Help Allie & Gillan Rebuild

Gillan and Allie are two talented potters who, in addition to dating for over ten years, have built their home and their livelihoods in Asheville North Carolina. Like many other artists who made Asheville into a haven for art and food (and Gil and Allie their friends), the recent floods that struck Asheville and the surrounding Appalachia completely destroyed the studio space that they shared, pulverizing the tools and the space that they use to build a life with art. They lost their throwing wheels, the the clay they spun into pots, the tools accumulated over a combined twenty years of making art, as well as a great trove of finished works that they had spent countless hours creating. They lost these objects, yes, but the most destructive thing taken from them was their ability to make art. These two people are artists, people who give every ounce of themselves to the pursuit of making beautiful things so that they might remind others that life can be hard and mean but that if one knows where and how to look, there is beauty and joy to be had. Without the tools and the space to make their art, Gillan and Allie aren't able to exist, at least not in the way that they have designed for themselves. This page, then, is an opportunity for the rest of us to prop them up when they need it most.