Pottery Making – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Louise Maney

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

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

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

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

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

Melissa Ann Maney demonstrates traditional pottery making and also teaches hands-on pottery classes to groups...

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

Davy Arch tells Cherokee stories, presents lectures on Cherokee history and culture, and demonstrates carving,...