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Now under construction along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, the Folk Art Center will offer a unique blend of educational and entertainment activities while preserving the traditional folk arts of mountain culture. Crafts will be a major focus of the center. Other folk arts, like storytelling, folk music, and dancing, will also be represented. When completed in 1979, the $2 million center will house a gift shop, library, museum, information center, craft and exhibit work area, and a 300-seat auditorium.
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31535
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The Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, which opened earlier this year, is a major regional educational and activity center for the crafts and folklore of the Southern Highlands. Craftsmen regularly demonstrate their workmanship at the center, and folk dancing, folk music and film presentations are part of its regular schedule.
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43145
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"At the Folk Art Center just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, artisans share the language of Appalachian craft with younger generations." A repository for Appalachian craft, the Folk Art Center in addition to being a museum, houses a bookstore, library, auditorium and the Southern Highland Craft Guild's Allanstand Craft Shop. established in 1895, it's the oldest shop of its king in America.
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43348
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Contributors and promiters mentioned are the Ledbetter Folk Art Auction, the Folk Art Center in Asheville, the John C. Campbell Folk School and the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park.
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