Lights, camera … sarcasm! While it’s still possible that locally produced indie flick A Dance For Bethany will be a cinematic train wreck (first-time director, writers and producers all around), the movie could very well be a needed boost of recognition for many local artists. Thank Production Designer Gayle Wurthner, who managed to rope in … Read more
• Congratulations to Candler’s Geoffrey D. Giles, who has won the New Talent Award from the American Jewelry Design Council and the coveted Abelson New Designer of the Year Award — in the same year! Giles works in 18K gold and makes one-of a-kind pieces with an industrial flair. • Robert and Arlene Winkler deserve … Read more
“We all know people, Indian and non-Indian, who have no soul,” says Native American author MariJo Moore, a WNC writer with more than a dozen titles and numerous literary awards to her credit. “People,” she continues, “who have destroyed the lives of others, and continue to do so, by making greed-based decisions that will affect … Read more
“Kitchen,” 4×6″, watercolor, gouache, graphite and conte crayon on Fabriano paper. Artists who use their exotic travels as inspiration are sometimes cautioned that they might make more authentic work by painting or drawing the things they know best. Charles Ritchie has taken this warning to heart. For more than 20 years, he has described in … Read more
Still trotting along: Mark Linkous walks a lonely road to fame. (c) Tim Saccenti “For a while there, I just gave up,” says Mark Linkous. “And I was sure that everyone had given up on me and moved on.” It’s as heart-rending as it is perplexing to hear such self-doubt from Linkous, the creative maestro … Read more
