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Alvarez, Raymond. 2014. “Living Small: Marjorie Wolverton’s Journey to West Virginia.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 40, no. 2 (Summer): 54-59. WWII English war bride and miniature dollhouse furniture artist.
Baker, Luther D. 2013. “Finley Taylor: Early Richwood Photographer” [b. 1887]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 39, no. 4 (Winter): 22-29. Accompanying early 20th-century photos of life in Nicholas County lumber camps are taken from Baker’s 2012 book, The Cranberry Wilderness, which tells the story of the area’s dominant lumber and timber industries.
Becker, Jane. 2015. “Lucy Morgan: The Penland School of Handicrafts and the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival.” In North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. 2, ed. M. Gillespie and S. McMillen, 77-100. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Bundrick, Eli. 2013. “A Modern-Day Blacksmith.” Foxfire Magazine 47, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter): 6-13. Instructions on how to craft several traditional implements, and a credit to the John C. Campbell Folk School.
Carnegie Museum of Art. 2015– . “Photo Essay” [monthly CMOA blog]. Pittsburgh: Ca
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One of Nancy Johnson's "Underground Railway" paintings. (Photo by Bob Cassell)
Angela Wampler
May 27, 2008
Does the culture and geography of Appalachia influence your work? If so, how? What aspects of the culture? Describe your relationship with the area.
Fields: Our family home existed within a community beside the Norfolk and Western railroad tracks, not the ideal place one would chose to locate or build a home, with a railroad in front and a river that, all too often, overflowed in back. The community was predominantly black, dictated mainly due to either economics or the times, and that made it even more unique, because of the harmony that existed between the families, both black and white, that lived there.
In respect to Appalachian culture and influence, I incorporate the use of turn-of-the-century barn wood to frame my artwork, or as a background to photograph my leatherwork. To me, it is symbolic of something that will withstand the test of time.
Johnson: I feel that living in the Appalachian area does influence my work. Much of my work depicts the home and culture in which I grew up as well as the breathtaking scenery of Southwest Virginia. Through my art I chronicle my family's history as well as the history of my people.