Dyeing with natural ingredients is a stinky beautiful thing

Narrowly missing the rain, students, faculty and visitors gathered together to learn how to naturally dye fabrics at the Mountain Heritage Center outside of Hunter Library on April 21. Erin Tapley, from Western Carolina University’s School of Art and Design, ran the event, and taught each person how to dye their very own piece of […]

A peak into the mind of a Chicago artist

Chicago based painter and teacher Molly Zuckerman-Hartung visited WCU on March 29 to talk about her art, with work showcased and created from Chicago, New York, Miami to California. Her work reflects nothing but experimental, engaging and abstract. Around 40 students attended the lecture organized by Professor Ron Laboray from the School of Art and Design, to […]

WCU welcomes the unique and unforgettable

The story was created with Kayla Brookshire.   The halls of Bardo Arts Center were filled with gasps of awe and the laughter of children and their parents alike as a group called Galumpha put on a one of a kind physical performance at Western Carolina University on Friday, Feb. 5. This family friendly show was […]

Jackson County Green Energy Park hosts artist open house

    The Jackson County Green Energy Park (JCGEP) was excited to host their first open house and artist competition on Saturday, April 11. JCGEP has been in existence since 2006, and prides itself on being the first and only art studio powered only by methane gas. The park extracts methane gases from the landfill located on […]

‘Ready, Set, Blow’ with Jackson County Green Energy Park

Jackson County Green Energy Park (JCGEP) will host an artist open house competition from 2 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 11. “The artist open house competition is an incentive to get the artists out to the JCGEP and experience our brand of studios,” said Timm Muth, director of JCGEP. JCGEP is searching for artists […]

Mountains inspiration for artistic soul

Around this time last year, Abigail Taylor was celebrating graduating from Western Carolina University with Motion Picture degree and a ton of memories. She returned to her hometown of Hickory and realized that something had changed since she left for college for the first time. What had once been a boring town to her had […]