ASHEBORO – Learn
about the Elders, 20th century artisans who have kept key Cherokee craft
traditions alive, in a talk by Western Carolina University professor Anna
Fariello at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 11, at the Asheboro Public Library.
Fariello’s
appearance, part of the North Carolina Humantities Council’s Road Scholars
program, is free and the public is invited.
Focusing on the key
traditions of basketry, pottery and carving, this highly visual event
recognizes the Elders and the thousands of unnamed makers who created and
maintained traditions during centuries past.
Fariello is author
of the “From the Hands of our Elders” series, which includes three books and a
website produced to share important archival collections of the Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians with the general public. For this project, she was honored in
2013 with a Guardians of Culture Award from the Association of Tribal Archives,
Libraries, and Museums.
She also penned the
interpretive travel guide Blue Ridge Roadways, and was named recipient
of the 2010 Brown Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society.
This project is
made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a
statewide non-profit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the Friends of the Library.
The library is
located at 201 Worth Street. For more information, call 336-318-6803.
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