M. Anna Fariello Craft Research Collection, PC.7038
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- M. Anna Fariello Craft Research Collection
- Call Number
- PC.7038
- Creator
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Fariello, M. Anna
- Extent
- 5.2 cubic feet
- Repository
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Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
Restrictions on Access & Use
Use Restrictions
Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as
stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers
are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well
as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], PC.7038, M. Anna Fariello Craft Research Collection, State
Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC.
Collection Overview
This collection consists of articles, notes, photocopies, booklets, flyers, and ephemera
relating to craft and craft revival in Western North Carolina. The bulk of the materials
were assembled as part of the research for the Western Carolina University online,
grant-funded project entitled Craft Revival Shaping Western North Carolina Past and
Present. The bulk of the project ran from 2005 to 2009 and the purpose was to create
a research-based website to document the historic effort to revive handcraft in the
western part of the state. While these files were used for that project, they also
include materials in addition to that effort relating to craft in the region.
Biographical/Historical
Curator and scholar, Mary Anna Fariello is a former Smithsonian Renwick Fellow in
American Craft. Her research at the Smithsonian focused on the southern craft revival
and led to her work at Western Carolina University, where she documented the region's
material culture. Author of 8 books, numerous book chapters and articles, she presented
over 150 conference papers and invited lectures, and directed over 30 federal, state,
and private grants. Since 1990, she curated over 30 exhibitions for regional and national
museums, almost all focusing on American craft.
Among her digital projects, while an Associate Professor at Western Carolina University,
she curated the online digital archival collections--
Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past & Present https://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CraftRevival/
Cherokee Traditions: From the Hands of our Elders https://www.wcu.edu/library/digitalcollections/cherokeetraditions/
Great Smoky Mountains: A Park for America https://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/GSMPark/
and Picturing Appalachia. The Library of Congress profiled her work in Digital Preservation,
its online blog.
Anna Fariello holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics and Mixed Media from
James Madison University, a Master of Arts in Museum Studies/Art History from Virginia
Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Douglas College at Rutgers University.
An Associate Professor at three state universities, she taught courses in Museum Studies
at Radford University and Virginia Tech, Virginia state universities.
She has been honored with the following awards:
2010 Brown Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society
2013 Guardians of Culture award from the Association of Tribal Archives and Museums,
2016 Preservation Excellence award from the North Carolina Preservation Consortium,
and a
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Highland Craft Guild.
She lives in Cullowhee, NC.
Contents of the Collection
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1. Ephemera
WNC Cherokee Events Pamphlets
Ephemera
2. Craft Revival
Shaping WNC Past & Present Project Overview
Craft Revival
Marian Heard: Original Documents
Craft Revival
Southern Highland Craft Guild
Craft Revival
3. Craft Research Files
4. Subject Files
Appalachia in Popular Culture
Subject Files
Cherokee Exhibits and Meetings
Subject Files
Friends of Mountain History
Subject Files
Hindman Settlement School
Subject Files
Pine Mountain Settlement School
Subject Files
Tourism, Regional Development (Jackson Co.)
Subject Files
Tourism, Regional Development (New River)
Subject Files
Tourism: Regional Development Toolkit
Subject Files
5. Articles
Artscrafts.org.uk, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Great Britain, 1850-1915
Articles
Austin, Peter, "The Ironwork of Tony Lord." In Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We all Remember
Well, Vol. II, Asheville: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, 2001 35-37
, 2001
Articles
Blethen, Tyler, ed. "Irons in the Fire" Cullowhee, NC: Mountain Heritage Center Western
Carolina University, 1992, 1992
Articles
Blumer, Thomas J. "Catawba Influences on the Modern Cherokee Pottery Tradition," Appalachian
Journal 14, no. 2 (Winter 1987): 153-173
Articles
Boris, Eileen. "Craft Shop or Sweatshop? The Uses and Abuses of Craftsmanship in Twentieth
Century America." Journal of Design History [Great Britain] 1989 2 (2) 175-192
, 1989
Articles
Brewin, David, Tyler Blethen. "By Hammer and Hand: Blacksmithing in Western North
Carolina." Cullowhee, NC WCU, 1992
, 1992
Articles
Caldwell, Joseph R. "Cherokee Pottery from Northern Georgia." American Antiquity 20
(1954/1955) 277-280., 1955
Articles
Cheek, Pauline Brinkley. "The Hooked Rug Workers of Madison County, North Carolina:
A Narrative Record" in Robert S. Brunk, ed. May we All Remember Well, Vol. 1. Asheville:
Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc. 1997, pp. 8-35., 1997
Articles
Crawford, Wanda. "Going Back Chiltoskey." Appalachian Heritage 7, No. 4 (Fall 1979)
8-13, 1979
Articles
Crutchfield, James A. "A Primer of Handicrafts of the Southern Appalachians"
Articles
Coulter, D.W. "Cherokee Weavers Used Looms Over 200 Years Ago." Handweaver 18 93:
17-18., 1993
Articles
Duff, Wendy. "Historians' Use of Archival Sources: Promises and Pitfalls of the Digital
Age." The Public Historian, Vol.. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2004): pp. 7-22.
, 2004
Articles
Foscue, Edwin J. "Gatlinburg: A Mountain Community." Economic Geography, vol. 21.
No. 3 (July 1945) 192-205., 1945
Articles
Greene, Joan."Goingback Chiltoskey, Master Carver." Now and Then, 3, no. 3 (Autumn
1986) 8-10
, 1986
Articles
Greenberg, Clement. "Avant Garde and Kitsch" 1939
, 1939
Articles
Hill, Sarah H. "Weaving History: Cherokee Baskets from the Springplace Mission." William
and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996) 115-137, 1996
Articles
Horton, Laurel. "In Search of the Appalachian Quilt." Then and Now 6, no. 3 (Fall
1989: 19-21.
Articles
Israel, Jerry. "The Mace Family of Chair Makers." Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We all
Remember Well, Vol. 1 Asheville: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc. 1997 pp. 176-200.
, 1997
Articles
Johnson, Bruce E. "To Serve Unnoticed and To Work Unseen: Eleanor Vance, Charlotte
Yale and the Origins of Biltmore Estate Industries," in Robert S. Brunk Ed. May We
All Remember Well, Vol. II Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.
2001, pp. 241-266.
, 2001
Articles
Johnson, Geraldine N. "Plain and Fancy: The Socioeconomics of Blue Ridge Quilts."
Appalachian Journal Vol. 10 No. 1 (Autumn 1982) 12-35., 1982
Articles
King, Duane H.."Vessel Morphology of Eighteenth Century Overhill Ceramics." Journal
of Cherokee Studies 2 (1977) 154-169
, 1977
Articles
Lauterer, Maggie Palmer. "The Carvings of Wade Hampton Martin." In Robert S. Brunk,
ed. May We all Remember Well, Vol. 1 Asheville: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.
1997, 98-113
, 1997
Articles
L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. "Uplifting the Southern Highlander: Handcrafts at Biltmore Estate
Industries, Winterthur Portfolio 2002 37 (2-3) 123-146, 2002
Articles
Leftwich, Rodney Henderson. "The Nonconnah Pottery of Tennessee and Western North
Carolina, 1904-1918," in Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We all Remember Well, Vol. II Asheville:
Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc. 2001 pp. 70-90, 2001
Articles
Leftwich, Rodney L. "Cane Basketry of the Cherokees," School Arts 56 (Feb 1957): 27-30
, 1957
Articles
Leftwich, Rodney L. "Cherokee White Oak Basketry." School Arts 54 (1954) 23-26, 1954
Articles
Lloyd, Timothy. "Whole Work, Whole Play, Whole People: Folklore and Social Therapeutics
in 1920s and 1930s America." Jounral of American Folklore, Vol. 110, no. 437 summer
1997 (239-259)
, 1997
Articles
Morris, Brian D. Thesis, "Art, Education and the Economy: A Collaborative Partnership."
WCU
Articles
Stalcup, Anthony. "Goingback Chiltoskey [sic] Is My Name." Foxfire 15, no. 2 (Summer
1981): 122-127.
Articles
Stalcup, Anthony and Cheryl Wall. "Goingback Chiltoskey." Foxfire 17, No. 3 (Fall
1983): 166-177, 1983
Articles
Sudduth, Billie Ruth. "Math In A Basket"
Articles
Taylor, Terry B. "Sunset Mountain Pottery" in Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We all Remember
Well, Vol. 1 Asheville: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc. 1997, pp. 50-62, 1997
Articles
Van Dommelen, David B. "Allen. H. Eaton, Dean of American Crafts", The Pennsylvania
State University,
Articles
Watkins, Charles Alan. "Weaving Day At Penland: A Photographic Analysis." NWSA Journal
1999 11 (13) 18-23, 1999
Articles
Wilson, Kathleen Curtis. "The Handweaving of Allie Josephine Mast, 1861-1936, "in
Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We All Remember Well, Volume 1 Asheville, NC: Robert S. Brunk
Auction Servies, Inc. 1997, pp. 138-155
Articles
Williams, Jonathan. "The Southern Appalachians," New York, 1966 Craft Horizons, xxvi
35-67, 1966
Articles
Odd and Assorted Craft Articles
Articles
6. Artist Files
Allanstand Cottage Industries
Artist Files
Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. (Rugs)
Artist Files
Angel, Squire Wesley and Family (Hooked Rugs and Weaving)
Artist Files
Beaver, Nolan (Brasstown Carvers)
Artist Files
Cathey, Mr. and Mrs. George A.
Artist Files
Crowe, Birdie and Richard
Artist Files
Deschamps, Mary Ritchie and Leon
Artist Files
Dodge, William Waldo, Jr.
Artist Files
Graves, Nell Cole (Seagrove)
Artist Files
Hilton, Clara Maud & Ernest A.
Artist Files
John C. Campbell Folk School
Artist Files
Johnson, Lillie (Aunt Newbie)
Artist Files
Nicholson, Frances Parker
Artist Files
Penland Weavers and Potters
Artist Files
Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual
Artist Files
Rigsby, Mary Emma Shelton
Artist Files
Robbins, Edgar and Lloyd Spencer
Artist Files
Roycroft (Hubbard, Elbert)
Artist Files
Sloop, Dr. Mary T. Martin
Artist Files
Sneed, Pocahontas (Pokie)
Artist Files
Southern Highland Handicraft Guild
Artist Files
Tallulah Falls Industrial School
Artist Files
Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers
Artist Files
Woody Brothers, (Arval, Frank, Paul, and Walter)
Artist Files
Youngbird, Edmund (1922-1995)
Artist Files
Youngbird, Lizzie (Nannie)
Artist Files
7. Projects
Blue Ridge Craft and Music Trails
Projects
From the Hands of our Elders
Projects
Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003
Projects
8. Exhibits
Bill Brown: The Art of Transformation
Exhibits
Iron: Forged, Tempered and Quenched
Exhibits
Pottery Traditions in WNC
Exhibits
Spark of the Eagle Dancer
Exhibits
9. Academia
10. Presentations
11. Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Arts and Crafts in Appalachia: The Third Wave"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Behind the Mask: Documenting Historic Masking on the Qualla Boundary"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: Blue Ridge Roadways book
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Building Upon the Stones of Venice: Ruskin's Role in the Arts & Crafts
Movement"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Cherokee Doubleweave Baskets: 'The handsomest baskets I ever saw"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Cherokee Pottery: Something Made Pretty," and "Pottery Traditions
in Western NC"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "The Container as Metaphor"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Crafts and Craftspeople of the Appalachians"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Fire On the Mountain: Blacksmithing Festival, Spruce Pine, North
Carolina"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "The Folklorist's Digital Toolkit"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Get it in Writing! Documenting your Arts & Crafts Collection"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Handcrafted Heritage: The Craft of WNC"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "The History of Cherokee Pottery"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: Images of America: Cherokee book
Publications
Fariello, Anna: Images of America: Christiansburg book
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Sandra Blain: Markings & the Urge To Record"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Samuel Yellin and the Expression of Ruskin's Gothic"
Publications
Fariello, Anna: "Samuel Yellin Metalworkers: A Continuing Legacy"
Publications
Miscellaneous Articles, minor
Publications
Subject Headings
Handicraft
Cherokee Indians--Arts
Cherokee Indians--Basketmaking
Cherokee Indians--Wood-carving
Arts--Economic aspects
Appalachian region
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