Arts and Performance

As COVID numbers drop and protocols loosen, theater and concert venue policies are all over the map. Some require vaccinations and masks. Others require neither. Some are strict enforcers of whatever policies they put in place, others not so much.

In the recording studio with Lena Machina of the Asheville goth rock band Secret Shame

The word anxiety comes up often as Zander Stefani describes his life. He said he channels some of it into his abstract artwork. “It’s like I’m painting…

A lot of artists will tell you an inner voice propels them to create. The Asheville playwright Jamie Knox says, for her, it’s often a voice that isn’t her…

Gavin Stewart and Vanessa Owen are rehearsing with two other dancers inside a studio at the Wortham Center for Performing Arts. Everyone is masked. “OK…

John and Cinnamon Kennedy formed their first band before they knew how to play their instruments.“One day, John and our neighbor were like ‘We’re making a…

Heather Newton's mother has written nine novels for young adults. She’s also the first to read and critique whatever Newton thinks is ready to go out into…

With a soft-spoken prayer, a few dozen members of the Eastern Band Cherokee welcomed others to view what they have held sacred for centuries: handcrafted…

When something catches Tema Stauffer’s eye, it’s through the lens of a camera using expandable bellows and 4-by-5-inch film.“I can spend quite a bit of…

It was only a few minutes after noon on Saturday when Tricia Arcos made her first sale at her first Big Crafty. “Excitement comes up in lots of forms,…