“Of Course, Chaos”
Fresco master muses on war, work, and the gravity of authenticity Artist Benjamin F. Long IV, who relocated from Asheville to Brevard not long…
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Mail Art show takes on new dimension in 2020 Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Black Mountain is encouraging artists to address undressed submissions…
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Eight Feet of Empowerment
Hendersonville artist makes largest La Catrinas in U.S. Hola Carolina, a WNC nonprofit devoted to promotion of Latinx culture, has found a larger-than-life way…
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Thoughts, Prayers, and Visual Art
The Reverend Tim Jones at St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville recently got to combine one of his passions — poetry — with his…
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Leaving the Log Cabin Far Behind
Abstract quilter prefers to work in solitude One day nearly 45 years ago, Lynne Harrill decided to make a quilt. It was during a…
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“Intimacy Despite Distance”
Art on Main does as much as it can with a virtual platform Becky Smith forges fairytales. A Canton-based jewelry artist, Smith writes fables…
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The School of Hardwood Knocks
Sculptor went around the world to come home When Brevard artist Scott Kentner arrived in East Tennessee, at the age of seven, a new…
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Greetings From a Renaissance Crafter
Although Hendersonville artist Donna Leven says woodworking has long been her favorite craft, it’s the woven baskets she’s been making all her adult…
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Night and Day, Sun and Moon
Elizabeth McAfee would prefer not to be known as “the rabbit lady” or “the cat lady,” even though her art has prominently featured those animals for many years. “Now I may be moving into ‘possum lady’ status,” jokes the artist, referring to her recent string of paintings that pay homage to America’s only marsupial.
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The Tools That Take You Higher
If your father races motorcycles, he can’t tell you not to be an artist. Michael Sherrill says his dad was “enough of a rebel that it gave me permission to not fit into certain middle-class constraints. He encouraged me to not give up on my dream of doing what I’m passionate about.”
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