Rapid River Magazine: How would you describe your work and where do you think it fits within the sphere of contemporary art? Matt Tommey: I describe my work as nature inspired sculpture that uses basketry and a variety of unique surface and assemblage techniques as my language of expression. I’mContinue Reading
Rapid River Magazine: How did you get involved with art? Mary Decker: I have been drawing and painting my entire life. My earliest commissioned art was for classmates in 1st grade who asked me to do their assigned drawings for them. I wonder how many of my drawings graced theContinue Reading
by James Cassara – Born into a music family, growing up surrounded with well known friends of her father — the successful folk singer Terry Gilkyson — Eliza Gilkyson has always sensed what her path in life would be. While her father was performing with The Weavers; scoring top-10 hitsContinue Reading
APRIL by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – This is National Poetry Month! (About time.) Poetry is a genre Latinos have excelled in. Think Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Gabriela Mistral, William Carlos Williams, Carmen Tafolla, Juan Felipe Herrera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Victor Hernandez Cruz. Claribel Alegria, a majorContinue Reading
New School Expressionist Painter Rapid River Magazine: What “school” of art would your work be categorized under? Daniel McClendon: I have a difficult time categorizing my art, as I’m inspired by so much and I’ve never really subscribed to or identified with a specific movement. My techniques and philosophies varyContinue Reading
Rapid River Magazine: When did you first start painting and how did you start you art career? Jacqui Fehl: I have always been creative but have only been painting seriously for the last three years or so. I also work as a voiceover actress and record radio and TV commercialsContinue Reading
When Words Sing by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – When words sing, poetry happens. When words sing, lyricism happens: Lyric poetry (and prose) happens. Friedrich Nietzsche declared that the lyric poet “always says ‘I’ and sings us through the full chromatic scale of passions andContinue Reading
Gratitude by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – I celebrated a BIG birthday in August. My favorite gift was a gratitude journal. Page after page is filled with words I’m grateful to know and use. Here’s a small list: joy cerulean cumulus luminous slide persevere light endureContinue Reading
Executive Producer of the Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival Interviewed by Dennis Ray Rapid River Magazine: So many of the main stream comics have passed through Laugh Your Asheville Off (LYAO) over the years; were there any comics who were not big at the time but you knew wouldContinue Reading
