Blue Ridge Blankets Project Promotes the Regional Fiber Economy
byEvery night, Sharon and Seth Dubuc count sheep — 140, to be exact. The mental exercise isn’t a way of remedying insomnia but rather…
Art + Craft
The Choreography of Clay
byAsheville ceramics artist Mary LaBianca, proprietor of Tiny Mountain Clay, holds an MFA from Mills College and worked as a choreographer and dance teacher…
By the Book
byThere are few places in the world where you can learn how to shear Suffolk sheep, make mirthful marionettes, and carve statuettes of wildfowl…
Indelible Ink: Exploring the humanitarian imprint of a prolific American icon
by“I called him by his nickname, Romy, and thought of him almost like another grandfather,” confides gallerist and former Mint Museum curator Jerald Melberg,…
The Dustbowl Effect Does Delivery
byArtist Sara Mulvey utilizes historic 19th-century photographic processes to create medium, large, and ultra-large format images printed on metal or glass. The expressive portraits,…
Porcelain Artist Refines her Kintsugi-inspired Work
byAt first glance, Deneece Harrell’s pieces seem to have been salvaged from devastation — or at least from a process gone seriously awry. But…
A Family Business Came Out of the Woodwork
byBryan and Erin Kerr knew that following the entrepreneurial urge to launch their own family business meant leaving satisfying, good-paying jobs behind and stepping…
Enamelist Explores the Hard edges of Whimsy
byMaking art and making a living are often hard to reconcile, but for Asheville artist Joanne Bossert, a long-gestating desire to turn full time…
The Art and Soul of Hand Weaving
byThe colorful history of Crossnore Weavers threads back to 1923, when Dr. Mary Martin Sloop — founder, with her husband Dr. Eustace Sloop, of…
Stylist Uses her Skillset to Carve Heirloom Kitchenware
byMichelle Wanat’s path to being a working artist has more bumps and bends than the gnarly wooden branches she now fashions into striking but…