Stecoah Valley Center, 2011
WCU Chancellor David O. Belcher (left) presents a Mountain Heritage Award to the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, which is represented by its director, Beth Fields (right.) Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center (Organizational Recipient) Built of native rock...Penland School of Crafts, 1985
Penland School of Craft Honored By WCU John Parris Asheville Citizens Times 9/29/85 CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University’s 1985 Mountain Heritage Award went Saturday to the Penland School of Crafts, a mountain institution founded by a mountain woman for...Mary Cornwell, 1989
Mary Cornwell receives 1989 Mountain Heritage Award Mary Cornwell of Waynesville, creator of the North Carolina State Fair’s Village of Yesteryear and founder of the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts, received the university’s Mountain Heritage Award September 30....
Craft Guild
In 1892, Frances Goodrich, a New England educated Presbyterian Missionary, moved to the Madison County community of Allanstand. Her goal: to improve the quality of life for mountain families. Her means was the promotion of traditional crafts to a growing American market for authentic handicrafts. . .
Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.