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Arts & Culture

Made in NC: Blue Mountain Bowls

At Blue Mountain Bowls, the Overall Winner of Our State’s 2017 Made in NC Awards, local trees are given a new life as one-of-a-kind art pieces.

by K McKay
Family Roots Run Deep at Vanguard Furniture in Hickory
Features

Family Roots Run Deep at Vanguard Furniture in Hickory

The new guard at Vanguard Furniture looks a lot like the old guard: In Hickory, a second generation of craftspeople fashion every piece by hand, just the way they were taught.

by Eleanor Spicer Rice
Meet the Maker: Waldroup Woodworks
Arts

Made in NC: Waldroup Woodworks

Learn where Joe Waldroup gathers inspiration for his whimsical wood carvings, which won first place in the Craft category of Our State’s inaugural Made in NC Awards.

by Rosalie Catanoso
stuart kent woodwork
Home & Garden

Working Against the Grain to Give Water Oak New Life

An eastern North Carolina woodworker finds opportunity in a place not known for the craft, with a wood that’s notoriously challenging.

by Jeremy Markovich
bob trotman studio tour
Arts

Studio Tour with Wood Sculptor Bob Trotman

Far from the corridors and offices of the figures he portrays, a sculptor comments on the dangers of the dollar.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
wood word patrick dougherty
Uncategorized

Whimsical Wood Work by Patrick Dougherty

Meet the man behind whimsical landscape sculptures, created entirely with branches and twigs.

by Susan Stafford Kelly

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