The following is an excerpt from Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina by Liza Roberts with a foreword by Lawrence J. Wheeler and photographs by Lissa Gotwals, which is on sale today and available wherever books are sold. What is North Carolina art? Is it the pottery made famous by artists like Ben Owen III, whose family has been making earthen vessels in Seagrove for generations? Is it to be found in the new application of old techniques, like the wall-spanning frescos of Asheville’s Christopher Holt? What about the delicate tissue...