Local Hearted: Asheville Artists | WNC Artists | Art Business

Host Meredith Adler talks with Dawn Chitwood (Marketing Director of Bravado Creative in Asheville, NC) about using Facebook as a tool for marketing your art, about branding your business, and about services Bravado Creative offers Western North Carolina businesses to improve and manage their digital presence.

Asheville area artist and healer Anne Heck shares how she used the creation of dolls to heal from being violently beaten and raped at age 26. Anne could have kept this very sensitive part of her history private. Instead, she has chosen to be very open about the event, the aftermath, and the healing, in order to help bring the healing to others.

Barnardsville, NC Artist Leo Monahan talks about how a series of happy accidents and opportunities he accepted, brought him to where he is today. In this interview with host Meredith Adler, Leo, "known as "the grandfather of paper sculpture," talks about his 50 years as a commercial illustrator in Los Angeles, where his company designed 1200 record album covers in a period of 5 years, and NBC was his largest client. Leo taught color and design at Disney, and is now a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Celo artist Kat Turczyn speaks with Meredith Adler about Kat's absolute joy in creating oil paintings.  Kat began painting seriously in 2006, after an almost 40 year career as a statistician.  Working only with images of people when she first began painting, you will hear Kat talk about how her 2009 move to this area (Celo in Yancey County) inspired her to include landscapes as some of her subject matter.

Listen and be inspired as Kat talks so candidly about her love for creating her paintings!

To connect with Kat and see more of her art:

SCROLL down the page!

Visit her website http://kathleenturczyn.com

Visit Toe River Arts Council Burnsville Gallery

Visit Toe River Arts Council Spruce Pine Gallery

Follow her on Facebook (the link is her personal profile page, but Kat says following her profile is the best way to see her most recent art, in her public posts)

Highlights from this episode include:

How Kat went from being a beginner painter to being in galleries and selling almost everything she paints in just a few short years

How Kat "infused" her favorite painting with joy (it's the one at the top of this post!)

Kat's search for her style and how she become comfortable with having multiple painting styles

Why Kat sells her favorite paintings

Being an artist "in a small pond"

Local Resources Mentioned during this Episode:

Penland School of Art

Toe River Arts Council

One of a Kind Gallery  (OOAK) in Micaville, NC

The Design Gallery (a beautiful gallery in Bursnville, NC that sadly has closed)

Other Artists mentioned during this episode:

Sandra Gates, Burnsville, NC artist

More of Kat Turczyn's paintings:

This is the painting Kat discusses during the interview when asked if she had a favorite landscape in her studio:

This is the painting "Kitties on the Edge"  Meredith mentioned during the interview:

 

 

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Thank you for joining me for the very first episode of the Local Hearted Podcast. I am your host, Meredith Adler, and in this episode, I introduce myself and talk about how the podcast came about.

You will learn why I decided to do a show interviewing not only Asheville and Western North Carolina artists, but also people in local businesses who create opportunities for our local artists and provide services to help us with the business end of things.

By listening to the Local Hearted Podcast, you will get to know local artists and discover new favorites!