Lottie Queen Stamper teaching a basketry class at the Cherokee Training School, 1950; pictured, from left to right: Lois Rattler (Calonehuskie), Frances Bradley, Annie Queen, Lottie Queen Stamper, and ...

NATIVE EXPRESSIONS: Members of the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual in Cherokee produce a wide array of crafts. Pictured, clockwise from top left, are clan masks from buckeye by Pete Long, a white oak ...

PETIT JEAN MOUNTAIN - Shawna Morton Cain, a Cherokee basket maker, and Roger Cain, a Cherokee mask maker, were among the presenters at a meeting of the Arkansas River Valley Chapter of the Arkansas ...

CHEROKEE - When potter Joel Queen grinds mussel shells and massages the white flecks into lumps of moist, brown clay, he’s molding the past. The shell-tempered clay technique, recreated recently by ...

MARS HILL – A new exhibition titled “Qualla Arts and Crafts: Tradition and Innovation,” organized by Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center, opens March 13 at the Rural Heritage Museum ...

Levi West is a potter who begins with the ground itself — the earth. He has been researching sites around Cherokee towns where his ancestors would have harvested clay for pottery. But even when he ...

Press release from Blue Ridge National Heritage Area: The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will play host to the second in a series of listening sessions to help create a new craft trail across our ...