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Robert Grand

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North Carolina
As seen in: BURNAWAY, Flipboard, Art in America, ARTnews, Garden & Gun, The Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, The Creative Independent, The Cherokee Scout
Covers:  Contemporary Art, Appalachian Culture, American South, Photography, Craft Education
writer, art critic, photographer, big hearted betty • carolinas editor-at-large @BurnawayGA • he/him

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Robert Grand’s Journalist Portfolio

How Artists Are Rebuilding Asheville After Hurricane Helene

How Artists Are Rebuilding Asheville After Hurricane Helene

Artists like Melissa Weiss, Hannah Cole, and Josh Copus took on creative approaches to rebuilding Asheville's…

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After a Tragic Accident, Blacksmith Will Manning Forges Ahead

After a Tragic Accident, Blacksmith Will Manning Forges Ahead

When the blacksmith behind Heartwood Forge in Jonesborough, Tennessee, severely injured his hand, he thought …

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Wake Forest Uni's Collection of Student-Acquired Art

Wake Forest Uni's Collection of Student-Acquired Art

In our first Knock Knock theme feature, Robert Alan Grand highlights the students driving the acquisitions be…

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What Is a Folk School?

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By Robert Grand
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Circle of Community Room chairs, crafted by community members and donated to the John C. Campbell Folk School during the 1920s. Courtesy of John C. Campbell Folk School. The Original Danish Model “One has to face the fact that there is something a little elusive about the Folkehøjskole,” Olive Dame Campbell wrote in the introduction to her 1927 book on the topic—still the most definitive volume of its kind.
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A South Carolina Exhibition Holds What’s Missing—And What Isn’t

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By Robert Grand
Juxtaposing a range of historic and contemporary works, including Edgefield pottery, Gee’s Bend quilts, and Lowcountry ironwork, Middle of Somewhere: The Art and Legacy of Black Southern Makers—on view at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, through February 14, 2027—highlights the many underacknowledged craftspeople who have been significant to the development of American craft culture.
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Utility Objects Shifts into High Gear

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By Robert Grand
Aleisha Duchateau was still settling into full-time pottery work—a pivot prompted by the pandemic—when West Elm came calling about stocking her custom planters and ikebana vases as part of their local makers collaboration collection. “I had no idea how to operate in that capacity, especially from my apartment; my pottery wheel was just on my patio,” the Atlanta-based ceramist says with a laugh.
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