Seventy-year-old houses have stories to tell. They also have quirks to address. In this West Asheville home, one of those quirks was a too-small…

Where Craft Becomes Community

Where Craft Becomes Community

Join collectors and makers at the 39th Annual National Arts & Crafts Conference Few gatherings honor the handmade quite like the National Arts &…

The Giving Things

The Giving Things

Winter group show explores the beauty of everyday devotion When Hurricane Helene flooded her studio in Asheville’s River Arts District, Gretchen Chadwick had to…

Between Earth and Ether

Between Earth and Ether

Tryon Arts & Crafts School opens its winter season This winter, Tryon Arts & Crafts School (TACS) presents two exhibitions that move between the…

From Serenity to Spring

From Serenity to Spring

Asheville Gallery of Art opens the new year with fresh exhibitions For Western North Carolina painter Lindsay Keeling, creativity and structure go hand in…

Built by Generations

Built by Generations

Folk Art Center exhibition marks a century of making A century after its founding in Brasstown, the John C. Campbell Folk School continues to…

Framing the Positive

Framing the Positive

Haywood County home blurs the line between architecture and attitude “We’re optimists,” says the owner of a 120-acre property in Haywood County. When she and…

Grace on a Grade

Grace on a Grade

Mountaintop remodel makes room for living and leisure When a couple began renting a mountainside home north of downtown Asheville to escape the summer…

A Call to Hands

A Call to Hands

Local printmaker connects at the 39th National Arts & Crafts Conference The Arts & Crafts Movement, which took root in the late 19th century,…