The Arts Insider
byLongtime gallery manager Sherry Masters launches a new venture to connect artists and collectors
Art + Craft
A Certain Ratio
byThough Asheville artist Philip DeAngelo’s work is typically divided by bold horizon lines based on the Golden Ratio, an ideological and mathematical proportion that’s…
Artistic Alchemy
bySusan Barrett started out in college as a chemistry major. She took pottery as an elective: essentially a blow-off class. But something happened when…
Raising Cain
byOn the wall of Brandy Clements and Dave Klingler’s Depot Street studio, wooden chairs hang, seatless, waiting to be made useful again. Because their…
Murmurs of the Heart
byThe woman in the elegant, understated full-length gown leans a little tentatively into the horizon with her back to the viewer, facing the brooding storm…
Rickety, Rackety
by“At first glance, you think they just might work. But any engineer will tell you that they won’t,” says Asheville artist Kathryn B. Philips….
The Lace Effect
byA few generations ago, nearly every bride started her marriage with a hope chest full of handmade lace tablecloths and doilies, lovingly made by…
Sculpting Personalities
byMore than 40 years ago, just after her first child was born, Akira Blount found herself fashioning peculiar stuffed toys from old socks for…
High Contrast
byLandscape photographer John Smith did not take the transition from film to digital lightly. He recalls starting his photographic journey as “a little lizard,”…
Dovetails and Dragonflies
byAt Boston’s renowned North Bennet Street School (the oldest trade school in the U.S.), woodworking students spend two years immersed in American furniture making…