“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“‘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.”

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.

“Flutter is flirty. David Gilbert’s works…are charming and engrossing–but they’re also taunting. A testament to fleeting gestures, facetious sensibilities, and queer ingenuity, Gilbert’s poetic works saunter and serve together in Flutter, the artist’s first institutional show and widest presentation of his oeuvre to date.”

“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."