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WORKING TOGETHER: BARBARA & HUGH WEBB by Janet Wiseman   Barbara Webb started her career in craft up-cycling found driftwood from the shores of Lake Superior to make buttons and painted pins. When her husband Hugh retired in the late 1960s from working at a phone company, he became her craft partner. Hugh prepares the…

WOMEN OF THE GUILD Our History of Promoting Women’s Crafts During the Great Depression, opportunities for women in the South were mainly limited to farm work or mill labor, with hardly any economic equality or security. The Southern Highland Craft Guild was a unique entity that helped rural women achieve independence through their craftwork and contributed to…

Angelique Tassistro Painted Ceramics Asheville, NC Angelique Tassistro is a nationally-recognized ceramic artist who creates functional pottery with a sculptural approach. Her belief in the magic of creativity inspired her signature process, original aesthetic in the realm of ceramics, award-winning career, and the bolstering of Asheville’s celebrated arts scene. Angelique’s work is playful and vibrant,…

Jim Burchett Glass Lenoir, NC Jim lives and works in the beautiful foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Lenoir NC. He is largly self taught and continues to experiment with trying to bring the beauty and utility of Glass into daily life through his art.My influences include both the natural and undersea world both here…

Diana Gillispie Minimalist Pottery | Tiles & Functional Ceramics Asheville, NC Diana Gillispie is both a potter and tile maker. For the past 20 years she’s focused on hand made ceramic tile. Recently she has expanded to include a line of contemporary pottery. Minimalistic in design, her work is inspired by asian ceramics, primarily Japanese.…

Julie Calhoun-Roepnack Carved Ceramics Asheville, NC Julie designs a distinctive mid-range (cone 6 electric), lead-free, fully functional stoneware collection.Inspired by the beauty and flora of western North Carolina’s stately pines, majestic oaks, lush shrubbery, rolling landscapes and open sky, her hand-carved originals offer a balanced and breathtaking nature-scape. Each unique piece features exquisite images of…

Amy Goldstein-Rice Clay Sculpture Tryon, NC The imagery of animals had its beginnings with the birth of my son (Ryan). It was during those early years, that our house was filled with pull toys and spinning tops. We (Frank and I) put down the classic to read the nonsensical stories of Dr. Seuss. We discovered…

Sue Grier Ceramics Asheville, NC Working with clay is very ‘process oriented’ – this is the attraction. I work primarily from wheel-thrown components. I am only half teasing when I say that the clay keeps a person ‘centered’. Beyond the throwing – mesmerizing & meditative as that can be – there is the quality of…