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May 19, 2015

Meet This Artist: JR Butler Makes an Impression

JR Butler laughing in his studio.

As a kid in rural New York, JR Butler wasn’t interested in becoming a fireman or a cowboy when he grew up. His dream was to become an artist. And… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: JR, JR Butler, nc arts incubator, pottery, Siler City

April 28, 2015

Meet This Artist: Lisbeth Hickey Dances with a New Generation

For Lisbeth Hickey as a child, summer time meant a four-hour sojourn to the small Colombian town of Natagaima, where her maternal grandparents lived and farmed. There she watched her cousins… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: clydeFEST, dance, Folkloric Dance, Latin Dance, lisbeth hickey, Spanish, takiri, takiri academy

March 10, 2015

Meet This Artist: Cuttin’ Up with Clyde Jones

Clyde Jones on a Critter

More than anything, Bynum folk art legend Clyde Jones likes to make children smile. He has an unconventional way of going about it – by revving up his chainsaw. It… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Clyde, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Critter, Critterville

February 10, 2015

Meet This Artist: Jonathan Davis Plays with Fire

With a 5,000 degree sabre of flame made of liquid oxygen and propane, Jonathan Davis spins, shapes, and blows molten glass into elaborate works of art at his studio in… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: glass blowing, Jonathan Davis, Locally Grown Art

January 13, 2015

Meet This Artist: The Meticulous, Plant-Loving Jody Cedzidlo

Artist Jody Cedzidlo is the founder of Flytrap, a line of hand-printed botanically-themed dresses, scarves, tees, and accessories that she operates from her backyard studio in Pittsboro. Like many passions,… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: botanical, flytrap, jody cedzidlo, liquidambar, plants, prints

December 9, 2014

Meet This Artist: Behind the Scenes with Elisabeth Lewis Corley

Elisabeth Lewis Corley of Pittsboro has been a writer and actor since age four. She started Atlanta Shakespeare Company while in her early twenties (still operating on Peachtree Street) and performed in the… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: elisabeth lewis corley, joseph megel, piedmont performance factory, Pittsboro, streetsigns, theater

November 18, 2014

Meet This Artist: Kickstarting it with Breadfoot

“Spawn of the East River delta, Breadfoot is as much a game of checkers as a cold beer on the stoop. Inclined to wear Red Wing boots, he likes his… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Breadfoot, Kickstarter, Stephan Meyers

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