Pottery Making – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Louise Maney

"I was about six or seven when I started doing pottery," Louise Bigmeat Maney said....

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

Established more than a decade ago in the Big Sandy Mush section of Leicester, Jones...

Darrin Bark is a young Cherokee potter, primarily self-taught, who is steeped in the aesthetic...

Potter Brant Barnes learned his art more than thirty years ago in the mountains of...

Amanda Swimmer, one of the best-known potters in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, built...

Joel Queen is a ninth-generation potter, who traces his pottery lineage through the Bigmeat family...

Potter Rodney Leftwich says that he and his wife Kim "love the heritage of the...

Born in Caldwell County, Roger Hicks is a master finger-style guitar picker heavily influenced first...

Janet Calhoun, daughter of Glenn and Lula Bolick, was born in the Seagrove area while...

Lula Bolick grew up in the Seagrove area of Moore County, a member of a...

Glenn Bolick grew up in Caldwell County surrounded by sawmilling, storytelling, and music, and today...