RutabagAs Debbie Beyerlein, Mary Copersmet, and Elaine Hofman have returned from a week’s study at the Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. The school, founded in 1925 and modeled after traditional folk schools in Scandinavia, was begun as an educational and social mission to the people of rural Appalachia.
Today these handicrafts are still being taught, and the school, in collaboration with Western Carolina University and others, is documenting the crafts of the region. The Craft Revival movement refers to a resurgence of valuing and preserving traditional, hand-made, useful objects while providing a market for these culturally significant crafts.
