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Unit 1
Jenna Jaffe is a musician, visual artist, music educator, composer, performance artist, gender/transgender vocal/life coach, Reiki III practitioner, and an ESL instructor. She is committed to healing Mother Earth and all its inhabitants and the dismantling of all inequalities, through creative disciplines. Her other passions include phonetic and drama coaching, peer counseling (NCCPSS), and applying spiritual therapies in her trades. In addition to serving others, Jenna is dedicated to creating art in several disciplines including mixed media, photography, jewelry, dance, and more. You can see and hear her performing in the Asheville area. Visit Jenna at her art studio upon appointment or during normal business hours.
Unit 9
Amar grew up about 90 minutes north of London in a small town called Leamington Spa. Early on, he began to gain interest in drawing and would recreate comic book covers in his sketchbook. Over time, the sketchbook doodles morphed into a desire to paint anything and everything around him. At this point, he still didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he knew that he wanted to create. And as a quiet, often shy kid, Amar quickly learned that his creative interests were a great way to express himself and pay homage to his inspirations.
He started to get serious about painting in his early twenties. For several years, he experimented with different mediums ranging from watercolors, pencils, chalk, acrylic, and aerosol. Eventually, he experimented with oil and instantly loved how the more traditional style of paint worked for him. And with his first big collection, The Masters, featuring famous Hip-Hop artists dressed as 17th-century aristocrats, the traditional aesthetic of oil paint was the perfect match. In 2014, Amar made the move across the Atlantic to New York, the birthplace of Hip-Hop to continue his career in a setting that lives and breathes the inspiration for his works.
Unit 5
Cheryl Eugenia Barnes is a self-taught artist who has been painting since a young child. Her inspiration for painting is to see a reality that doesn't exist in the real world. Cheryl’s preferred medium is oils.
Unit 12
BCA is a full service architectural firm in Asheville, North Carolina, specializing in modern innovative designs.
Unit 13
Friend of Furniture is a husband and wife team living out their dream of making sad furniture, happy. They refinish, restore, revamp, rescue, renovate and recycle quality furniture pieces that have endured years of use, but still have lots of life left with just a little furniture artistry TLC. Mitch is a master of mixing and matching stain and can restore an antique to its original beauty. He can also hand weave a caned chair. Debbie is the artist, painter, and design specialist. Together they make sad furniture, and each other, very happy. Visitors are always welcome!
Unit 14
Asheville Makers is a makerspace in the Asheville area, consisting of a friendly community of tinkerers, makers, engineers, educators, scientists, artists, hackers, geeks, etc. Anyone who is, aspires to be, or just wants to hang around with local smart, creative, friendly mad scientist folk is welcome!
Asheville Makers hosts a regular open house on the first and third Tuesday of every month @ 7pm. If you are interested in getting involved, or just want to nerd out with like minded folk, this is a great time to come on out! Feel free to bring any projects of your own to show off or get help with.
Units 10 & 15
The Bright Angle is a porcelain design studio located on the South Slope of Asheville NC, with the mission of creating intentionally-designed and well-crafted products to add meaning to life and combat disposable culture.
The Bright Angle uses a completely modular process, which allows for clients to collaborate with them on their own unique fixtures. Their aesthetic is elegant and modern and an innovative response to a command of material and process. The Bright Angle is revolutionizing lighting by bridging cutting edge technology with the purest ceramic materials.
https://thebrightangle.com
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Units 16 & 19
The Asheville Darkroom is a 501c3 non-profit organization offering film processing, education, programming, and facilities available for public use.
Anyone with darkroom experience can become a member and use the facilities for $50/month, plus a $25 orientation fee, which includes chemicals.
Those new to the darkroom can take classes, workshops, and attend demos to learn how to use the space. The Asheville Darkroom also offers free critiques on the last Wednesday of each month for both analog and digital work.
Unit 17
Quinton Overbay is a traditional and digital 3D artist, and founder of Forest Keys Studio. As a freelance 3d modeler, he has worked with a variety of high profile clients, such as Universal and IBM, on projects ranging from Character work to designing and modeling theme park attractions.
At Forest Keys Studio he produces handmade artisan keycaps for custom mechanical keyboards. He also actively participates in the custom keyboard community. He has a never ending appetite for new projects, so don't hesitate to reach out with any ideas!
For commission inquiries both artisan keycap and 3d modeling, please reach out to: forestkeys.studio@gmail.com
Unit 21
John Federlin is an American Abstract Expressionist painter born and raised in New York where he was heavily impacted by the spirit of NYC.
He spent his childhood growing up in Jazz clubs and Art Galleries throughout Manhattan. His monthly sit-ins at his Grandfather’s jam sessions gave him a front row seat to what creativity and being an artist truly meant.
He also spent time with his Great Uncle, Charles Augustus Smith. Smith played a significant role in the emergence of Modern Art in America post WWII, having work on display at the Whitney alongside Willem deKooning, Georgia O’keefe and Jackson Pollock.
These two men coupled with the magnetic persona of NYC would later shape him into the artist he is today. John’s work calls to the life and vibrancy he saw on the city streets. Using Color and Movement to express and build visually dynamic pieces.
John’s work has been displayed nationally from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles. Most notably in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of The Employee Art Show. He was recently awarded Honorable mention for best in show at J Mane Galleries “Abstract 2020” show.
John received a Bachelor’s in Studio Art along with a Minor in Art History from College of Saint Rose.
Unit 22
Swann Creative Design manufactures custom name drop laser cut souvenirs for businesses, state and national parks and nonprofits.
Ricardo Tejeda is an experienced graphic designer, photographer, printer, and writer based in Asheville, NC. With almost two decades under his belt in various creative industries, he started his company, Show And Tale Creative, in 2021. While his design work finds its identity in type-focused minimalism and leans into political and social commentary, Ricardo's photography allows him to explore his passion for the outdoors through landscape photography and genuine human connections through his portrait work. He combines this wealth of knowledge into blog writing for his website.
Luis Alvaro Sahagun Nuño (he|him|his) was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Sahagun creates drawings, paintings, sculptures, and performances that confront the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. Luis grew up undocumented and disconnected, and his practice is in part a response to this. As the grandson of a Curandera, and himself a practitioner of Curanderismo, when Luis makes art, he conjures indigenous spiritualities to embody the aesthetics of personal histories, cultural resistance, and colonial disruption.
Luis has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (Roswell, NM), Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles), Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), Latchkey Gallery NYC, Arvika Art Gallery (Sweden), The National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago), EXPO Chicago, and the Chicago Cultural Center, among others. His work has been examined in publications including Artillery Magazine, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Newcity, New American Paintings, and the Chicago Tribune. His practice has been spotlighted as having a unique voice helping to shape, shift, and touch the world on radio, podcasts, and television networks such as MundoFOX, NBC, UNIVISION and WBEZ-NPR. Sahagun has held residencies at Roswell, NM; Oaxaca, Mexico; the Chicago Artist Coalition; Mana Contemporary in Miami; and was an Artist in Residence for Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. His work is included in the Fidelity Collection of Boston, Alta Med Collection of Los Angeles, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, among many others. Sahagun received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and his MFA from Northern Illinois University. He is a 3Arts awardee and a 2023 United States Artist Fellow.
Susan Rosendale Martin is an assemblage / mixed media artist whose work concentrates on shrines and reliquaries.
