Friends - please visit, either virtually or in person, these fabulous folks who are all artists in one form or another:

Pottery/Ceramics:
Empty Bowls - ceramic artists helping fight hunger
Hinckley Pottery - gallery home for works by Jill Hinckley, and ongoing classes in clay in Washington DC
Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts - classes, workshops, community & private studio rentals in Asheville
heather tinnaro ceramics - Asheville potter Heather Tinnaro's website
Melting Mountain Pottery - website for Asheville potter Joey Sheehan
ClaySpace Co-op - cooperative clay studio and gallery located in the historic River Arts District in Asheville
Smoking Turtle Studio - Raku and horsehair pottery artist Les Powell
Artist Wrangler - Support services for artists, Dawn Dalto owner
Vasefinder - Classical American Studio Ceramics

Music:
Gwen Hughes - the 'love child of Peggy Lee & Muddy Waters'
Laura Powers - art/music

Photography:
Anne Ledbetter - unique portrait photography; barkphotography.com/not yer usual pet photography
Doug Green - location photographer specializing in weddings

Chocolate (yes, it warrants it's own category):
French Broad Chocolates - artisan chocolates made with love in Asheville, and now available in person at the newly opened French Broad Chocolate Lounge in downtown Asheville!!!

Design:
Bruce Starr - City Finish - specialty carpentry and surface finishing
MG Palermo - M. Gina Palermo, artist & designer
Sustainable Websites - sustainable, green web hosting

Performance:
LinDel Sandlin - actor, singer, voiceover artist, comedienne, poet

Asheville FunStuff:
River District Artists - Artists, studios and events in Asheville's River Arts District
AshevilleNow.com - Your home for everything Asheville!
Asheville Purple Pages - eclectic resource for all sorts of things