Telling Stories and Capturing Moods: Todd Saal’s Watercolor Journey

By Meghan E. Gattignolo  Few things are more dream-inducing than diluted pastel pigments on creamy white paper. The colors drip into each other like raindrops pulling down the color from…

Top 3 Reasons to Go See Tennessee Craft: A Statewide Member Exhibition 

By Meghan E. Gattignolo   For many people, art means a canvas covered in paint or a carved statue. Artistic expression can be found over many different kinds of media, however. For…

Saved by Slaves from the Flames of War 

By Meghan E. Gattignolo  In 1857, a local man named Thomas Yateman Dixon bought his soon-to-be wife Mary Elizabeth Raimey a new piano.   He didn’t buy her just any piano,…