Nancy Conseen at the Folk Art Center

Nancy Conseen at the Folk Art Center

Artisans

Arts and crafts movement

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

The snapshot shows Southern Highland Craft Guild member, Nancy Conseen demonstrating basketry in the entrance to the Folk Art Center, Asheville, North Carolina. Behind her is a poster with the schedule of craft demonstrations sponsored by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild (now the Southern Highland Craft Guild) which operates out of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Nancy Conseen (1929-1997) was born in Cherokee, North Carolina on the eve of the Great Depression. When she was just six years old, she learned to weave white oak and honeysuckle baskets from her mother, Caroline Conseen. In school she learned to make rivercane baskets from Lottie Stamper. In 1981 Conseen was selected North Carolina Craftswoman of the Year in 1981. Her work twice appeared at the White House.

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Photographic Media

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1980/1990

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photographs

eng

StillImage

16537

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16537

2010-09-17

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.25" x 4.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival