The Write Stuff
As a middle school art teacher, Erin Keane invited a local artist to give a presentation to her classroom. The artist’s medium was bookmaking…
Read MoreAs a middle school art teacher, Erin Keane invited a local artist to give a presentation to her classroom. The artist’s medium was bookmaking…
Read MoreWhen Ansel Adams issued his famous dictum — “You don’t take a photograph. You make it.” — he had no notion of cellphone cameras,…
Read MoreArtists may labor in solitude but few wish to labor in obscurity, so a community that shows its support for the arts is a…
Read MoreWhen Bruce Johnson was a teenager, his father gave him an Arts and Crafts drop-front desk, which Johnson promptly covered with baseball decals. “I’ll…
Read MoreHendersonville artist Bobbie Polizzi knows better than anybody that one person’s trash can be another person’s treasure. But she takes it a step further,…
Read MoreAnyone who knows Jolene Mechanic, art activist and director of the Phil Mechanic Studios in the River Arts District, knows her dedication to children….
Read MoreJimmy O’Neal gets a lot of questions about his new mural on the wall of 5 Walnut Wine Bar. And without context, his answers…
Read More“Yohaku no bi” is a Japanese term found in art and architecture, roughly translated as “the beauty of open space.” When artists are presented…
Read MoreIn the late 1980s, when Brian Mashburn was barely ten years old, his Chinese-born mother sent Brian and his brother to Saturday classes in…
Read MoreIf the task of an artist is to explain the world to us, then the work of Hendersonville painter Harry Wozniak is a rewarding…
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