Land of Opportunity
Captured on phone or film, most of our region’s white squirrels tend to look stoic — slightly spooked at worst. They’re usually bunched up…
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The Strongest Impression
Like a teenager of any generation, Cathy Burgess was impressionable. Doubly so: she had her most important youthful epiphany at the Museum of Modern…
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Somewhere Between Structure & Spontaneity
Joel Edwards already wears several artist’s hats — accomplished portraitist, teacher, gallery owner. And now a previously unacknowledged influence in his early training finds…
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New Wave
A compelling self-portrait by eighth grader Sophia Beck was among the 49 artworks (out of 177 submissions) that debuted last month for this season’s…
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The Luminous Late Start
Lenore Barnett tentatively signed up for a six-week art class three decades ago. Within a few short years, she made a name for herself…
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A Way of Seeing
The video camera on Apple’s latest iPhone can record 30 frames per second in 4K resolution, continuously stabilize and focus the shot, and share…
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Flying Away from Human Mentors
Hendersonville may be a few hundred miles from the ocean, but the recent renovation and reopening of the Team Ecco Aquarium & Shark Lab,…
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The Sisyphean Struggle in Bronze
Sometimes the creative impulse has to bide its time. Fred McMullen waited until the last of his four children had graduated from high school…
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Art of the Horse steps up to acknowledge a banner equestrian year
Since 1947, Polk County has hosted the Block House Steeplechase — a sterling series of races first organized by legendary horseman Austin Brown. This…
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Mixed-media artist still feels the pull of classical European influences
As a young girl, Cathryn Cooper was already a collector of odd bits of paper, leaves, ribbons — anything that caught her eye. “I…
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