Tag: North Carolina

The South’s Democracy Struggle Reaches New Urgency

The South’s Democracy Struggle Reaches New Urgency

Benjamin Barber
“White supremacy in North Carolina rests in woman’s hands”

“White supremacy in North Carolina rests in woman’s hands”

Robbins Angela Page
A Real Evidence of Community

A Real Evidence of Community

Kate Medley
The Inner Banks

The Inner Banks

Megan Mayhew Bergman
In a Shallow Boat

In a Shallow Boat

Zachary Faircloth
Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell

Ryan E. Emanuel and Karen Dial Bird
Several Places at Once

Several Places at Once

Malinda Maynor Lowery
“Black Is Us the Beautiful People”

“Black Is Us the Beautiful People”

Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Dispatches from the Post-Roe Carolinas

Dispatches from the Post-Roe Carolinas

Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Preserving Black Crafts and Legacies

Preserving Black Crafts and Legacies

Simiyha Garrison

This short essay is about Simiyha's research as a visiting curator at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, where she developed an exhibit, Southern Foodways: The African American Experience, that focused on foodways and Black crafts in Moravian communities. This exhibition serves as a resource and tool to educate and enlighten those who do not know about African American influence on the Moravian diets and the artifacts they used and created during this time period. This exhibition incorporates archival documents, collections housed at Old Salem Museum, and historic research to articulate once-hidden African American food stories.

Art & Alchemy

Art & Alchemy

Katy Clune and Julia Gartrell

This set of twenty interviews, conducted between September 2020 and July 2021, opens the workshop door and steps behind the customer counter to reveal the artistry, satisfaction, and expressions of care behind repair.

Natural Born Subversive

Natural Born Subversive

Laurin C. Guthrie

This article examines the life and craft practices of dyer Dede Styles. Styles's knowledge of place, advocacy for her community, and deep life of care add important context to the history of environmental defense and struggles in the Swannanoa region of Appalachia. This article is the result of a series of oral history interviews conducted in 2020-21 and is an effort to represent Styles in her own words and in the context of scholarship on the complex history of crafts in the region. A member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild like her grandmother, Styles demonstrates and sells through the guild, continuing the complex and dynamic tradition of hybridized and ever-evolving regional craft in Appalachia. A lifelong resident of Lytle Cove, Styles is also a fierce advocate for her community and bioregion, and this article demonstrates how her craft practice is both a vehicle for and expression of that relationship and advocacy.