Showing posts from: The Arts
For Katrina Sanchez Standfield, fiber art is family
Standfield’s art aims to show people that textiles can be more than just hobbies or cultural practices
Into being
Painter Herb Jackson creates meticulous, vibrant abstracts.
2022 Fall arts preview
Don’t hold your applause: Here are 20 reasons we’re excited to be part of an audience this fall.
Life in bloom
Artist and designer Bari J. Ackerman can’t stop creating.
Summer reading issue 2022
In the hands of a fine craftsman, a sense of place in a piece of fiction can be so compelling it almost becomes its own character in the narrative.
Romantic fever
The house I grew up in was one of a row of houses strung along a narrow river bottom like a string of beads. We were not allowed to play in the river because they washed coal in it, upstream.
Kephart
He had first visited wild places as a teenager, camping and hiking in the Adirondacks of upper New York state. When he’d taken a head librarian position in Saint Louis, there had been camping trips to nearby forests.
The first funeral
My first funeral in the Funeral Militia
Planting possibility
A Davidson College art installation encourages conversation about the history of the Catawba Nation’s ancestral land — and reintroduces an ancient crop.
CLOSET CRUSH: Kent Youngstrom
Artist Kent Youngstrom shares his one-of-a-kind personal style — and a peek inside his Charlotte studio.