This photograph shows Park Fisher, Bob Scroggs, and Hollis Penland carving wood outside of the woodshop on the campus of the John C. Campbell Folk School in the 1930s. The woodshop was located in the Mill House. Fisher was the head of the woodshop...
This photograph, taken around 1928, shows Park Fisher outside the original woodshop in the Mill House at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Fisher was in charge of the woodshop in the early years of the school. The water wheel at Mill House...
This photograph of Park Fisher was taken around 1945. Fisher was in charge of the original woodshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School when the shop was located at the Mill House.
This carved figure of a walking boy is a unique piece carved by Hope Caler Brown. It is made from fir, a wood rarely used by carvers who produced work for the John C. Campbell Folk School. Hope Brown and her husband Glenn carved with John C....
Carved from basswood by Hope Caler Brown, this large Christmas angel holds a trumpet. Hope Brown and her husband Glenn carved with John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin in the 1940s and sold their work through the Folk School's...
These two Virgin Mary figures were carved in holly by Hope Caler Brown as part of a nativity scene. Murrial Martin, a teacher at the John C. Campbell Folk School, originally designed crèche figures to be made by different carvers so that each...
This hissing goose (back left ) and large bird (front right) were carved out of buckeye by Glenn Brown and Hope Caler Brown, respectively. The large bird is marked "pattern," indicating an original prototype. Glen Brown was known for his carvings...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts Park Fisher holding hand-made hearth bellows. Fisher was in charge of the woodshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School when the shop was located at the Mill House. Note the...
This large guinea hen was carved in basswood by Glenn Brown. Brown was known for his carvings of geese, guinea fowl, and other birds. He began carving in 1939 with John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin and sold his work through...
This carved cat and kitten is a unique piece carved by Hope Caler Brown, the exact date of the piece is unknown. Hope Brown and her husband Glenn carved with John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin in the 1940s. In 1942 Hope Brown...
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows the exterior of the wood working shop at Cherokee High School. While many Cherokee carvers got their start carving at home under the guidance of an older family member, many then refined...
