Team news
The Hunter Library’s digital “home team” is assessing where we’ve been and where we are going. To better understand our work, Jason Woolf is interviewing Craft Revival project partners. We hope to better understand the dynamics of our partnerships and build a stronger foundation for future digital projects.
North Carolina Folklife Institute
We are working with the North Carolina Folklife Institute (NCFI) to propose an LSTA-funded digitization project with them. NCFI has a collection of over 30,000 images made by tradition bearers throughout the state. We are proposing to digitize NC Heritage Award winners to create a new digital collection and have submitted the library’s Letter of Intent.
New on the database
There are new images from Qualla Arts and Crafts, including maple baskets, rivercane mats, historic photographs of baskets by Carol Welch, historic photographs of Lucy George, and baskets by Emily McCoy and Nancy Conseen. With the addition of the mats and maple baskets, the project has completed the photography of all of Qualla’s basketry.
More on the database
George Frizzell has added 65 items from Hunter Library’s Special Collections to provide a regional context for the Craft Revival time period. From the Museum of the Cherokee, there are 11 images of Will West Long. The Southern Highland Craft Guild has added two compound objects (of six pages each). These are additional Craft Education Project questionnaires from Hilton Pottery and Watauga Industries.
New on the website
See the biography of basket weaver, Nancy Conseen at:
http://www.wcu.edu/craftrevival/people/Baskets_NancyConseen.html
New on the website
We’ve added links to important partners, including Cherokee Artist Directory, Cherokee Heritage Trails, and North Carolina Folklife Institute from the NC Orgs page and the Southern Folklife Collection from the Archives page. You can visit those sites from here:
http://www.wcu.edu/craftrevival/resources/index.html
New on the team!
Kate Carter had her baby. Olivia Ruth Carter was born Sunday, November 15th
She was 6# 5 oz. and 19 ¾ inches. Long and lean. Mother and baby are doing well.
Partner news
We’ve recently heard from Peter Koch who is teaching an Appalachian survey history course. He is using the website as a teaching tool in several classes.
In the news
The Craft Revival project is highlighted on the State Library web page. Every month the library creates a themed page. For December, the theme is Celebrate NC Arts & Crafts. You can view the page at:
http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/colls/themes/december.html
In the news
WCU graduate Jill Ingram wrote a wonderful piece on the Cherokee Basketry book and the From the Hands of our Elders project. You read it at:
http://www.wcu.edu/25963.asp
Native American Heritage Month
Lucas Rogers set up a display for the Native American Heritage Expo held at the WCU student center for Native American Heritage month. The display included information about the Craft Revival project and posters illustrating rivercane harvesting and basket weaving.
Conference presentation
Anna Fariello presented information about the projects at the Georgia Art Education Conference in a plenary session. The session featured representatives from the Campbell Folk School, Penland, and Arrowmont, a Craft Revival-era school in Tennessee. National representation came from Craft in America and the World Craft Council.
Web hits
This semester we've had a total of 10,000 visits to the website, with 8,250 of those being unique visitors. The monthly average is about 3,000 visits from an average of 2,500 unique visitors, with the peak month being October. There were an average of 750 visits per week from an average of 700 unique visitors. Of the 10,000 total for the semester, 3,000 have been from North Carolina, with Georgia, New York, California, and Florida between 300 and 500 each. Thanks to Joel Marchesoni for putting this together. Joel has added Google Analytics to the team’s bag of tricks.
Anna
Hunter Library | Library Insider | Last updated: 10/2/2009 Joel Marchesoni