Books Without Borders
Combining her interests in handmade books, libraries, information exchange and social justice, Bridget Elmer produces works of art that go beyond the book —…
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Off Shoot
Joe Gemignani has spent three decades shooting high-end commercial assignments but had a late start. The Brooklyn native was 26 when he bought his…
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Square Roots
On the surface of it, the curving lines in Asheville artist Kenn Kotara’s paintings and sculptures are abstractions, lyrical studies in the division of…
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Guerilla Photographer, Urban Explorer
Guerilla photography may be the best way to describe Walter Arnold’s passion for recording little known, often abandoned, and sometimes downright dangerous subjects. There…
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Ladies of a Certain Age
Kreh Mellick is sitting in her studio leafing through a book about crinolines from the 1800s. “It sounds so cliché to say this, but…
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Happily After Crafters
In our fast-food, big-box world, everything from the clothes we wear to the plates we eat from can be made cheap—used up and thrown…
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Architects Prove their Artistic Sides Extend Beyond Building Design
Asheville has long held a favored spot in the hearts of architecture aficionados, beloved for its eclectic range of styles from the Gothic-inspired Grove…
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Heart of Glass
In Anna Helfand’s native region of Southern Poland, reverse painting on glass is a folk craft with roots going back to the 18th century….
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Functional to Sculptural
“Back in the ’70s,” says Ann Gleason, “you had to be on a long waiting list to get into ceramics class—it was prime hippie…
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Sofa So Good
As an artist, Constance Vlahoulis has heard many an art lover utter some variation of the following comment : “Boy, I really like that,…
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