About the Project:
Heritage Partners
The Craft Revival’s digital collection is comprised of images submitted by seven regional Heritage Partners: the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown; the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, both in Cherokee; the Penland School of Crafts near Spruce Pine; and the Southern Highland Craft Guild, located in the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway northeast of Asheville. These regional organizations are joined by two Western Carolina University centers: the Mountain Heritage Center and Hunter Library’s own Special Collections Unit.
While Heritage Partner collections are considered of value to their home institutions, new connections and ideas emerge from comparisons across institutional lines. Through partnerships created on behalf of this project, we expect that a new understanding of the Craft Revival will emerge. The project continues to identify, document, digitize, and organize primary source materials into an online resource to provide access to historic records and visual images.
The Craft Revival website—Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present—and digital archive are managed and maintained by Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library as lead institution for the project. The project received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). This grant is administered by the State Library of North Carolina as part of NC ECHO: Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, a state initiative.