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The Southern Highland Craft Guild is headquartered at the Folk Art Center at milepost 382 [2] of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina. The Folk Art Center also houses the Guild's century-old Allanstand Craft Shop, [3] three galleries of exhibitions, a research library, and a large auditorium. The Guild crafts are seen by about a ...
The North Carolina State Fair Horse Show and Hunter Jumper Show takes place before, during, and after the fair at the Governor James B. Hunt Horse Complex. [29] The Folk Festival was first held at the fair in 1948 to showcase North Carolina's traditional music and dance. [30]
The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian folk art and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. [1] It also houses offices for three separate Parkway partners: the Southern Highland Craft Guild , the National Park Service , and Eastern National (known as EN ).
The Carolina Classic Fair, formerly the Dixie Classic Fair, is an annual fair held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The fair takes place every autumn on the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds (formerly the Forsyth County Fairgrounds), which is part of the Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex; the grounds are next to the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The N.C. Mountain State Fair is focused the people, agriculture, art, and traditions of Western North Carolina. The fair draws about 190,000 people to the WNC Agricultural Center each year. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for children and senior citizens. [1] The COVID-19 pandemic saw the 2020 fair get cancelled.
Charles N. Hunter is credited as one of the creators of the fair to highlight the progress of African Americans since emancipation. [1] Frankie E. Harris Wassom exhibited her art at the fair in 1886 and wrote a song about the fair. The fair was held in 1914. [4] A colored fair was also held in Winston-Salem. [5] [6]
Craft House. The school was founded in the 1920s in the isolated mountain town of Penland, Mitchell County, NC. In 1923, Lucy Morgan (1889–1981), a teacher at the Appalachian School who had recently learned to weave at Berea College, created an association to teach the craft [3] [4] to local women so they could earn income from their homes. [5]
The Folk School offers classes year-round in over fifty subject areas including art, craft, music, dance, and nature studies. Established in 1925, the Folk School's motto is "I sing behind the plow". [4] A contra dance at the Folk School. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a national historic district in 1983. [1]