“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."

“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.’

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

“Stacy Kranitz’s visceral photographs of Appalachia bring the ethical quandaries of documentary photography into stark relief.”

“The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South pulls from more than five decades of oral histories to highlight some of the strong-willed and inspirational women who call Appalachia home.”