Appalachian Cooking with Barbara Swell

Meet American Pioneer Cooking Expert & Folklorist Barbara Swell According to Blue Ridge Hertiage (https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/barbara-swell/), “Barbara Swell credits her grandmother, a West Virginia native, with inspiring her lifelong interest in Appalachian cooking and homemaking traditions.” “She writes that her grandmother taught her how to bake, garden, and can, and “that rum doesn’t count as alcohol […]

Shop Small (and Local) at Mountain Made

Did you know that 67 percent of all the new jobs in the US are created by small and/or local companies? We all know it is SO easy to order your holiday gifts online nowadays. Sure a couple of clicks and you are done, right? But as you can see that dropping by and shopping […]

Cherokee Leaf Pounding – Art Quilts by Asheville Artist Bonnie Lucas

Live Art Demo – Saturday 8/17/2019 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Quilts made from Pounding Leaves & Flowers? Among our Mountain Made artists, Bonnie Lucas is one of our better known master quilters. In 2014, Bonnie was selected as a semifinalist among 405 other contestants in the American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek. The American Quilter’s Society’s quilter’s […]

What is an Art Walk?

“What is the Downtown Asheville Art Walk All About?” First, What is an Art Walk? Just about any size city, town or hamlet, nowadays has an art walk of some kind. And the Asheville Downtown Art Walk is no different. An Art Walk is basically a self-guided and self-paced tour of small studios, galleries or organizations that […]