“The Carvers have always been part of Campbell, intertwined into the fabric of the school’s identity…and yet, before swift change a few years ago, the dwindling cohort and craft itself were hanging on by a thread.”

“The determination that was driving rebuilding ignited creativity, joy, ingenuity, and a communal spirit. Temporarily, we set aside tourism, big business, and other capitalist drives that have fueled regional growth for decades.”

“Becker documents former sites of the mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining process, an extractive practice that’s as horrendous and literal as it sounds.”

“A type of bamboo native to the United States, rivercane was, historically, one of the most abundant plants in the southeast. However, due to European agricultural practices, modern overdevelopment, and a changing social fabric, its quantity has diminished significantly.”

“‘You are on Cherokee Land’… was considered by some to be ‘unwelcoming’ to non-Native visitors. One of my favorite comments we received is, ‘Isn’t that the whole point? Isn’t that why people come here: because it’s Cherokee land, and it’s not the same as everywhere else?’”

“Hays’s works find her playing with preconceived notions—as she says, introducing avant-garde abstraction to ‘more slant, more slang, more accent, more color, more impulse.’

“I am often not the photographer people want me to be. I came to Appalachia to examine our understanding of culture and place in the gray area between right and wrong.”

“There’s a saying that ‘all roads lead through North Carolina,’ and I truly believe that.”

When the blacksmith behind Heartwood Forge in Jonesborough, Tennessee, severely injured his hand, he thought it was all over. Thanks to an outpouring of community support and months of healing, he’s back at it—with a new perspective on work, community, and what really matters.

Flutter is flirty. David Gilbert’s works, photographic documents of slap-dash sculptures and painterly interventions in often dramatic natural light, are charming and engrossing–but they’re also taunting.

With a career spanning 40 years as a photojournalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers, Charles “Teenie” Harris amassed an unrivaled photographic archive.

[The piece] Sea Breeze Inheritance creates a monument for which there isn’t one, a memorial for the unincorporated section of the North Carolina coast that was, for decades, a sprawling resort and vacation destination for thousands of Black and Indigenous Southerners.

Featuring panels made by craftswomen in the West Bank and cross-stitches made by the artist in Brooklyn, the work reflects an ongoing dialogue about Palestinian customs and ways of life—a conversation that spans generations, languages, and transcontinental locales.

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has an unparalleled contemporary art collection, one that students have been entirely responsible for amassing since the early 1960s.

“As if staging a dress rehearsal without a director, Cannupa Hanska Luger uses a variety of sources to recover the pottery traditions of his Mandan ancestors in North Dakota.”

“Much in the same way Wang builds over Wanda’s garden, ruining her private lifestyle game, developers have transformed personal virtual spaces for the sake of profit, leaving the millennial generation nostalgic for the uglier and more revealing lands of the digital ecosystem."