“My Own Best Work”
byPotters are everywhere in Western North Carolina, but Rodney Leftwich gets a shelf all to himself — not just because he’s a mountain native,…
Art + Craft
Greenville street festival puts its money where its brush is
byArtisphere doesn’t hold back in expression. It’s centered around Greenville’s downtown waterfall and grows a culture by routing hundreds of thousands of dollars back…
Design of the Times
byNotching a name for itself in an abundance of similar seasonal events, Tryon’s Arts & Flowers Festival combines a spring plant show with a…
Not a Rush Job
byA hand-caned chair seat appears rustic and comfortable. But it carries a lot more weight beyond its function and simple elegance. The style is…
Something Good is About to Happen
byLinda McCane Gritta’s artistic epiphany was swift and intense — like a window flung open to reveal an unsuspected landscape. It also came early,…
A New Leaf
byIt’s unusual that a self-styled “red-blooded American male” with a name like John Wayne Jackson would give props to homemaking icon Martha Stewart. Yet…
Shady Grove
byIn the cold light of a winter’s day, Leah Baker returned to lamps. Maybe the bitter air and waning afternoons of 2012 inspired her,…
Identity Amid the Ashes
byWhen one door closes, the saying goes, another opens. Sometimes it slams shut — and so the new portal is that much more dramatic….
Forever Plants
byShe’s a jewelry designer who grew bored with what she calls “the whole natural-gemstones thing.” Raised in tiny Newton, NC, by an assemblage-artist mother…
Going with the Grain
bySome artisans are considered “wood whisperers” because they seem to be able to talk to wood and have it submit to their will. Koli…