“Real Men Buy Dolls”
byThe intimacy of making art is nowhere better represented than in the tactile bond between hand and needle, needle and thread, thread and fabric….
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…
Every book, says Mary Carol Koester, holds two histories. The first fills the pages — the genealogy in an old family Bible, for example,…
At 69 years old and with nearly 40 years of “slow cloth” work under her belt, Eileen Hallman of Black Mountain is in no…
When Matthew Shirey was 19, he phoned his father and told him he had found his life’s calling: to become a blacksmith. “You’re never…
It often seems as though the pace of life is quickening at the expense of quality time — and quality goods. If there’s a…
When Gilbert Jason Contreras entered remission after six months of chemo, he knew he couldn’t return to his old life. “My oncologist told me,…
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…
She — Cuban expatriate Carmen Grier — is the creator. But she likes the term “créateur.” In that mode, her husband, psychiatrist and businessman…