DeWayne Barton founded Hood Huggers to tell the stories of Asheville’s black community, which has been and continues to be displaced.
Elizabeth Watkin
Elizabeth Watkin is based in Asheville, NC. She dabbles in writing, art-making, and local activism. She is also a contributing writer for local art publication Holler.
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A Secret Heritage: Modern Art in Zambia
While the world is looking in another direction art flourishes in the African country of Zambia on a shoestring. The desire of Zambian artists to create is so strong that they will use anything. From burlap sacks to car paint, even old bed sheets are often used in the place of canvases as the materials for art. Garbage and detritus are turned in works of art that are often staggering in their scope. The tradition of fine art, in the Western concept of the term, in Zambia goes back to colonial times and has been steadily growing ever since.
