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Artist Profiles
Lasting Impressions

Rows of elegantly formed, bisque-fired bowls, plates, and cups line floor-to-ceiling shelves in Keith Phillips’s spacious studio in Fletcher.
Fired Up!

Between mixing clays, crafting thousands of functional and decorative pottery pieces, blending his own glazes, and firing his creations in a self-built kiln, it’s a wonder Alex Matisse of East Fork Pottery in Marshall has time to host a fête.
The French Connection
The colorful landscapes and people of two very different regions inform the work of Asya Colie
 
The Beautiful Mind of Jimmy O'Neal

I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to find Jimmy O’neal’s studio, so he met me in Asheville.
Show & Tell
Fiber sculptor Anne Lemanski narrates messages through her delicate conceptual creatures
 
A Natural Touch

A 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina Asheville, Knight spent her college years exploring clay’s diverse artistic characteristics.
A Cut Above

At the hands of Leo Monahan, paper takes on a colorful,
three-dimensional life
Home Tweet Home

A thin piece of tin, measuring about one inch wide by nine inches long, feeds into a press. Don Stevenson carefully turns a crank until it slides out the other side.
Sense of Place

Architectural illustration goes beyond the blueprints of design.
Imagination Station

With her bold-patterned togs and jubilant grin, Margaret Couch Cogswell is a bright presence on the campus of Penland School of Crafts.