Cratis Dearl Williams (April 5, 1911 - May 11, 1985) is considered the father of Appalachian Studies. Born to Curtis and Mona Whitt Williams in Caines Creek of Lawrence County, Kentucky, Williams worked as public school teacher, high school...
Noyes Capehart Long (he paints and writes under the name of Noyes Capehart) was a faculty member in the Art Department at Appalachian State University from 1969 until his retirement in December 1997. Noyes Capehart's work was featured in the...
Dai Bing-Heng (Dr. Bingham Dai), 1899-1996, was one of the first native-born Chinese to be trained in the new theories of psychiatry and psychology. In 1929, he travelled from China to the United States, where he obtained a M.A. (1932) and Ph.D....
Jerra Unglesbee has been quilting for 20 years having taught herself to quilt when she moved to Watauga County. She has been a member of the Mountain Laurel Quilt Guild for about 15 years and won first place in a guild-wide competition for crazy...
Joe Deutsch is a resident of western Pennsylvania but more importantly is a summer resident of Boone, North Carolina. He has been painting for about 3 years and is, for the most part, self taught with the exception of some help from his wife of 45...
Ila Taylor Justice (b. September 22, 1914) joined Appalachian State Teacher College faculty in 1949 and served for thirty-one years in the Department of Educational Media (now Library Science). For seventeen years Justice served as chair of the...
Dr. Robert Lysiak was born on the lower east side of New York City and raised on Long Island. He holds a Ph. D. in Middle English Language and Literature and taught medieval literature and linguistics in the English Department at Appalachian from...
Michael Morel was a senior Music Industry Studies major at Appalachian State University. He is a musician, painter, and photographer and has been shooting for nearly a decade. His work has been seen in galleries as well as in print and online...
Kathleen Campbell is an Associate Professor of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Her interests lie in both the visual arts and in art history and criticism. Campbell has had several awards and grants, both for her...
Once upon a time, Frederick the Alaskan Brown Bear was part of an educational exhibit program at Appalachian State University. Frederick and the other exhibits visited many public schools in the region during each school year. Frederick spent his...
The women of Deerfield United Methodist Church have made quilts for a number of years to raise money for church projects. They prefer traditional quilt patterns and invest much time in hand quilting. One member provides a wooden frame for the...
My life and art are co-conspirators." On Christmas, 2004, as Mueller sat sketching quilt ideas in his sketchbook, pictures of the Pacific tsunamis came onto the television. In short course the pattern he was devising at the time reduced itself...