“…My work is informed by story would of course have its roots in me being an Appalachian child… I can put [my Appalachian influences] in my artwork like an old country song and something will happen.” Susan Fecho is a multi-media artist working in printmaking, textile surface design, illustration, and more. In this Arrowmont Craft…

In the fall of 2018, New York artist Elissa Bromberg met Asheville couple Jean Shortall and John Olsen at Arrowmont’s third Figurative Symposium. It was their first time at Arrowmont, but it wouldn’t be their last.   They were drawn together through the experiences they shared at the Symposium and an admiration for the presenting…

Alex Merchant lives comfortably in in-between spaces. His work examines what people do and say in physical and digital spaces; finding common ground will still revealing ideological or aesthetic dissonance through layered images. He uses his own life as a lens to view ambiguous spaces as someone raised in a household both white and Black,…