All of the collections are currently housed in the organizations’ headquarters in the Folk Art Center that is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. The Southern Highland Craft Guild Collections consist of library, archives, and a permanent collection of art objects and artifacts. Information on the craft fairs, special events, exhibitions, shops, and membership can be found on the Southern Highland Craft Guild's website. The Guild's initial formation was rooted in western North Carolina and since the 1950s has been headquartered in Asheville. Second in age only to the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, the Guild now represents over 900 craftspeople in 293 counties of 9 southeastern states, known as the Southern Highlands. With a mission to both educate and market, the Guild has since grown to become one of the strongest craft organizations in the country. In 1930, the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild, later the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild (and now the Southern Highland Craft Guild) was officially chartered. In 1929 many of these craft revival administrators came together around the concept of an umbrella organization that would further the revival in handmade objects. Schools teaching traditional crafts and selling newly made products sprung up throughout rural Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Its mission is to ensure the legacy of the artists, this art medium, and the value of ceramic art collections around the world.From the 1890s to the 1920s, the southern Appalachian region witnessed a revival in the production and sale of handmade items such as woven coverlets, hand hewn furniture, cornhusk dolls, and carved animals. This is a searchable, on-line database of American studio ceramic makers, working from 1946 to present and their marks, signatures, back stamps etc. Martha Vida is the founder and executive director of THE MARKS PROJECT , a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that has created the first online research hub for American studio ceramics. Our Angel will match $1 for every $3 donated.) Help us continue to improve your search experience, increase the number of artists in the catalog, and expand our research. TMP has until Mato win a $10,000 from an Angel benefactor. Help to research and document current and past hard-to-find clay artists Craft Guild members.Connect us to collectors and museums across the United States, especially the states and regions of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.Help Assure the Success of the Southern Highland Craft Guild Legacy Project Further, we are so excited at the connections and possibilities that have been set in motion by this recognition and funding. We are beyond grateful to the Center for Craft Creativity & Design for their grant to help capture the legacy of the Southern Highland Craft Guild's clay artists, and honored to be in the company of Museum of Craft And Design, and the Portland Museum of Art, and other worthy institutions and artists. The Marks Project in Greenwich, CT has been awarded a $10,000 grant to document the work of the clay artists of the Southern Highland Craft Guild to be added to a larger database of American studio ceramics since 1946, Honored and Excited
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