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The author, a Harkers Island native and teacher notes the work of her father, Wayne Davis, a 1987 founding member and first president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. What originally started out as a necessity for luring real ducks into a shooting range, aided in promoting the local economy as visitors began to be impressed with decoys as an art form.
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44602
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In 1924, a group assembled to support construction of a state art museum. In 1947, the North Carolina legislature set aside one $1 million for the purpose. Almost ten years later the museum opened its doors on Morgan street in Raleigh. The North Carolina Museum of art is credited as the first state sponsored art museum in the nation
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44601
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Making discovery of a redware pie plate at a Lexington County Fair in 1917, Jacques and Juliana Busbee founded Jugtown Pottery to showcase the work of North Carolina potters in the Seagrove community. After Jacques's death in 1947, Juliana was assisted by Ben Owen.
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44597
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North Carolina currently has three thriving schools dedicated to teaching such practices as weaving, ceramics, musical instrument making, book and jewelry making, carving and old-time music. These institutions are: Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, Penland School of Craft and the John C. Campbell Folk School.
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44596
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By the 1890s, North Carolina had lured a significant furniture manufacturing industry and became known as the Furniture Capitol of the World. This was all the in Piedmont region of North Carolina within a 150 mile radius of High Point.
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