interview by Olivia Springer . photo by Beth Ellen

Name: Abby Wood

Age: 24

How long have you lived here? Five months. I moved here from Ohio.

Where did you go to school? I went to Ohio University and studied ceramics.

Why Asheville? I needed to get out of Ohio because I had been there all my life. I wanted to get a job at a gallery, so I work at a couple—Woolworth Walk and Ray Pottery in The Grove Arcade.

What do people say when you tell them you’re from Ohio? Ohio doesn’t bring a lot to people’s mind—only football, which I don’t care a lot about.

Me neither. What do you care a lot about? Pretty much ceramics and the art world.

What are your ceramics like? I make non-traditional, non functional, more conceptual work.

You remind me a lot of Audrey Hepburn. Do you get that often? I was Audrey Hepburn for Halloween last year, and I’ve loved her ever since I was young. I watched her movies with my mom.

What do you like about her? She is classic beauty, so charming. I didn’t know there was a thing with art school girls that like her too, but there is.

And weren’t you in a fashion show recently? Yes, for Sew Moe. That was a last-minute thing. A friend of a friend asked me to do it. I felt like I was making faces the whole time.

Were you afraid of falling on the runway? I definitely made sure I wore non-slip shoes.