A Shared Vision
Under the direction of African-American art collector and activist John Wilkins of Tryon, the UNITY Project took shape this spring — a vibrant montage…
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Shadow Show
Surges of technology and centuries of tradition merge in the work of Hendersonville artist Christopher Charles Curtis, whose visually arresting drawings in graphite and…
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Staring Back at Flood Gallery
The co-publisher of Bold Life and Carolina Home + Garden, print magazines distinguished by their high-end photography, will show his fine-art images in an…
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Made to Whim, Not to Order
One day in the early 1970s, Rodney Leftwich came across a clay-fired pitcher of a kind he’d never seen before. “It had a fascinating,…
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The Other Side
The title conjures up old maxims about greener grass. It also suggests cosmic imaginings way outside the earthly realm. In one very real case,…
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An Unexpected Flowering
Eight years ago, when Flat Rock artist Barbara Remensnyder was 70 years old and had enjoyed a productive career in the arts for decades,…
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Flag Waving
On a recent visit to Winchester, Virginia, Costanza Knight saw the light behind the light. Strolling downtown, she noticed the lampposts lining Main Street….
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Painters Without Borders
Landscape is probably two-dimensional art’s most accessible form. But when painted scenes of photorealism or Monet-derived Impressionism are pushed into the realm of abstraction…
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Living Large: Fiber-art class reveals the muscle behind a historic artifact
When Congress voted yes to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1926, homesteaders inhabiting its hollers were forced to decamp. But the six…
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Exhibit at Crate Crystallizes the Emotion of Ephemera
Vanitas-style still lifes, when they first bloomed in the oils and temperas of the 14th- and 15th-century Flemish masters, showed the kind of macabre…
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