Work of the Week

The craft community of Western North Carolina lost an important member last month. Billie Ruth Sudduth (Sewanee, TN 1945–2021 New Bern, NC) passed away on

Imagine catching a 4:35pm train from Penn Station in New York City and arriving in Black Mountain, North Carolina at 8:35am the next morning, just

Ruth Asawa (Norwalk, CA 1926–2013 San Francisco, CA) enrolled at Black Mountain College in summer 1946. In Josef Albers’s design class, students used materials such

The Mountain Lake Workshop originated in 1980 as a series of conferences founded by artist and curator Ray Kass and co-directed by art historian Howard

Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander (born Lahore, Pakistan 1969) takes both formal and political approaches to traditional Indo-Persian art forms, placing emphasis on provenance and

Raised on the Apsáalooke reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is directly inspired by her culture. Like all of her work, the Four Seasons series

Western North Carolina’s Pisgah Forest Pottery, the third and final studio established by artist Walter B. Stephen, is one of many producers important to the

  Like much of Jeff Koons’s artwork, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank explores consumerism and the fetishization of everyday objects. In this case, the object

Will Henry Stevens is considered one of the most important Southern modernist painters. Shaped by his upbringing on the Ohio River, he had a lifelong

BACKGROUND After working in Cubist and Surrealist idioms in the 1930s and 1940s, Louise Nevelson began to create dynamic, muscular, often monumentally scaled abstract sculptures