Cherokee Pottery: From the Hands of Our Elders (NC)
Curator and scholar, Anna Fariello is associate professor at Western Carolina University's Hunter Library, where she is building digital collections focused on the region's material culture. She is a former research fellow with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and former field researcher for the Smithsonian Folklife Center. Fariello traveled to Central America as a senior Fulbright fellow and serves as museology specialist for the U.S. Fulbright Commission. The recipient of the 2010 Brown Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society, she currently serves on the board of the World Craft Council. She is author of several book chapters, fifty articles and conference presentations and curator of over forty exhibitions. Among her publications, she is authorCherokee Basketry: From the Hands of our Elders(2009) and coauthor of the textbook,Objects & Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft(2003).