Greetings From Asheville: Tourism and Transformation in the Postcard Age
Long before inboxes and Instagram, Asheville sold itself in glossy four-by-sixes. Greetings From Asheville: Tourism and Transformation in the Postcard Age, running through May…
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The Sound of Color
Kelly Saunders doesn’t just paint what she sees — she paints what she hears. In her new solo exhibit The Sound of Color, on…
Sound Envisioned
In Western North Carolina, it’s not unusual to find a plein air painter who moonlights in a bluegrass trio or a sculptor with more…
Haywood Community College Graduate Show
Every spring, the Southern Highland Craft Guild spotlights the next generation of makers with a show featuring recent graduates of Haywood Community College’s Professional…
Making Impressions on Higher Ground
After anchoring the printmaking scene in the River Arts District for years, Denise Markbreit and Anna Bryant have launched a new chapter downtown. Print…
Tuning Into Tradition
As a master luthier with more than 40 years of experience, John Kinnaird has one goal: to craft a guitar that looks as stunning…
From Wheel to Meal
On Sunday, May 18, a group of local potters will turn their craft into compassion during Empty Bowls. Now in its eighth year, the…
Deep Cut
Pine trees have their limits. Asheville sculptor and art educator Thomas Schram learned this as a young boy growing up in North Carolina’s Piedmont…
Creative Heights
In 1875, Highlands began as a high-elevation haven for those seeking relief from heat and humidity. But the summer colony quickly transformed into a…
A New Layer of Talent
Gallery Row, the one-mile arts district made up of Biltmore Avenue and Broadway Street, just acquired one more creative: Rand Kramer. Now represented by…
From Destruction to Creation
In those long, shapeless days after Hurricane Helene, Asheville mixed-media artist Li Newton says she “moved through the chaos on automatic — shutdown from reality.” Existing…
Weaving Through Loss
When Hurricane Helene barreled into Western North Carolina, weaver Emelie Weber Wade retreated from her first-floor apartment in Biltmore Village to a friend’s nearby…
That’s Her Transfiguration
Fear can limit you. Alexander artist Chrys Corn Goodman knows this firsthand. Growing up in San Francisco, Goodman always wanted to be an artist….
Gallery Interrupted
What happens to a dream deferred by ongoing road construction? For Julie and Phil Wilmot, owners of Art on 7th in Hendersonville, that dream…
Petal Power
“It’s what keeps me alive,” Marshall artist Susan McChesney said of her chosen medium — pressed-flower art — during an interview with Asheville Made back…
Mending Through the Mud
MaryJane Findley knows how it feels to fall apart at the seams. In 2001, she was living in Astoria, New York, with her then-husband,…
