Oral history interview with Hunter Kariher
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kariher, Hunter
label: Interviewer
content: Kessler, Jane
label: Names
content: Penland School of Handicrafts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Wood-carvers -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- North Carolina
label: Occupation
content: Artisans -- North Carolina
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Kariher, Hunter
label: Interviewer
content: Kessler, Jane
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hunter Kariher is a woodworker and administrator at the Penland School, Penland, N.C.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- North Carolina
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 May 22-23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.karihe92
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Hunter Kariher conducted 1992 May 22-23, by Jane Kessler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kariher discusses his education and early training; working for Wendell Castle; managing his own woodworking studio for seventeen years; his career at Penland School of Handicrafts beginning in 1977; becoming director of the school in 1989; former directors; the significance of Penland to the field of American crafts; Penland in comparison to the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and to Anderson Ranch; and his vision for the future of the school.