CHEROKEE BASKETS EXHIBIT TO CLOSE
WITH OCT. 29 RECEPTION AT WCU
Western Carolina University and the Asheville Art Museum will hold a reception on Sunday, Oct. 29, to celebrate the exhibition and upcoming tour of “Transformations: Cherokee Baskets in the Twentieth Century.”
The reception will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at WCU's Mountain Heritage Center, where the exhibit of historical and contemporary Cherokee baskets has been on display since August. The exhibit at WCU closes on Oct. 29, but will be traveling to museums in Wilmington, Raleigh and Johnson City, Tenn., over the next year.
In conjunction with the reception, Cherokee basketmaker Katrina Maney will be conducting a basketmaking class and demonstration at the Mountain Heritage Center from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. the same day. The class is full, but reception attendees will have an opportunity to watch Maney and her students at work.
The exhibit is organized by the Asheville Art Museum, with assistance from guest curator Sarah H. Hill, Betty Dupree, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual Inc. It is sponsored by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, the Friends of Mountain History and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Support to send the exhibit to additional venues across the Southeast is coming from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.
The exhibit is divided into three categories: Early Tourism (1890-1940), the Qualla Cooperative Period (1940-1960s) and Expanding Markets (1960s-1997.) It examines changes in material, form, function, size, price, trade networks, ornamentation, dyes, weavers and the fundamentals of basketmaking.
The exhibit will be on display at the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington from Nov. 3 through Dec. 31; at the B. Carroll Reece Memorial Museum in Johnson City from Feb. 1, 2007, to March 31, 2007; and at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh from Aug. 1, 2007, through March 31, 2008.
The Mountain Heritage Center is located on the ground floor of WCU's H.F. Robinson Administration Building. For more information, contact the museum at (828) 227-7129.
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