“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…
Art + Craft
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…
Stone Circles and Dolmens
byLandscape architect Mark Connelley found himself at a turning point in his life and decided to take a solo vacation to Ireland. In addition…
A Clean Slate
byThe mythologist Joseph Campbell once said, “If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.” Asheville…
Garden of Verses
byMolly Courcelle recalls her favorite art class in college: live drawing, where each student had just one minute to capture the model’s form. That…
The Arts Insider
byLongtime gallery manager Sherry Masters launches a new venture to connect artists and collectors
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…