Woodcarving – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Willard and Ora Watson

Willard Watson and his wife Ora were among the extraordinary traditional artists in the Watson...

Edd Presnell was raised in a musical family and community near Beech Mountain. The area...

Stanley Hicks was born in 1911 in Watauga County, and raised on Spice Creek along...

Like many traditional artists, Cherokee carver Amanda Crowe first learned her craft by watching others....

Cherokee tribal elder Goingback Chiltosky was a master woodcarver who influenced several generations of carvers....

Cherokee artist Robert Queen practices traditional forms of woodcarving that were handed down to him...

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...

Ronnie Bradley remembers whittling as a very young child. "Let any little boy get ahold...

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

Lloyd Carl Owle uses his knowledge of legends and stories to carve masks, birds, and...

Freeman Owle tells traditional Cherokee stories, carves wood and stone, and talks about Cherokee culture...