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35th Annual Artisans Show
Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: June 2024
Mountain Artisans Arts & Crafts Show will be staged June 28-29 at the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.
Laura Walkingstick
Mountain Artisans Arts & Crafts Show is celebrating its 35th Annual Summertime Show, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29, inside the upscale Ramsey Center on the Western Carolina University campus in Cullowhee.
This event features 60 local craftsmen’s original art and heritage crafts at great prices. Included is wood turning, quilting, master jewelers, Appalachian and pine needle baskets. Our local beekeepers have real sourwood honey.
Some of our Cherokee Artisans will be demonstrating their heritage art. We are honored to have teacher and artist Laura Walkingstick, making her corn shuck dolls.
Laura has been making art full-time for a living since 2021. She’s an instructor and offers cornhusk doll workshops locally, and at the prestigious John C. Campbell Folk Art School, collages and museums. She is self-taught in doll making. She started cloth doll making around 2006 and 2016 she began making Cherokee cornhusk dolls. She lives on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, her birthplace. In 2014 she received a BA in studio arts in ceramics from the Institute of American Indian Arts College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2018 received her MA in Art Therapy and Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her art pieces are narratives that she wants to invoke discussions around healing from traumas. Her subject matters are based on personal, family and historical traumas. She likes to experiment in different materials and try certain topics that are considered sensitive to some. Her creative process starts with childhood memories and childhood toys.
She hopes that her audience will relate to childhood toys that prompt fond or indifferent memories, inspiring healing through her art or invoke talks around mental health awareness.
Guitarist Ronnie Evans will be performing throughout the day.
There’ll be free convenient parking and concessions.
For more info, check out mountainartisans.net, or email [email protected].
