You don’t have to live in California to know that America’s love affair with wine has blossomed into a serious relationship. We drank 805 million gallons of it in 2018, according to the Wine Institute of America, more than we’ve consumed in any year since...
In an era of same-day package deliveries and instantaneous texting, taking it slow seems counterintuitive. However, the region hugging California’s Central Coast delivers a sublime “relax-cation” where everyone agrees that going SLO (as in the initials of San Luis Obispo County) is vital for well-being....
Waterfowl migrating along the Americas find respite annually in the extensive wetlands and open waters of the Klamath Basin, a wildlife oasis that stretches from Southern Oregon to Northern California. Known as the Pacific Flyway, the migration route boasts more than a million birds a...
How does a former nutritionist become one of Vail, Colorado’s top interior designers? For Amy Casey, a principal at Casey St. John Interiors, her circuitous path began in her hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. “I was always interested in making beautiful spaces while I was growing...
Alaska, nearly two and a half times the size of Texas, remains a land of seemingly endless open space. It’s also a destination of misconceptions by those unfamiliar with what’s known as “The Last Frontier.” Most notably, the icy igloo, thought to have been built...
Visitors to solo art exhibitions by James F. Jackson have been so enthralled by the varied styles on display that they’ve asked questions like, “Who are the seven artists in this show?” Possibly even more confounding, some of the paintings may include intricately carved leather,...
Often in a beautifully designed hotel, we find ourselves gazing around and wishing we could replicate the experience at home. It’s rare to find an AIA award-winning architect who marries residential design with interior design, but at Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. the team has experience...
In this issue of WA&A, painter Quang Ho explains creativity in a way that sticks with you. He begins his artistic process with careful observation and a desire to convey an experience, “but when the paint hits the canvas, it becomes a whole different visual...
Regard one of Nancy Bush’s large-scale landscapes, and you might well be tempted to describe it more as a dreamscape, so mysterious and evocative are all her works. “I love atmospheric conditions,” says the artist, explaining the prevalence in her oil paintings of clouds, mist,...
Plein air painter Kathie Odom may be a born-and-bred Tennessean, still living near Knoxville, but some of her recent successes suggest she’s feeling more and more at home in the West. In October 2019, Odom participated for the second year in the Laguna Plein Air Painting...