In 1948, the guild presented the first Craftsman’s Fair of the Southern Highlands. By 1930, bylaws were adopted and 30 education centers comprised the guild’s 30 founding members.īy the 1940s, membership grew to nearly 150 members, including individual craftspeople as well as cooperatives, education and production centers. The leaders of those organizations and others met in 19 with a mission to establish a guild to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, and Penland Weavers and Potters at the Penland School, in reviving the old skills through classes and marketing efforts. Goodrich established Allanstand Cottage Industries in rural Madison County as a mail-order market for fine handwoven fabrics, and later she opened Allanstand Craft Shop in Asheville, which grew to carry a greater variety of items created by skilled mountain craftspeople.Īllanstand joined other institutions across the Southern Appalachians, including the John C. In the more remote communities of the southern Appalachians, however, lifestyles were slower to change, with individuals retaining more of the skills they needed to make by hand items of necessity.įrances Goodrich, a missionary involved in schools and churches across Western North Carolina, recognized those traditional skills as a way to foster economic development in the mountains. The story of the Southern Highland Craft Guild goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, when industrial growth across the nation began to make factory-made goods available to working people. Membership in the organization has always been, and continues to be, a great achievement for the craftspeople of the Southern Appalachians,” Collings said. “The guild has grown from 30 founding members to more than 750 members today who produce traditional and contemporary crafts in nine states. “For 70 years, the Southern Highland Craft Guild has served the craftspeople of the Southern Appalachians well with its craft exhibitions, demonstrations and educational outreach programs, marketing through its four shops, and fairs held twice each year,” Collings said in presenting the award. Collings, Western’s vice chancellor for academic affairs. Summers, executive director of the guild, accepted the award on the guild’s behalf at the 26th annual Mountain Heritage Day, held Saturday (Sept. Southern Highland Craft Guild Receives WCU’S Mountain Heritage Award 2000ĬULLOWHEE - The Southern Highland Craft Guild, a nonprofit organization founded in 1930 to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, conservation and marketing, is the recipient of Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Award for 2000.
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