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Arts and crafts, as far as the eye can see

As the center of one of the top folk art and crafts regions in the United States, this picturesque city is an ideal base for launching day trips to find and enjoy traditional and contemporary works.

More than 4,000 people residing in 23 western North Carolina counties make at least part of their living producing art and crafts. These include paintings, sculptures, intricately patterned and hand-sewn quilts, hand-forged jewelry, pottery with custom-created glazes, blown glass of delicate prism-like colors, ornate pieces carved from fine-grained native wood, fabrics woven of hand-spun wool, and much more.

Here you can spend a day, a week, a month, or even years seeing, learning about, and purchasing beautiful handmade art, and perhaps even shaping some of your own.

By Dave Luebben | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p14s01-trgn.html?s=hns

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Kentucky’s art will make people sing, too

By Patricia Harris and David Lyon | Contributors to The Christian Science Monitor

The Kentucky Folk Art Center is full of surprises. For every carved tableau of musicians pickin’ and grinnin’ on the front porch, there’s a phantasmagoric painting of heaven and hell. For every whimsical rooster assembled from tractor parts, there’s an imaginary monster on the head of a cane.

That’s what happens when you set out to collect the untutored artistic expressions of one of the most expressive parts of the country. The people in this corner of Appalachia have always had a talent for art and music. Tradition is strong, but so is innovation.

The Kentucky Folk Art Center (KFAC) was established nearly 20 years ago to document a renaissance in the state’s folk art. As the movement gathered steam, the center gathered art, moving to a former grocery warehouse in 1998 to accommodate the growing collection. The revival has never flagged.

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p16s03-trgn.html?s=hns

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