Asheville is widely touted as an artist mecca in North Carolina, but the recent and unexpected flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has affected countless artists. Ashley Callahan reaches out to the people there to get the full picture, and the urgent need of residents.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell finds Yves Saint Laurent arriving at her doorstep, with an inaugural exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art. With a focus on the designer’s sketches, along with other archival materials, a window is opened on Saint Laurent’s creative process.

David Updike follows the next generation of a family of master metalsmiths, as he relates the love for anticlastic raising that Timo Krapf has developed in his jewelry. Returning to school at the Savannah College of Art & Design for his MFA, Krapf wishes to continue growing as an artist.

Having been an artist “since she was in utero”, Scott’s work has been an incredible tapestry, using beads as the medium for expressing the African-American voice.

Ashley Callahan gives one of the father’s of contemporary art jewelry his due, celebrating fifty years of Bob Ebendorf’s work from the generous Porter • Price Collection, donated recently to the Mint Museum.

We revisit the mesmerizing jewelry of Mary Lee Hu by the late Carolyn L.E. Benesh. Carolyn had a personal appreciation of Hu’s meticulous work, and in this article, she offers a paean to beauty, accomplished and mighty, through Hu’s own journey of teaching and innovating.

Robert K. Liu takes us back through fifty years of Ornament Magazine and the Bead Journal, showing through photographs the magnificent journey that he and the late Coeditor Carolyn L.E. Benesh have undertaken, and the incredible people they have met along the way.

Having received the Visionary Award in Metal at the 2023 Smithsonian Craft Show, we explore the jewelry of Chunghi Choo.