A Small Universe
The word “bog” may conjure up an insalubrious patch of muddy, mosquito-ridden terrain, but to photographer Michael Oppenheim, it is a small universe of…
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Running the General Store
Growing up in Statesville, where he still practices law, Michael Lassiter loved going to the Saturday movie matinee at the turn-of-the-century Playhouse Theatre on…
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Bone Deep
There’s no mystery about the source of Lauren Smucker’s art, no coy musings about inspiration in her artist’s statement. “My name is Lauren Smucker,”…
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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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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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Learning from the Past
During the first decades of the 20th century, a time marred by war and economic hardship, a unique model of activism emerged between an…
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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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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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News From the (Home) Front
Given the newly invigorated feminism sparked by recent events, it seems an appropriate time to examine one of the major influences that empowered women…
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The Real Nightingale Stands Up
We love to tell stories, and no stories resonate more familiarly than the folk tales passed down for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years….
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