Power of the Palette
There came a day some years ago when Hendersonville painter Beverly Kies found herself in a bit of a crisis. She, her husband, and…
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Her Natural Habitat
If there’s such a thing as an artist-omnivore, that’s Heidi Mayfield. Over the years, the Hendersonville painter has worked in batik, oils, acrylics, charcoal,…
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No Worriessssss….
It’s not everywhere you can find a two-headed corn snake, or an albino eastern hognose snake or an Ethiopian mountain viper. That may be…
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Lady of the Rings
Of all the ways we express ourselves creatively, how we adorn ourselves may be the earliest. Jewelry making, in particular, combines the most primal…
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Appalachian Spring
Among Hendersonville’s news-making cultural attractions is its symphony orchestra — such a phenomenon, given its unlikely setting, that it headed the list in USA…
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As the Harrow Turns
Keith Berner found his ideal job some years ago when he took a position at the Genesee Country Village and Museum, near Lake Ontario…
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The Positives of Negative Space
Science and art have always enjoyed a cozy partnership, rooted as they are in form, proportion, and pattern. Painters from Da Vinci to Dalì…
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Hendersonville’s Big Band Plays On
When Jerry Zink was growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1930s, there was always music. And not just any music, but Big Band…
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Found at Sea
Not so very long ago, before the chatty navigation system in your car came along, venturing from a familiar Point A to an unfamiliar…
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Soul Mission: Portrait Artist Abstracts Her Subjects
Thirty years ago, Hendersonville artist Laurie Yeates Adams had threaded her way through multiple professions — as a bakery chef, a special-events manager, a…
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