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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Hidden Talents
Linda Hudgins’ studio is tucked away in the basement of a small house in a secluded corner of Tryon, a sheltered space where one…
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Deere Me!
Bobby Barnes always felt there was something missing while he was growing up on his father’s 70-acre farm in Mills River, not far from…
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Apple Lore – Reminiscing About Apple Fests of the Past
The names roll off the tongue like poetry — Starkcrimson, Vance Red Sport, Double Red Rome, Early June. They’re the names of varieties of…
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The Light Pours Out Of Me
The art world often treats landscapes as a kind of quaint holdover from simpler times, when Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and their Hudson River…
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