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…
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…
Coffee may rule the breakfast table and the workplace, but tea aspires to more contemplative moments in more tranquil surroundings. This spring and summer,…
Growing up in Brooklyn, Asheville artist Cleaster Cotton remembers the day her mother brought home an injured bird. “My mother was an activist for…
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,…
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…
Jacqui Fehl’s mixed-media creations on wood, paper, and canvas — exuberantly colorful and creatively elusive — are the result of a freewheeling attitude that…
Not long after Carla and Greg Filippelli moved to the southern mountains from the Northeast 40 years ago, Greg brought home a damaged woven…
Nothing evokes timelessness more than plain dirt, sculpted by the heat, rain, and wind of countless millennia into the foundation of everything that grows….
The launch of this summer’s blockbuster exhibit of outdoor sculpture by glass star Dale Chihuly at Biltmore House was the opening salvo. Now, a…
Colin Richmond has had to stop counting his sheep. “My flock has gotten too big to remember without checking my website,” he admits. “I…