Volume 30 : AVL Design Weekend
Presenters
Alyssa Phillips
Alyssa is the owner of Amp'd Designs, helping passionate small businesses and entrepreneurs stand out through branding, web design, and graphic design. Alyssa found her path to design through music, and her love of branding while studying at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where she received a BFA in Communications Design. Since moving to the mountains, her favorite part of running a business is building relationships with in the community. Alyssa is also the Vice President of AIGA Asheville.
Anya Khalo
I was born and raised in a former Soviet Union state, which is now the Republic of Belarus. I got my Undergrad and Graduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. I spent fantastic year in Paris at Ecole D’Architecture de Paris La Vilette. Travel remains a love and inspiration. Now i settled in the mountains and help families design their own homes. I am self-reliant; passion driven; a goal achiever and young creator who loves to work with people and contribute to all that is beautiful
Casey Engel
Casey Engel is an interdisciplinary artist primarily working in textiles, printmaking, and ceramics. Her work is centered around her insatiable curiosity with people, the objects we use, our daily routines and the homes we live in. Casey has exhibited throughout Western North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Washington and Chicago, IL and is the Exhibitions Coordinator and Gallery Framer at Blue Spiral 1.
Eric Pieper
For the past 7 years, Eric has run Homestead Studio out of West Asheville, and has enjoyed seeing how the results of an honest day’s work have had a helping hand in shaping the city of Asheville as it grows around him. He views design and branding as a responsibility to the surrounding community at large, and as such, he always strives to create unique, thoughtful, and well-intentioned brands for the good people of our city (and beyond). His work usually shows that he's also a history nerd.
Martha Skinner
International multi-media artist. With a Masters in Architecture & Urban Culture.
Through visualizations of the cycles of life to address temporal, social & environmental issues of our delicate ecology, she filters, transmits, capture & celebrate the intangible qualities of the passing of time with playful representations of the relationships between humans & the environment in which they are situated.
Recognized by various awards & internationally recognized publications & exhibitions.
Melvin AC Howell
Tommy Simpson is an “imaginist” who has worked in nearly every creative medium, from woodworking to painting, printmaking, clay, woodcarving, bookmaking, jewelry, and prose. His work is featured in museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Art & Design, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Simpson says, “the ultimate goal is to bring artwork to life, so that the viewer can identify the human spirit behind the work, and experience its poetry.”
