Dolls Have Their Day: Expo at Ag Center Coincides With International Event
In Japan, March 3 is “Hinamatsuri,” a commemoration that is variously styled “Doll Festival” or “Girls’ Day.” The double translation is interesting: dolls in…
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Instructive Criticism: Art Teachers Show Their Work
In another exhibit opening this week, the Arts Council of Henderson County celebrates the work of local art teachers. As part of council’s arts-in-education…
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Best Shot: Land of Waterfalls Camera Club Shows Its Best Work
It’s good to be a photographer living in Transylvania County, where more than 250 natural cascades allow the area to call itself “The Land…
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Fleeting Beauty: Crate Wine Market + Project Launches Inaugural Exhibit
“Crate Project was originally and intentionally conceived to help Crate Wine Market transcend from being a typical retail wine shop and transform it into…
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Plot Twist
Phil Arrington’s “eureka” rush arrived like a door banging open, bringing in a blast of fresh air. He was living in chilly Minneapolis, working…
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Spin City: Heritage Weavers & Fiber Artists Holds Annual Expo
A consortium of makers headquartered in the old boarding house at Historic Johnson Farm, Heritage Weavers & Fiber Artists continue the legacy of Appalachian…
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Shaping 2017: Mountain Creative Arts Counseling Holds a Vision Board Workshop
It’s not even the end of January, and already life feels turbulent. But attendees at “Visioning 2017: A Vision Board Workshop” on Saturday, January…
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In the Bleak Midwinter
After January 1, with its nerve-wracking but somehow exhilarating pressures of self-renewal, there’s an interval of icy pause. The question looms: what now? And…
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A Long Fuse
If genes are our fate, Diane Dean’s were knit into her DNA early on. As a child, she was surrounded by creative women who…
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All is Calm, All is Brighter
Creativity gives perspective to our problems, and “the insights that come to us as we are being creative are the keys to our personal…
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