People Without the People Parts
Cassie Butcher remembers the conversation she once had with a five-year-old girl who had been studying the human-shaped but mostly featureless sculptures that Butcher…
Cassie Butcher remembers the conversation she once had with a five-year-old girl who had been studying the human-shaped but mostly featureless sculptures that Butcher…
If Rick Dunn had to pick his favorite item among the 75 classics he’s collected, it would have to be the birdhouse. It was…
Nature reveals her secrets slowly, but for those with the patience to look closely, deeper meanings can emerge. So it is for Asheville photographer…
Inspiration doesn’t always strike in the loveliest places. Metal artisan Pam Holthouser was working as an apprentice for a professional painting contractor, lending a…
During his 30 years living in his native Charleston, South Carolina, as a general contractor, David Ardis grew to appreciate fine craftsmanship. His specialty…
The intimacy of making art is nowhere better represented than in the tactile bond between hand and needle, needle and thread, thread and fabric….
Kirsten Stolle’s art provides a useful lesson in the difference between looking and seeing. Her 2016 series Chemical Bouquet, for example, is, at first…
When Joel Hunnicutt encountered a wood lathe more than 20 years ago, it was love at first touch. He’d decided to take a community-college…
Nissa Vrooman owes her artistic career to her son, Kyah, who is now 11 and the eldest of her two boys. When Kyah was…
Linda McCane Gritta’s artistic epiphany was swift and intense — like a window flung open to reveal an unsuspected landscape. It also came early,…