# Elise Wilson

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How LEAF Global Arts Turns Life Into a Year-Round Festival Experience

Just a year ago, fall festivals were disappearing right and left from event calendars in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hurricane Helene may have thrown a wrench in Western North Carolina’s 2024 festival season, but 2025 is back and better than ever. This weekend marks the triumphant return of the LEAF …

Hominy Creek Comfort Makers: Inside the Library-Based Volunteer Group Stitching Kindness Into Action

Are you sitting comfortably? Because this week, we’re taking a closer look at how the Hominy Creek Comfort Makers and their Enka-Candler Library partners are combining craft and community service. Host Elise Wilson cozies up with founder Pat White, along with local library legends Kate Spratt (bran…

This Crafting Collective Says Your 'Bad Art' Is Actually Perfect

What happens when you toss perfectionism out the window and invite adults to play with glue sticks and torn paper? You get ArtFolk, the Weaverville-based collective where “making art is the only qualification to become an artist.” In this episode, ArtsvilleUSA Executive Director Elise Wilson joins …

Fragrance, Confidence & the Art of Becoming with Elise Wilson

Most people choose a perfume. Elise Wilson chooses a version of herself. As a beauty editor and lifelong fragrance lover, Elise has built a scent wardrobe for every part of her life. There's a fragrance for work, a fragrance for date night, a fragrance for the gym, and even fragrances that are no…

RED Metal Rising: Rachel David on Art as Activism in the Public Sphere

If you’ve ever rounded a corner in Asheville and come face-to-face with a monumental ripple of forged steel, chances are you’ve stumbled across the handiwork of Rachel David of RED Metal. In a city teeming with murals and microbreweries, her abstract public sculpture “Fluvial”—a centerpiece of Arts…

Spencer Beals Mobilizes Art in Defense of the UNC Asheville Woods

In Asheville, a battle is playing out over a 45-acre forest bordering UNC Asheville and the Five Points neighborhood, a haven for tricolored bats, box turtles, bobcats, and great horned owls, less than a mile from downtown. The controversy reached a turning point when, as recently reported by Ashev…

THRIVE Appalachia: Turning Craft Heritage Into Career Opportunities for Rural Youth

Yancey County, North Carolina, is home to one of the highest concentrations of artists in the country. In this rural community, traditional skills such as pottery, sewing, and carpentry have been handed down for generations, anchoring a local economy founded on creativity and resourcefulness. Today…

Under Pressure: Jewelry Artist Jeffrey Burroughs Transforms Hardship Into Hope for Asheville’s Arts District

Editor’s note: This episode contains discussion of a near-death experience and suicidal ideation. The views expressed by Jeffrey Burroughs are their own and do not reflect the positions of ArtsvilleUSA or its parent, Arterial Inc. This podcast is intended to highlight the artistic work and communit…

Good for Business Podcast - Episode 60 - Elise Wilson

Good for Business Podcast - Episode 60 - Elise Wilson Colin sat down with Elise Wilson, Executive Director of Development and Alumni at the W, to discuss her background, education, involvement with Mississippi University for Women, and local healthcare and nursing education developments. Host Col…