Record #:

24042

Author(s):

Shapiro, Leah

Abstract:

A non-profit organization uses a bus to travel to communities and provide creativity, movement, and activism by providing craft workshops to locals.

Source:

The Laurel of Asheville (NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 10 Issue 8, August 2013, p92-93, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Handicraft--Asheville; Handicrafts--Asheville; Non-profit organizations; Handicraft

Record #:

22421

Author(s):

Abstract:

In 1994 Becky Anderson was a founding director of Handmade in America, an Asheville nonprofit that connects crafts to tourism and other sustainable development in Western North Carolina. At the time the organizers hoped it would expand the crafts industry and transform the economically depressed region into the crafts center of America.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. 28 Issue 2, January 20 2010, p94-100, il, por

Subject(s):

Handmade in America; Handicraft--Asheville; Artisans--Asheville

Record #:

3007

Author(s):

McDaniel, Lynda

Abstract:

When John Cram came to Asheville in 1972 to open a craft shop, he was told he wouldn't succeed. Today, he owns craft and art galleries, including New Morning Gallery and Blue Spiral I, that gross over $2.5 million a year.

Source:

North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 54 Issue 8, Aug 1996, p43-44, il

Subject(s):

Cram, John; Art galleries, Commercial--Asheville; Handicraft--Asheville