Blacksmith Transforms Steel into Art
byMetalworker Steve Joslyn sees beauty in every spark. His true passion is large-scale, intricate ironwork, but his artistic journey started with something much smaller….
Art + Craft
The Right Turn
byAnn Batton’s devotion to clay started with a detour. In 1996, she was a young marketing student at East Tennessee State University, studying statistics,…
Going Back in Time
byBecause his dad was part owner of a one-hour photo lab, Ben Nixon grew up immersed in film: the methods and the magic. “I…
Chip Off the Old Block
byKevin Hughes’ pedigree is carved in wood instead of stone. When you look at his work, you’re gazing at hundreds of years of heritage….
Waiting for Perfection
byLucy Clark walked into her first wheel-throwing lesson six years ago starry-eyed and ready to fall in love. She couldn’t wait to start the…
A Clear Path
byGlass, that most quotidian feature of our manufactured environments, is a playful medium. It can stand by quietly to allow light to pass through…
A Shift in her Stars
byMore than a decade ago, Melissa Moss was living in Los Angeles and not loving it. She was an executive in the production end…
Tuned to Tradition
byOne day some years ago, the musician Becky Cleland asked her husband Ben Seymour to find her a plucked psaltery, a many-stringed zither of…
The Way He Sees It
byArt collecting is an art unto itself for David Raymond, an internationally known collector of Surrealist and modernist photography. “I believe that really good…
Carving Something Wild
byNotched legs that look like the horns of a gazelle, tusks, and seed pods: they are all painstakingly carved from wood in Asheville artist Melissa…