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….
Art + Craft
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…
“The Modern Tribal Experience”
byWood sculptor George Peterson first stepped on a skateboard in 1972, when he was just six years old. Back then, the layered plywood under…
Chaotic Happiness and Other Adventures
byMark Bettis has been painting since he was a child. Of course, he received the same advice from guidance counselors that most young artists…
Pushing Basketry’s Boundaries
byAcclaimed Asheville basketmaker Matt Tommey can also weave a great tale. He starts his story in rural South Georgia with a young and curious…