Editor's Note: This post is part of a series called "From the Archives" - a look back at the people who served and helped shape the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The author of the series is Bonnie Krause. Bonnie works at Allanstand Craft Shop and volunteers in theSHCG Library. Goingback Chiltoskey, known as G.B., was born on the Cherokee Qualla Boundary ...
Editor's Note: This post is part of a series called "From the Archives" - a look back at the people who served and helped shape the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The author of the series is Bonnie Krause. Bonnie works at Allanstand Craft Shop and volunteers in theSHCG Library. Fannie Rebekah Mennen was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1903, child of Rabbi Ephraim Mennen and ...
Editor's Note: This post is part of a series called "From the Archives" - a look back at the people who served and helped shape the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The author of the series is Bonnie Krause. Bonnie works at Allanstand Craft Shop and volunteers in theSHCG Library. Isadora Williams at the October 1965 Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Born in 1884, Isadora ...
Editor's Note: This post is part of a series called "From the Archives" - a look back at the people who served and helped shape the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The author of the series is Bonnie Krause. Bonnie works at Allanstand Craft Shop and volunteers in theSHCG Library. The members of the Martin family of Swannanoa, NC were known for their talents as Appalachian wood ...
On Saturday, April 21, 2012 the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Highland Craft Guild was held at the Folk Art Center. The following people were honored during the Awards Ceremony: Honorary Membership Anthony Cole Karol Kavaya Walter Powell Heritage Craft Affiliate Brown's Pottery Wayne Henderson Life Membership Carlson Tuttle In Memoriam Kitty Alcott Garry Barker Evelyn Brown Phillip Brown Joyce Cooper Lenda DuBose Jim Hiett Hal McClure Ralph Morris Roy ...
Alice Pratt hosts a weaving demonstration at the 1957 SHCG Craftsmen's FairAlice Pratt: A Life of Weaving and ServiceEditor's Note: This post is the second in a series called "From the Archives" - a look back at the people who served and helped shape the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The author of the series is Bonnie Krause. Bonnie works at Allanstand Craft Shop and volunteers in ...
(New Member Orientation at the Folk Art Center, March 6, 2012 - shown left to right:John Turner, Tony Dills, Greg Shaffer, JJ Brown, Simona Rosasco,Paul Weller, Shelby Mihalevich, Harry Hearne, Patte Vanden Berg, Lucy Gibson, Bob Gibson, Barb Butler, Donata Jones, Beth Andrews, David Wright)The following artists were accepted into the Southern Highland Craft Guild following the first jury ...
This post is first in the series, "Book Report," which will review new acquisitions to the Robert W. Gray Library here at the Folk Art Center. The author of the series is Guild librarian and archivist, Deb Schillo. The Robert W. Gray Library at the Folk Art Center was able to add several new titles to the collection this month. We are keeping an eye on Lark's 500 series, since the books ...
Claudia and John work on a collaborative project at Yummy Mud Puddle.There are many paths which lead people to settle in the mountains of western North Carolina. For Claudia Dunaway the move to Burnsville was a sort of homecoming. She grew up in Reidsville, NC and has fond memories of visiting the mountains in her childhood. For her husband, John Richards – home is where Claudia is (and, ...
