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 ...

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 ...

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 ...