Understanding the Opossum
Beginning carving class is a jump into the wild Bernard Edwards carved his first duck decoy 40 years ago. As a young man, he…
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Portrait of a New Direction
Photographer guides her business down a painterly path As an equal-opportunity disrupter, the pandemic hasn’t spared the arts community, with shuttered museums and galleries…
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“Of Course, Chaos”
Fresco master muses on war, work, and the gravity of authenticity Artist Benjamin F. Long IV, who relocated from Asheville to Brevard not long…
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Card Catalog 2020
Homebound reading by the numbers The pandemic lockdown has been vexing to any number of businesses and service providers, but has been uniquely challenging…
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Special Delivery
Mail Art show takes on new dimension in 2020 Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Black Mountain is encouraging artists to address undressed submissions…
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Eight Feet of Empowerment
Hendersonville artist makes largest La Catrinas in U.S. Hola Carolina, a WNC nonprofit devoted to promotion of Latinx culture, has found a larger-than-life way…
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Creativity in Crisis
World-class film event weathers worldwide challenges When they first launched the Tryon International Film Festival five years ago, Beau Menetre and Kirk Gollwitzer aimed…
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Thoughts, Prayers, and Visual Art
The Reverend Tim Jones at St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville recently got to combine one of his passions — poetry — with his…
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Leaving the Log Cabin Far Behind
Abstract quilter prefers to work in solitude One day nearly 45 years ago, Lynne Harrill decided to make a quilt. It was during a…
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New Catharsis, New Classroom
Online poetry workshop stresses form and feeling This has been a year for lockdown-inspired introspection, and now there’s an opportunity to turn those inner…
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