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Mountain Artisans Summertime’ Art & Crafts Show is coming to the WCU Ramsey Center July 4-5.This annual show features authentic crafts from the hands of 100 heritage and contemporary artisans and offers a wide selection of clay art, pottery, wood craft, folk and fine art and hard to find pine needle baskets, corn shuck dolls and pinecone birds. The glass artist will showcase panels, mobiles and sun catchers. Prize winning gourd art, master jewelers and unique birdhouses will be there. The doll makers will be working in corn shucks, fabric and collectables. The whole family can enjoy the demonstrations of vanishing arts like blacksmithing, wood wrighting and native flutes. Visitors can purchase a quilt or rustic furniture piece and meet the artist who made it. The Lucas family will be playing the old tunes on the psalteries they make. They will show how easy you can play, too. David Little, the Shoal Creek Carver, is the featured artist at the annual Mountain Artisans Summertime Craft Show. David Little, the Shoal Creek Carver, is the show’s featured artist. He will be using an adz and carving dough bowls right before your eyes. Little, artist in wood, was born in Arizona but he says he got to Georgia mountains as fast as he could. His family had roots in White County and in 1983 he moved there to stay.“I was a carpenter for 23 years. I guess I started working artistically with wood by making and designing fireplace mantles. My wildlife art started on functional wood pieces. Somewhere I started creating one of a kind furniture pieces. “About three years ago, I acquired my first blacksmith made adz and thought to carve a bowl from a slab of wood I had milled with my chain saw. “I was totally ‘hooked’ with the results. I felt I had finally found what I was supposed to be doing with my talent and life. Now, carving bowls is all I do. They are made well, one at a time. “My wood usually comes from downed trees. My choice is maple and cherry. With my chain saw, I mill my bowl blanks directly from a log. I cure my bowls daily by coating them with a food grade mineral oil. Curing time is five months. All my bowls are safe for food contact. “I am honored to be keeping a dying art alive,” said Little. The mountains best chair caner, David Ammons, will have a project he will be working on. If you ever wanted to play the Georgia Pluck Stick, Ronnie Miller will show you how. The soup mix folks from Mississippi are coming back too. Hours for the show are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Admission is $3 for adults. Children under 12, free. Free, convenient parking. The Ramsey Center is located off Highway 107. For show information go to www.mountainartisans.net or (828)524-3405 or email Doris Hunter, show director at
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