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Asheville Arts & Crafts – Check out our new artwork [PICS]

This week we just wanted to showcase for you some of the great local arts and crafts that you can discover here at Mountain Made. Did you know that Mountain Made is home to some 150 artists, craft persons and authors? Yes, if you are new to Asheville or the surrounding Western North Carolina hills, Mountain Made is a wonderful

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Father’s Day Gifts from Mountain Made

Father’s Day Gift Ideas Did you know that we owe both Father’s Day and Mother’s Day to two Southern women! According Wikipedia,  Grace Golden Clayton was inspired by Anna Jarvis‘ crusade to establish Mother’s Day. A couple of months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town jut 15 miles away from

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New Art from the Artists at Mountain Made

Mountain Made has some great artists as you might already know. Our local artisans can take something that appears old and worn-out and up-cycle it into something fun yet functional. Or create art that puts a new “tilt” on something that is seemly ordinary and ho-hum. Which is why we are proud to showcase the whimsical artwork to two very

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Nan Davis – Contemporary Fine Art Paintings

Asheville Fine Art Painter Nan Davis  “Taking a Chocolate Break During Her Demonstration” Nan Davis is Mountain Made’s Featured Artist for August/September.  We were finally able to get her into the gallery last weekend for some of her trademark “speed painting” techniques. Nan says this about her artwork, “I start my paintings by creating chaos – marks and smears that

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The Jaw-Dropping Laser-Cut Wood Art of Ron Adolph

“Laser cut wood relief sculptures” Asheville-based artist Ron Adolph produces wonderfully intricate wood relief sculptures. Ron creates his elaborately layered wood relief sculptures with the help of a laser cutter. The pieces are cut from FSC Certified Baltic Birch plywood which he then layers to create varying images of animals, and mandala-like patterns. …. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio,

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