The Wood Spirit You Know
Carver’s work represents inaugural festival Chris Carroll looks at a just-fallen tree and sees a second chance. Maybe there’s a wood spirit in there,…
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Folklore to the Front
Exhibit features the most storied members of the animal kingdom Long before there were sword wielding, shapeshifting heroes and warrior turtles on our movie…
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That Other Place
Pen-and-ink artist imbues common yearnings with transcendence If looking at art is a portal to other worlds, Kate Sea Barrett stands just inside that…
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The Man Behind the Canvas
Series emphasizes artist/viewer interaction ArtMob’s studio’s three-month-long Front Porch series brings landscape artist Ed Morris to the studio this month, an appropriate setting for…
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Better Than Best in Show
Sixteenth annual exhibit is dripping with prize opportunities Sometimes art shows are curated to the extreme. Consider themes like “Pinhole Camera Photography Conducted in…
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Petal Power
New flowers-and-painting series features local art teacher Pam Hedstrom’s art form is flowers, much in evidence at her Flower Market near downtown Hendersonville, with…
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Thrilled to Pieces
They’re the jigsaw puzzles you won’t want to throw across the room Debra Mager was a successful corporate-marketing consultant who took a mosaic workshop…
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Dirty Fingernails Required
“Clay is everywhere,” declares Western North Carolina potter Josh Copus. “Finding a good source of wild clay isn’t as hard as most people think.” …
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Bee the Change
Grounded in a personal mission to paint 5,000 honeybees across the U.S., artist Matthew Willey has gone far beyond what he thought was attainable…
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From Hobby to Coping Strategy
Every piece of art carries a secret history, a record of its creation encodedin paint or metal or stone; or, for Columbus artist Libby…
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