Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Polk County has a long and illustrious tradition as a creative hub. The artistic seed planted by Native American travelers bloomed with the arts…
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Shifting Perceptions
Making art has always had its subversive side, a deliberate attempt to manipulate perception and emotion. The most figurative of artists still fiddle with…
Read MoreTorching The Tube
Ah, the golden days of youth, the sunny hours spent in innocent pursuits! Games of tag, hide and seek, treasure hunting through forest and…
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The Blue & The Grey
When Michael Arrowood talks about a certain 19th-century national dispute, the words “Civil War” will pass his lips only reluctantly. Instead, he will point…
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The Bares Essentials
When Roger Bares decided ten years ago to write a book, it wasn’t Beyond The Sea: A Tale Of Love & War In The…
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Business is Booming
Amid the semi-rural serenity just outside the Greer, SC town limits sits an innocuous garage, its white door primly secured, its brown cladding muted…
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Schnurrbarts & Curlicues
Men, we need to have a serious discussion. Ladies may read on, but we will be discussing a subject one presumes is repugnant to…
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Conceptual Contraptions
Asheville artist Sylvie Rosenthal had two favorite places when she was five years old. One was in the basement of her house where, during…
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Fighting Fire With Fire
If that first grade fantasy of being a firefighter when you grew up is still lurking somewhere deep in your subconscious, it’s time to…
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Signs & Symbols
When Asheville artist Barbara Fisher began taking life drawing classes in college, dutifully trying to transfer the body human onto paper, something peculiar happened….
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