Little Fatty & Potato Boy
To study the art of Julie Armbruster is to enter into a strange world shaded with menace, humor, loneliness and hope, the murky landscape…
Read MoreTo study the art of Julie Armbruster is to enter into a strange world shaded with menace, humor, loneliness and hope, the murky landscape…
Read MoreThe cosmopolitan author William Henry Porter, famously known as O. Henry, who often visited Western North Carolina with his Asheville-born wife, complained “I could…
Read MoreWhen the art world discovered Grandma Moses over 70 years ago, it struggled to avoid sounding patronizing about the simple images and colors of…
Read MoreThe career arc of most artists includes the explosive moment when a very specific means of creative expression opens before them, the doorway through…
Read MoreThe word “plastic,” like the material it describes, can take on a variety of functions. Besides being the name given to any one of…
Read More1933 was a notable year for the arts in Western North Carolina. It was the year that Black Mountain College, the nation’s first school…
Read MoreWhen he was about seven years old, Mark DeVerges had a magical experience, in the most literal sense. He was part of a children’s…
Read MoreNearly 25 years ago, when Linda and Ron Sokalski were thinking of indulging their love of Spain by purchasing a second home there, they…
Read MoreMary Louise Bailey remembers when the big attraction in downtown Hendersonville was an embalmed, four-legged chicken on display at Shepherd’s Undertaking Parlor. It was…
Read MoreThe arrival of spring gladdens the hearts of gardeners and golfers, hikers and horse lovers, fishermen and free spirits. But few rejoice as jubilantly…
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