John Payne’s vision continues to inspire an entire generation of artists and visitors alike. John was always the first to help artists by giving them space to live and work and creating a community to flourish. River Arts District Asheville NC.
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The WELDER: Inspired to “normalize” women in the workplace: Meet welder and artist Melissa Gillespie Davis
Over the last few years we’ve been featuring young, blue-collar workers in our Still Building America blog series at thefabricator.com. Once in a while a story leaps out at me, and this is one of those. My wife Darla shared Melissa Gillespie Davis’ industrial paintings with me, and they stopped me cold. Themes of tradeswomen, … Read More
Taking It To a Higher Level
Earlier this year I shared a post about the necessity for artists and tradespeople to step out of their comfort zone to grow their skills. One of the examples I gave was of a sculpture that marked a departure from my past pieces, my take on an iconic Detroit landmark.” (Continue Reading)
TheFabricator.com: Keeping it real—be wary of mixing business and friendship
Talent attracts attention and offers of representation. This can be a heady experience, but what may appear to be a cordial, mutually beneficial, promising relationship between artist and agent can be anything but. What follows is Josh Welton’s account of one partnership that was not at all what it seemed. However, it was a lesson … Read More
TheFabricator.com: Metal fabricating skills in the hands of artist, James Owens
Give an artist the ability to shape, weld, and paint metal, and you’ve given him a new art form to explore. Check out the images accompanying this post from Josh Welton to see how artist James Owens uses the skills he acquired restoring a 1952 Hudson to create his art. (Continue Reading)
Dodge Garage: Wide Open West in a Dodge Challenger SRT® Widebody – Part 2
Now on to Vegas, baby, the halfway point of our 5,000-mile trek in the widebody Dodge Challenger SRT®Hellcat. We were there for the SEMA Show, one of the largest trade shows in the world. It’s a gearhead paradise, as anything with a motor and wheels (from drift cars to rock crawlers and literally everything in between) is … Read More