M. Anna Fariello Craft Research Collection, PC.7038

Descriptive Summary

Title: M. Anna Fariello Craft Research Collection
Call Number: PC.7038
Creator: Fariello, M. Anna
Extent: 4.400 cubic feet
Repository: Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

Restrictions on Access & Use

Access Restrictions

Available for research

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

1. Ephemera

Cherokee Indian Fair

Craft Events

Metal

Miscellaneous

Music

Pottery

Textile

WNC Cherokee Events

WNC Cherokee Events Pamphlets

2. Craft Revival

Artist Lists

Shaping WNC Past & Present Project Overview

About the Project

The Crafts

The Collection

The Story

The People

Publicity

Marian Heard: Original Documents

Resources

Southern Highland Craft Guild

Support Letters

3. Craft Research Files

Architecture, General

Basketry, Appalachian

Basketry, Cherokee

Cherokee

Music

Pottery, Appalachian

Pottery, Cherokee

Textiles

Textiles - Patterns

Woodworking

4. Subject Files

African American Art

Appalachia, General

Appalachia, Economy

Appalachia in Popular Culture

Arrowmont School

Arts and Crafts Movement

Bauhaus

Cherokee

Cherokee Exhibits and Meetings

Friends of Mountain History

Grove Park Inn

Hambidge Center

Handmade in America

Hindman Settlement School

Museum Studies

Pine Mountain Settlement School

Seagrove Pottery

Tallulah Falls School

Tourism, General

Tourism, Regional Development (Jackson Co.)

Tourism, Regional Development (New River)

Tourism: Regional Development Toolkit

Women in the Arts

5. Articles

Artscrafts.org.uk, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Great Britain, 1850-1915

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

Blethen, Tyler, ed. "Irons in the Fire" Cullowhee, NC: Mountain Heritage Center Western Carolina University, 1992, 1992

Blumer, Thomas J. "Catawba Influences on the Modern Cherokee Pottery Tradition," Appalachian Journal 14, no. 2 (Winter 1987): 153-173

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

Brewin, David, Tyler Blethen. "By Hammer and Hand: Blacksmithing in Western North Carolina." Cullowhee, NC WCU, 1992 , 1992

Caldwell, Joseph R. "Cherokee Pottery from Northern Georgia." American Antiquity 20 (1954/1955) 277-280., 1955

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

Crawford, Wanda. "Going Back Chiltoskey." Appalachian Heritage 7, No. 4 (Fall 1979) 8-13, 1979

Crutchfield, James A. "A Primer of Handicrafts of the Southern Appalachians"

Coulter, D.W. "Cherokee Weavers Used Looms Over 200 Years Ago." Handweaver 18 93: 17-18.

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

Foscue, Edwin J. "Gatlinburg: A Mountain Community." Economic Geography, vol. 21. No. 3 (July 1945) 192-205., 1945

Greene, Joan."Goingback Chiltoskey, Master Carver." Now and Then, 3, no. 3 (Autumn 1986) 8-10 , 1986

Greenberg, Clement. "Avant Garde and Kitsch" 1939 , 1939

Hill, Sarah H. "Weaving History: Cherokee Baskets from the Springplace Mission." William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996) 115-137, 1996

Horton, Laurel. "In Search of the Appalachian Quilt." Then and Now 6, no. 3 (Fall 1989: 19-21.

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

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

Johnson, Geraldine N. "Plain and Fancy: The Socioeconomics of Blue Ridge Quilts." Appalachian Journal Vol. 10 No. 1 (Autumn 1982) 12-35., 1982

King, Duane H.."Vessel Morphology of Eighteenth Century Overhill Ceramics." Journal of Cherokee Studies 2 (1977) 154-169 , 1977

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

L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. "Uplifting the Southern Highlander: Handcrafts at Biltmore Estate Industries, Winterthur Portfolio 2002 37 (2-3) 123-146, 2002

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

Leftwich, Rodney L. "Cane Basketry of the Cherokees," School Arts 56 (Feb 1957): 27-30 , 1957

Leftwich, Rodney L. "Cherokee White Oak Basketry." School Arts 54 (1954) 23-26, 1954

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

Morris, Brian D. Thesis, "Art, Education and the Economy: A Collaborative Partnership." WCU

Stalcup, Anthony. "Goingback Chiltoskey [sic] Is My Name." Foxfire 15, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 122-127.

Stalcup, Anthony and Cheryl Wall. "Goingback Chiltoskey." Foxfire 17, No. 3 (Fall 1983): 166-177, 1983

Sudduth, Billie Ruth. "Math In A Basket"

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

Van Dommelen, David B. "Allen. H. Eaton, Dean of American Crafts", The Pennsylvania State University,

Watkins, Charles Alan. "Weaving Day At Penland: A Photographic Analysis." NWSA Journal 1999 11 (13) 18-23, 1999

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

Williams, Jonathan. "The Southern Appalachians," New York, 1966 Craft Horizons, xxvi 35-67, 1966

Odd and Assorted Craft Articles

Craftsmen, General

6. Artist Files

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Ames, Kenneth

Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. (Rugs)

Angel, Squire Wesley and Family (Hooked Rugs and Weaving)

Arneach, Ellen

Arrow Craft Shop

Arrowmont

Arrowood, Pansy Edwards

Arthur, Edith

Arthur, George G.

Asheville Normal School

Asheville Home School

Bachelder, Oscar Louis

Bader, William

Bailey, Jakie Robinson

Ball, Ed

Ballard, Viola T.

Banner, Leppo "Bud"

Barnes, Estrella

Barnhill

Beaver, Nolan (Brasstown Carvers)

Benfield, Zada

Benton, Joy Kime

Berea College

Berlison, Franky

Biddle, Edna

Bigmeat, Charlotte

Biltmore Industries

Bingham, Dean Brown

Blankenship, Arizona

Blauvelt, Mrs. W.H.

Blue Ridge Weavers

Boone, Daniel VI

Boone, Kelse

Boone, Lawrence

Boone, Wade

Brackens, Nobie Ammons

Bradley, James

Bradley, Nancy

Bradley, Rowena

Bradley, Seaborn

Brasstown Carvers

Brown, Elmo

Brown, Hope and Glen

Brown, Marian

Brown Pottery

Bryan, Nina

Bryson, Annie Lee

Buchanan, Roby

Buckner Family

Buff, Aaron

Bulgin, George

Bulgin, John

Burkett, Joe

Burt, Amy

Butler, Marguerite

Campbell, John C.

Campbell, Olive

Cannon, Lula

Cantrell, Oscar

Carpenter, Jacob II

Carter, Louie E.

Casey, Clifford

Cathey, Mr. and Mrs. George A.

Chalmers, Martha

Chatem, Peg

Cherokee Indian School

Cherokee Potters Guild

Chiltoskey, Goingback

Chiltoskie, Watty

Christ School

Clement, Nancy Rebecca

Cody, May Pearl

Coffey, Martha

Conley, Emma

Conseen, Nancy

Conway, Bob

Cooke, Doke

Cowan, Joseph Warrenton

Cowan, Lawrence D.

Creasman, Mark

Creasman, Wayne

Creech, Aunt Sal

Crossnore School, Inc.

Crowe, Amanda

Crowe, Birdie and Richard

Crowe, Gilbert

Crowe, Virgil

Crump, W.R.

Curtis, Mindy

Davidson, Hardy

Davidson, Mary Frances

Davis, Ben

Decker, Margaret

Deschamps, Mary Ritchie and Leon

Dingman, Helen

Dobbins, Charles

Dodge, William Waldo, Jr.

Donaldson, Clarence

Donaldson, Granny

Dorland Bell School

Dougherty, Sarah

Douglas, Clementine

Dow, Arthur W.

DuPree, Betty

Eaton, Allen

Erskine, Ralph

Estes, Herman and Mabel

Fishback, Ellen

Fishback, John

Fisher, Park

Fleming, Carmen

Fletcher, M.J.

Ford, Bonnie Willis

Ford, Howard C. (Tony)

Francis, Anna and Thayer

Franklin, Uncle Will

Garnett, Ethel

Gatlin, Joe

Gault, Lynn

George, Dinah

George, Lucy

George, Nice

Gilliland, B.S.

Glassie, Henry

Glenn, Bob

Glenn, Leonard

Godfrey, Joe and Pearl

Goodrich, Frances L.

Allanstand/Goodrich

Goodwin, John Owen

Graves, Nell Cole (Seagrove)

Green, Alice

Greene, Arvel and Jane

Greenhalgh, Paul

Hagaman, Ina

Hall, Jack

Harmon, Iris

Hartley, Hal

Hatchett, Granny

Hawkins, Ruth

Hayes, Charles

Henderson, Frank

Henry, Bill

Hensley, Bea

Hensley, Bea (Photos)

Hensley, Hayden

Hickman, Helen

Higgins, Clara

Hill, Boyd

Hill, Mrs. Mark

Hilton, Clara Maud & Ernest A.

Hodges, Mrs. C.G.

Holland, Sy

Hollingsworth, Gypsy

Howard, Virginia

Hoyle, Bascum

Inglish, Miney

Jane, Aunt

John C. Campbell Folk School

Johnson, Lillie (Aunt Newbie)

Johnson, Lonnie

Johnson, Nell

Johnson, Tom

Jude, Granny

Kalonaheskie, Elizabeth

Kesler, Sally

Kitchen, Aunt Lou

LaFrance, Theresa

Laney, Floyd

Ledford, Monroe

Ledford, Virgil

Lees-McRae Institute

Lewis, Meta

Lipe, Ethel

Lipe, Nellie

Liza, Aunt

Lizzie, Aunt

Locust, Sally

Long, Allen

Long, Posey

Long, Will West

Lord, Anthony

Lossiah, Betty

Lossiah Family

Lossiah, Hayes

Lossiah, William

Lowe, Nova

Lowrance, Aggie

Lowrance, Clara

Mace Family

Maney, Betty

Maney, John Henry

Maney, Louise Bigmeat

Maney, Marie

Mann, Ray

Mann, Tom

Martin, Edsel

Martin, Marcus

Martin, Murrial Galt

Martin, N.J.

Martin, Wade Hampton

Martin, W.J.

Mason, Otis

Mast, Josephine

Masters, Gus and Maggie

Meaders, Arie

McCarter, Mac

McClure, Sue

McKain, Alice

McNabb, Wilma

McRae, Hannah

Miller, Arch

Miller, Mrs. Leonard

Miller, Lucius

Moody, C.W.

Morgan, Georgie

Morgan, John

Morgan, Lucy Calista

Morris, J.A.

Murray, Esta Hyleman

Mountain Cabin Quilters

Murphy, Maggie

Nicholson, Frances Parker

Niles, Mr.

Nolan, Mrs.

Nye, Stewart

Owen, Ben

Owens, Melvin Lee

Owle, Dewey (empty)

Owle, Lloyd C.

Owle, Martha

Payne, Louise

Pelton, Herbert W.

Penland, J.O.

Penland School of Crafts

Penland Weavers and Potters

Perisho, Flossie Willis

Peters, Rupert

Pettit, Katherine

Phillips, Ossie

Phillips, Susan

Pitman, Louise

Presnell, Edd

Pressley, Willa Mae

Prown, Jules

Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual

Ramsey, Glen Arthur

Ray, Ollie Briggs

Reece, Doris "Momma Dot"

Reed, Jason

Redding, Winogene

Rich, Amber Jeane Hamlin

Rigsby, Mary Emma Shelton

Ritchie, Aunt Cord

Robbins, Edgar and Lloyd Spencer

Rogers, Mollie

Rogers, William

Roland, Marie

Ropetwister, Annie

Ross, Martha

Roycroft (Hubbard, Elbert)

Sallie, Aunt

Saylor, Gertrude

Shell, Mary

Shelton, Ann

Shelton, Betty Ammons

Sheppard, James E.

Shook, Molly

Shook, Ray

Sloop, Dr. Mary T. Martin

Smith, Fred G.

Smith, Gertrude

Smith, Helen

Smith, Willy

Smoker, Amanda

Sneed, Pocahontas (Pokie)

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

Sparks, Sadie

Sparks, Sally

The Spinning Wheel

Stalcup, Jesse Bryson

Stamper, Lottie

Stephens, Robert

Stephens, Walter B.

Stewart, Alex

Stines, Gertie Edwards

Strother, Virginia Dare

Swimmer, Amanda

Swimmer, Dorothy

Taylor Family

Taylor, Julia

Thompson, Mrs. W.B.

The Three Mountaineers

Tallulah Falls Industrial School

Trivette, Elsie

Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers

Ullman, Doris

Vance, Eleanor

Viner, Wilmer Stone

Wachacha, Martha

Wade, Sally Ann

Wahnetah, Cora

Wahnetah, John

Walker, Elmeda

Walker Sisters

Walkingstick, Alice

Watson, Albert

Watson, Annie

Watson, Ora

Watson, Willard

Watty, Elsie

Welch, Adam

Welch, Agnes (1925-)

Welch, Carol

Welch, Judith

Welch, Lula Nicey

Welch, Maude

Weave Shop

White, Joe

White, Odd S.

Wilder, Mrs. Jim

Willis, Birdie

Willis, Mrs. Henry

Willis, Joe

Wilson, Fanny

Wilson, Floyd

Wilson, Grandma

Wimpey, William Isaac

Winkler, Leander O.

Woody Brothers, (Arval, Frank, Paul, and Walter)

Woody, Aunt Cumi

Woody, Leila

Wootten, Bayard

Wolfe, Eva (1922-)

Wolfe, Minda

Wyatt, Rufus

Yale, Charlotte L.

Young, Gerald

Youngbird, Edmund (1922-1995)

Youngbird, Lizzie (Nannie)

Youngbird, Rebecca

Youngblood, Mildred

7. Projects

Blue Ridge Craft and Music Trails

From the Hands of our Elders

Fulbright - Panama

Great Smoky Mountains

Handmade Expo 2010

"Picturing Appalachia"

Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003

Smoky Mountain Made

8. Exhibits

Andy Warhol

Bill Brown: The Art of Transformation

Cherokee Language

Cherokee Masks

Clay USA

Color and Clay

Defining Ourselves

Iron: Forged, Tempered and Quenched

Iron Twenty Ten

Pottery Traditions in WNC

Spark of the Eagle Dancer

9. Academia

Awards

Faculty Scholarship

MA Thesis, 1993

Smithsonian Fellowship

10. Presentations

Craft

Digitization

"Woman to Woman"

11. Publications

Fariello, Anna: "Arts and Crafts in Appalachia: The Third Wave"

Fariello, Anna: "Behind the Mask: Documenting Historic Masking on the Qualla Boundary"

Fariello, Anna: Blue Ridge Roadways book

Fariello, Anna: "Building Upon the Stones of Venice: Ruskin's Role in the Arts & Crafts Movement"

Fariello, Anna: "Cherokee Doubleweave Baskets: 'The handsomest baskets I ever saw"

Fariello, Anna: "Cherokee Pottery: Something Made Pretty," and "Pottery Traditions in Western NC"

Fariello, Anna: "The Container as Metaphor"

Fariello, Anna: "Crafts and Craftspeople of the Appalachians"

Fariello, Anna: "Fire On the Mountain: Blacksmithing Festival, Spruce Pine, North Carolina"

Fariello, Anna: "The Folklorist's Digital Toolkit"

Fariello, Anna: "Get it in Writing! Documenting your Arts & Crafts Collection"

Fariello, Anna: "Handcrafted Heritage: The Craft of WNC"

Fariello, Anna: "The History of Cherokee Pottery"

Fariello, Anna: Images of America: Cherokee book

Fariello, Anna: Images of America: Christiansburg book

Fariello, Anna: "Sandra Blain: Markings & the Urge To Record"

Fariello, Anna: "Samuel Yellin and the Expression of Ruskin's Gothic"

Fariello, Anna: "Samuel Yellin Metalworkers: A Continuing Legacy"

Publications Cited In

Miscellaneous Articles, minor

Subject Headings

Handicraft

Cherokee Indians--Arts

Cherokee Indians--Basketmaking

Cherokee Indians--Wood-carving

Arts--Economic aspects

Appalachian region