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
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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
1. Projects
Fariello, Anna, "The Appalachian Craft Revival: Isolation and the Absence of I Ideology:
The Twin Myths of Appalachian Culture"
Fariello, Anna, "Building Upon the Stones of Venice: Ruskin's Role in the Arts & Crafts
Movement," Style 1900, November 2001
Fariello, Anna, "The Container as Metaphor: Figurative Works by Donna Polseno," Ceramics:
Art and Perception No. 37 1999
Fariello, Anna, "Crafts and Craftspeople of the Appalachians," Smithsonian Folklife
Festival Booklet, 2003
Fariello, Anna, "From Absurdity to Austerity"
Fariello, Anna, "The Koger Collection: 4,000 Years of Chinese Porcelain," Style Weekly,
May 26, 1987
Fariello, Anna, "Market Forces as Moral Value: The Questionable Aesthetic," Ceramics
Monthly, February 1996
Fariello, Anna, "Material Meaning," The Shape of Ceramic History, 1996?
Fariello, Anna, "Material + Technology: Reconsidering the Object"
Fariello, Anna, "New Images, New Icons: Coast to Coast A Woman of color National Artists'
Book Project," Ikon Magazine
Fariello, Anna, "Not Just a Pot: Guild Artists Craft a Way of Life," Mountain Express,
July 2006
Fariello, Anna, "On Fire for Heritage," The Blacksmithing Nexus of WNC," Mountain
Express, 2006
Fariello, Anna, "Personalizing the Political: the Davis Family Circle in Richmond's
Hollywood Cemetery, " Monuments to the Lost Cause Women, Art, and the Landscapes of
the Southern Memory,; University of Tennessee Press, 2003
Fariello, Anna, "Samuel Yellin and the Expression of Ruskin's Gothic," Style 1900
Fariello, Anna, "Samuel YellinMetalworkers: A Continuing Legacy," Nineteenth Century,
Vol. 12, No. 2
"Fariello,. Anna, "Sandra Blain: Markings & the Urge to Record, Ceramics Art and Perception,
No. 42, 2000
Fariello, anna, "Spread the Word: Region Has Arts Offerings Galore," Roanoke Times,
June 1997
Fariello, Anna, "To Thrive, the Region Must Forge its own Identity," Roanoke Times,
September 15, 1995
Fariello, Anna, "Validation and the Art Establishment," State of the Craft II, August
1989
Fariello, Anna, "What's the "State of the Arts" in our State? " Roanoke times, March
10, 1999
Miscellaneous Exhibits and Markers
From the Hands of our Elders
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
MA Thesis -The Sacred and the Mundane, 1993
2. Craft Revival
Shaping WNC Past & Present Project Overview
Southern Highland Craft Guild
3. Craft Files
4. Ephemera
Arts Council - Studio Tours
5. Subject Files
Appalachia in Popular Culture
Blue Ridge Music and Craft Trails
Cherokee Exhibits and Meetings
Friends of Mountain History
Hindman Settlement School
Pine Mountain Settlement School
6. Articles
Artsandcraft.org, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Great Britain, 1850-1915
Auston, 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 Fires." Cullowhee, NC: Mountain Heritage Cetner
Western Carolina University, 1992, 1992
Boris, Eileen. "Craft Shop or Sweatshop? The Uses and Abuses of Craftsmanship in Twentieth
Centur Amecia." 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 north 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
Couter, 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
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
Stalcup, Anthony and Cheryl Wall. "Goingback Chiltoskey." Foxfires, No. 3 (Fall 1983):
166-177, 1983
Taylore, 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
Watkins, Charles Alan. "Weaving Day At Penland: A Photographic Analysis." NWSA Journal
1999 11 (13) 18-33, 1999
Wilson, Kathleen Curtis. "The Handweaving of Allie Jospehine Mast, 1861-1936
Williams, Jonathan. "The Southern Appalachians, New York, 1966 Craft Horizons, xxvi
35-67, 1966
Morris, Brian D. Thesis, "Art Education and the Economy: A Collaborative Partnership."
Crutchfield, James A.A "Primer of Handicrafts of the Southern Appalachians"
Odd and Assorted Craft Articles
7. Artist Files
Allanstand Cottage Industries
Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. (Rugs)
Angel, Sqiuire Wesley and Family Hooked Rugs and Weaving
Beaver, Nolan (Brasstown Carvers)
Cathey, Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Crowe, Birdie and Richard
Deschamps, Mary Richie and Leon
Dodge, William Waldo, Jr.
Graves, Nell Cole (Seagrove)
Hilton, Clara Maud & Ernest A.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Johnson, Lillie (Aunt Newby)
Nicholson, Frances Parker
Penland Weavers and Potters
Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual
Rigsby, Mary Emma Shelton
Robbins, Edgar and Lloyd Spencer
Sloope, Dr. Mary T. Martin
Sneed, Pocahontas (Pokie)
Southern Highland Handicraft Guild
Tallulah Falls Industry School
Tryon Toy-makers and Wood-carvers
Woody Brothers, (Arval, Frank, Paul, Walter)
Youngbird, Lizzy (Nannie)
Subject Headings
Handicraft
Cherokee Indians--Arts
Cherokee Indians--Basketmaking
Cherokee Indians--Wood-carving
Arts--Economic aspects
Appalachian region