The Oxbow and Other Epiphanies
Collection of important American paintings spends the winter in Asheville The history of art in America tends to focus on the prolific mid-twentieth century,…
Sculptures on Paper
Charcoal artist captures the expression of people and places As any art student discovers, creating a three-dimensional figure on a flat piece of paper…
Lost in the Moment
Painter’s mountain and coastal scenes are the work of intense absorption The standard job description for a landscape painter involves close observation, trial sketching,…
Turning the Page
Workshop shows how to turn an invasive grass into paper Where gardeners and landscapers see a menace, Alyssa Sacora sees opportunity. Rather than do…
Summer Reading with Shadows
Illustrator leans toward the moody and the Gothic Southern Gothic fiction is often a shadowy blend of the everyday and the otherworldly. Similarly, the…
A New Leaf
Potter quickly propagated a hobby into an art business Sydney Broach had dabbled in crafts before. “But nothing ever stuck,” she says, “until I…
Joe Bruneau’s Baskets are an Enchanting Blend of Utility and Aesthetics
Forty years ago, Joe Bruneau happened to take a weekend craft course to enhance his studies as an art major at Warren Wilson College….
Porcelain Artist Refines her Kintsugi-inspired Work
At first glance, Deneece Harrell’s pieces seem to have been salvaged from devastation — or at least from a process gone seriously awry. But…
Enamelist Explores the Hard edges of Whimsy
Making art and making a living are often hard to reconcile, but for Asheville artist Joanne Bossert, a long-gestating desire to turn full time…
Never the Same Thing Twice
Finding essential truths in the natural world Any visual artist putting paint to canvas faces a conundrum – how to convey the complexity of…