Beadworking – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Bernice Bottchenbaugh

Bernice Calhoun Bottchenbaugh has spent many years preserving and sharing Cherokee cultural traditions, just as...

Chuck and Peggy Patrick, natives of Blairsville, Georgia, grew up learning traditional mountain music and...

Shirley Cloer is a Cherokee artist and manager of the Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee....

When Eloise Maney was in college, she took an art class in which there was...

When Sonny Ledford teaches others about Cherokee culture, he says, "I tell about how I...

Richard Saunooke has been creating historically accurate and beautiful Native American dress and crafts for...

Polly Rattler teaches hands-on workshops in corn shuck doll making, beadwork, and miniature basketmaking. She...

Shirley Jackson Oswalt was a celebrated Cherokee beadworker, gourd carver, and maker of white oak...

Betty Maney makes white oak baskets, pottery, Cherokee dolls, and a variety of beadwork pieces....

Ed and Christina Goings are a young Cherokee couple who demonstrate a variety of Cherokee...