Work of the Week

In 1946 when designer Florence Schust married furniture manufacturer Hans Knoll, they formed Knoll Associates Inc. in new York City. By 1974 the company established

Does the surface of this pottery remind you of anything? Perhaps a snowflake? Or a cluster of leaves? Crystalline glazes, used on this vase from

In 1974 artist Harvey K. Littleton (Corning, NY 1922–2013 Spruce Pine, NC) developed a process for using glass to create prints on paper. Littleton, who

The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany as a state-funded art school that embraced the Industrial Revolution and taught craftspeople how to design

Jeff Edwards, originally from Vian, OK, has served the Cherokee Nation for over 11 years. As a member of the tribe, his main artistic focus

Jo Sandman’s artwork Continuities, made between 1992 and 1994, may seem simplistic at first, but there is more to enjoy the more you think about

The Asheville Art Museum was fortunate to receive a large gift from Maureen Littleton, the daughter of Harvey K. Littleton, late in 2020. The gift

The craft community of Western North Carolina lost an important member last month. Billie Ruth Sudduth (Sewanee, TN 1945–2021 New Bern, NC) passed away on

Imagine catching a 4:35pm train from Penn Station in New York City and arriving in Black Mountain, North Carolina at 8:35am the next morning, just

Ruth Asawa (Norwalk, CA 1926–2013 San Francisco, CA) enrolled at Black Mountain College in summer 1946. In Josef Albers’s design class, students used materials such