The Handcrafted Centennial
Folk School celebrates 100 with comprehensive update of antique cabin In the first decades of the last century, a newly married northern couple arrived…
Steel At It
Blacksmith’s large decorative works span the Carolinas In the whirlwind of changing times, there’s something to be said for solidity. Few things communicate stability…
Beautifully Formed, Beautifully Transformed
Adding light and outdoor living to a Midcentury Modern rancher Architects are dreamers, conjuring form and structure where none may exist. But more challenging…
The Main Arena
Equestrian estate’s amenities include a curated creek Mountain architect Tab Bonidy is no stranger to large-scale projects, from 9,000-square-foot homes to recreation centers and…
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…