CONTRIBUTORS
JULIE WILLIAMS DIXON / P H O T O G R A P H E R , WRITER
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Dixon says the part of her brain and psyche that is drawn to the visual aspects of a story is sometimes at odds with the part that needs to focus on the words. In this month’s Through the Lens, WALTER readers get a glimpse of both her writing and photography. “I stumbled upon Big O’s River Retreat while working on an educational film about the Roanoke River in 2013. It’s part cook shack, part hunting club. I was incredibly moved by the camaraderie I witnessed among the men. In addition to hunting and fishing together for many decades, they also cook dinner for each other twice a month. I’m grateful they were willing to let me behind the scenes at one of their springtime fish frys.”
MARCH2017
IPPY PATTERSON / W R I T E R , I L L U S T R AT O R Patterson illustrated Tony Avent’s Just One Plant column in WALTER for several years, illustrated The New York Times garden column long ago, made tens of thousands of tiny ink and large charcoal marks in between, and is becoming increasingly attracted to abstraction. In the meantime, she’s still trying to get started writing the words to her own book, Boogeyman Memoirs. Her unforeseen experience in the Duke Anatomy Lab was transformative and inspired this month’s Reflections piece. She lives in Hillsborough with her husband, Neil, who at age 83 has begun to draw.
J. MICHAEL WELTON / W R I T E R
KEITH ISAACS / P H O T O G R A P H E R
Welton is architecture critic for The News & Observer and editor and publisher of architectsandartisans.com. He is also the author of Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand (Routledge: 2015). This month, he profiled architect Louis Cherry. “What I learned about Louis Cherry as I researched his profile is that while he studied English Literature at Duke in the 1970s, he was also painting. Frustrated that there was no visual arts program there, he transferred in his senior year to East Carolina University for a BFA in printmaking and photography. That meant seven years of undergraduate work before he attended N.C. State’s College of Design – which gave him, as an architect, a rare and deep grounding in literature and the arts. It shows in his work.”
Isaacs, a Raleigh native, recently returned to his roots after a four-year hiatus in Barcelona, and is enjoying rediscovering home. In this issue, he captured coworking spaces for Raleighites and Whiskey Kitchen for At the Table. He calls them both “stories that really showcase the growth and revitalization of Raleigh.” Getting to know “so many of the creatives, thinkers, and doers in the coworking spaces who are fueling the transformation of the city was inspiring,” he says. “Whiskey Kitchen, on the other hand, has brought so much life to a pivotal location for downtown…Like many of the coworking spaces, the restaurant is a great example of adaptive-reuse, which I think is key in preserving and developing the character of Raleigh.”
