Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Essentially self taught as a painter, Frederick “Craig” Franz has been creating art for the last 17 years. Studying art in college led to a brief career as a jeweler/craftsman and then onto his forty year career as a dental technician fabricating and sculpting porcelain crowns and bridgework.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Tunde has emerged among the ranks of contemporary African artists embracing figurative expressionism. Exploring color as the basis of painting, Tunde infuses spiritualism and symbolism in his powerful lyrical expressions.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
The High Country Modern Quilt Guild was formed in 2016 for local artists who specialize in quilts with a modern twist. This week, twenty Guild members will offer creations to include wall hangings, quilted paintings, thread paintings, decorative stitched fabric bowls, placemats and table runners, baskets, rope bowls, hand bags, tote bags and one of a kind wearables.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Morgan’s work is inspired by Victorian American women. Because women have historically been compared to delicate flowers, Morgan reinterprets that symbolism by allowing porcelain wildflower imagery to represent a woman’s inner strength.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Bold color and thoughtful emotion are common threads in Samuel and Ashley’s collaborative paintings. Using colors and themes of the four distinct seasons, they hope to impart a sense of safety and solace with works inspired by old world simplicity.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
A self-taught artist and art teacher, David was born in Sebring, Ohio. Having contracted polio as a young child, he passed time drawing, coloring, constructing and painting with watercolor.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
As an architecture student at North Carolina State University’s School of Design, Wendy focused on painting, pottery, photography, life drawing and graphics.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Evenlight’s work is handcrafted in the spirit of connecting to and caring for the earth. She often uses leathers with positive social and environmental attributes, including repurposed and low chemical leathers, as well as free-range leathers from animals that were legally hunted and used for their meat.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
North Carolina artist Waitsel Smith is a visual artist living in Lenoir with over 30 years experience painting the people and places of North Carolina.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Todd Wright and Nathan Hefner will perform on the porch of Edgewood Cottage (Weather Permitting) on July 22 from 1-3 pm. Artists Cindy McEnery and Karin Neuvirth will be showing in the cottage. Remember to bring lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy!
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Karin recalls that, as a child, color could drastically affect her emotional state, and today color is, by far, the most dominant element in her compositions.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Susan’s distinctive fiber works combine landscape painting with quilt construction to create functional modern quilts as well as decorative art quilts and wall hangings.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Theresa Gloster is a storyteller who conveys her stories through paint and other media stories about childhood and memories sparked by things that happen in the world today.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
As an outdoor enthusiast, Veronica has been privileged to follow adventure to many breathtaking scenes of inspiration. She’s found joy in documenting wild scenes along the way, from her former home in the mountains of Utah to her travels throughout the western US to her current home in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Randi always appreciated art but it wasn’t until she retired that she began to pursue her own art journey. Randi’s love of horticulture and botany has informed her still life paintings and in oil painting
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
As chief photographer at Lees-McRae College followed by program photographer for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Scott’s art journey began with photography.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Lauren Waterworth grew up in Watauga County and has lived in western North Carolina most of her life. She minored in Studio Art at Appalachian State before earning a Master’s Degree in Geology from Texas A&M University.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Function, beauty, feeling and fun drive Lucas’s work. His hope is that the energy he invests in every piece flows to the users and enriches their lives. Whether his creations are functional or decorative, the wood he uses is sourced responsibly from local woodlands.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Cathy Futral is an artist who favors watercolor and acrylic mediums, often plein air or working from photographs of her extensive travel in the U.S. and abroad.
Edgewood Cottage
115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC
Free art shows in Blowing Rock! Meet different high country artists each week and buy original art directly. Daily through Labor Day, new artists each Monday. This week: Skip Sickler, photographer