Waxing Poetic
Painter’s encaustic panels tell a complicated story Every artwork carries within it a history of its creation. But in the case of encaustic, the…
Bright Lights, Craft City
An open-door policy makes lampmakers shine Contrary to the received wisdom about mixing business and friendship, Geoff Koslow and Billy Guilford’s Lexington Glassworks is…
Hundreds of Pieces and Only One Goal
Woodturner’s remarkably complicated vessels are all meant to be used When Allen Davis retired to the mountains of North Carolina 25 years ago, after…
What the Silkworm Saw
Weaver uses a magnifying glass to make her intricate patterns When Vicki Essig arrived in Western North Carolina more than two decades ago, the first…
One Way to Fly
Growing up in Brooklyn, Asheville artist Cleaster Cotton remembers the day her mother brought home an injured bird. “My mother was an activist for…
Iron Constitution
It’s a fitting career trajectory for a blacksmith: Matthew Waldrop forged his company, Northern Crescent Iron, the hard way. Success was followed by setbacks,…
Dangerously Beautiful
In an age when long-accepted boundaries of gender and politics are in flux, it’s not shocking that painting can burst out of its traditional…
Voice of Unreason
Jacqui Fehl’s mixed-media creations on wood, paper, and canvas — exuberantly colorful and creatively elusive — are the result of a freewheeling attitude that…
Random Acts of Basketry
Not long after Carla and Greg Filippelli moved to the southern mountains from the Northeast 40 years ago, Greg brought home a damaged woven…
Time to Flower
Nothing evokes timelessness more than plain dirt, sculpted by the heat, rain, and wind of countless millennia into the foundation of everything that grows….