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In the Studio with Harley Burns

Asheville-based artist Harley Burns discusses their transition from a career in public health to a full-time painting practice centered on trans and gender-nonconforming identity in the American South. The interview focuses on Burns's triptych "Buttoning Back Up" (2025), which translates a vulnerable public performance of chest-binding into a series of oil paintings that explore the hypervisibility and invisibility of non-binary bodies.

In the Studio with Garnet Goldman

Artist Garnet Goldman discusses her intricate, hand-cut paper works in an interview, detailing her shift from painting to paper cutting after a creative hiatus. She describes her intuitive process, where pieces begin with a single shape and evolve into complex compositions of flora, hair, and symbolic figures that blend folk tradition and personal mythology.