The eclectic and beautiful neighborhood of Kenilworth will again welcome folks in search of inspiration and wondrous wares to the home studios of artists and craftspeople who live along the streets of this historic residential area near downtown Asheville. In this off-square, hill-and-gully neighborhood, where most roads headContinue Reading
Seven Sisters Gallery is mounting an exciting, new exhibit this month featuring sculptural leaves made by Black Mountain artist, John Wayne Jackson. Jackson takes imprints of real leaves and duplicates them using his own proprietary composite, then painting them with dyes. The result is a luminously beautiful replica of nature,Continue Reading
Makers of the Southern Highland Craft Guild are preparing for the launch of their 2017 special event programming at the Folk Art Center with the second annual Glass and Metal Day. On Saturday, April 1, nearly fifteen Guild members will showcase their skills and techniques of glass and metal in the auditorium ofContinue Reading
Kenn Kotara to feature “Asleep in the Valley” at Art Affair 2017 By Lauren Stepp When Kenn Kotara says he finds couplets and tetrameter in his art, he’s not just waxing poetic. His “Asleep in the Valley,” a copper installation of hand-hammered braille, features modernist Arthur Rimbaud’s classicContinue Reading
42 Master Potters Showcase Their Work at WNC Pottery Festival On November 5, 42 potters from across the country will come to the Western North Carolina town of Dillsboro for the 12th Annual WNC Pottery Festival. Jackson County’s own Joe Frank McKee of Tree House Pottery co-founded the festival. “I can’tContinue Reading
Haywood County Arts Council Hosts Studio Tour Artists This October Beginning October 7, the Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) will proudly host artists from the Haywood Art Studio Tour in the HCAC Gallery & Gifts space at 86 N. Main Street. The show will offer a sampling of work fromContinue Reading
Five Great Crafts Made in the Mountains of WNC Appalachian heritage in North Carolina spans beyond hand-made pieces of artwork. In Jackson County, local artisans and crafters tell tales of the mountains through pottery, paintings, fly rods, beer and chocolate. Take a piece of the mountains home with these five localContinue Reading
Artists, RiverLink and Zealandia Holding Company Celebrate the French Broad River Asheville’s premier landscape painters celebrate the French Broad River’s rise from polluted obscurity to the defining element of the South’s most exciting city at Of Time and the River: the Third Annual Art Show and Gala to Benefit RiverLink.Continue Reading
The Jackson County Arts Council in Sylva, N.C. announces a new exhibit entitled “Fear No Art” by Isabella Jacovino, an artist and author of many dark-epic fantasy novels. Using the grit, grime and socially provocative nature of “guerilla art” as a foundation and blending influences from Dadaism alongside digital elementsContinue Reading
