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In the early days, the River Arts District was home to Cherokees; the estate of Asheville's first millionaire, James McConnell Smith; and the Southern Railroad Depot. It was also known as Asheville's first industrial district; one of the area's most vibrant African American communities, which has since been decimated by urban renewal; and the base of prominent grassroots organizations such as RiverLink, Mountain Housing Opportunities, the West-End Clingman Avenue neighborhood, and the River District Artists. In 1989, Asheville's citizens developed a long-range revitalization plan for the city. As Asheville boomed in the early 1990s, the River Arts District lagged behind. In 1995, fire destroyed the district's most prominent landmark, the Asheville Cotton Mill, prompting a phoenix-like renaissance.
Asheville's River Arts district was once the city's first industrial area but now is home to a vibrant and diverse arts community.
In a world that is growing as quickly as ours, suburban sprawl and harmful new development is a seemingly unstoppable force; a force that's repercussions include not only the decimation of the earth's natural resources, but an increase in homogeneity - both in terms of built form, and social practices. Because a majority of new construction is done through developers, buildings not only look more alike, but they house similar functions for a like group of people. Communities thus become segregated within their cities, and are less interesting and educating because of the lack of variation in human contact, and lack of interaction between the natural and built environment. Asheville, North Carolina is an area that has been undergoing a drastic suburban sprawl for the last several years. Enormous residential developments in once forested areas and on mountainsides have begun to wipe out many of the natural elements that attract people to the area in the first place, and as usual, this development is in the hands of developers who construct large buildings made of cheap, synthetic material, that all look the same, and are then inhabited by a similar type of people. This homogenous development is a problem for the city of Asheville in particularly because it is known for it's eclectic, bohemian, art loving and nature-friendly atmosphere, and yet new development only continues to eradicate all the qualities that make this town as unique as it is. However, some people in Asheville have taken it upon themselves to revamp and reuse old, historical buildings in the area as an alternative to new development, and in effect, have introduced an exciting level of heterogeneity to various parts of the city. One of the best examples of the reuse of historical buildings without homogenous and harmful development is in the River Arts District. Located along the French Broad River, old factories and warehouses that were devastated by natural disaster or fire have been reclaimed by Asheville's large artisan population, and now make up what is known as The River Arts District. Artists live and work in these once industrial buildings, bringing new meaning to an old environment with no or minimal new land development. This idea about the reduction of homogeneous and harmful new development via site rehabilitation is one that I hope to engage in my professional career, and thus led me to this thesis proposal. As my investigations into this thesis progressed, a program evolved, not from any single desire for new development, but from the social and physical qualities of the site, into a community co-op. The program mediates three existing, but contradicting, agendas into a single building whose footprint and construction is as least intrusive as possible, and in fact contributes to the overall well being of the River Arts District. The building does this through a heterogeneous plethora of methods including a mixed-use program, sustainability and site-sensitive design tactics, and the reuses and reconstruction of two old, industrial building shells that would have otherwise been leveled to make way for new development.
Approaching creativity as a form of spiritual practice, artist Benton breaks the creative process down into its most basic components and offers a fresh perspective on developing one's creative skills.
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An invitation to return to a simpler time of earth-based spirituality and ritual living, through writings from a small forest-farm in the Appalachian Highlands. This book looks at the agricultural year as a starting space for a deepening of earth-centered spirituality. It gives a set of backstories to ease the reader into a time between the pre-industrial era and the modern one, into a place where the fast-moving stress of American life can be affected by a better connection not only to the natural world but to the elegant expression of the year as expressed through seasonal festivals and celebrations. The chapters are broken into four seasons, with the quarter days a highlight within each, and feature simple skills that accompany each marker in the year. Author H. Byron Ballard offers advice on spiritual and physical immersion into the seasons that applies to readers from all areas: rural, urban, and suburban. This is also a deeply practical book, including insights into the following: Farming & gardening: composting, manure, soil preparation, pests, seed-saving Food: cooking, preserving, foraging, the summer kitchen, mushrooms and mycelium Fiber arts: knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, decorative cut-work, and embroidery Sewing: treadle machines, electric machines, hand sewing Household crafts: candle-making, soap-making, broom-making, sharpening tools Health: medicines, tending the dying, death and death rituals A glossary is included for any unfamiliar terms.
Messages to the Heart was born from an organic pairing of one couple's passion: Elise's thoughtful, healing pastel paintings paired with Phil's mindful philosophy derived from years of coaching clients to success. Together, they bring a visceral expression of everyday inspiration brought together through art and words. Readers will feel touched, inspired and reminded of their "ah-ha" moments of truth and beauty in their own lives.
2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards winner After Sadie's son, Mark, is gone, she doesn't have much use for other people, including her husband. The last person she wants to see is Tinley Greene, who shows up claiming she's pregnant with Mark's baby. Sadie knows Tinley must be lying because Mark was engaged and never would have betrayed his fiancée. So she refuses to help, and she doesn't breathe a word about it to anybody. But in a small, southern town like Garnet, nothing stays secret for long. Once Sadie starts piecing together what happened to Mark, she discovers she was wrong about Tinley. And when her husband is rushed to the hospital, Sadie must hurry to undo her mistake before he runs out of time to meet their grandchild.