The Asheville Antiques Fair hosts special events
throughout the weekend including our Heirloom Roadshow
and the Expert Lecture Series.
Heirloom Roadshow Saturday,
November 5, 2011
10:00am - 4:00pm
Crowne Plaza
Bring your favorite treasures to
the Heirloom Roadshow. Three appraisers will be
available to give you an evaluation of your most
treasured heirlooms. The charge for evaluations will be
$16 for one item, $18.00 for two items and $20.00 for
three items. In addition, you must purchase a general
admission Fair ticket. Click to
Purchase Tickets.
Su has been an independent
jewelry appraiser, specializing in jewelry, gemstones
and watches for 17 years. She routinely appraises for
wholesale and retail jewelry establishments as well as
auction houses, banks, attorneys, probate courts, the
U.S. Marshall’s Office and individuals. She offers
convenient, secure appraisals in the Asheville area.
Bob is President of Brunk Auctions
in Asheville, North Carolina. Brunk Auctions specializes
in fine antiques, decorative arts, furniture, painting,
silver and folk art. Brunk Auctions currently has a
staff of sixteen and enjoys a world wide reputation for
excellence.
Bob Ruggiero
Ruggiero & Associates
bob@ruggiero-associates.com
Bob is a 25 year member of the
Appraisers Association of American. After a fifteen year
career with Sotheby’s International as their Southeast
Regional Director in Palm Beach, he now operates
Ruggiero and Associates, an appraisal and online auction
firm specializing in Fine Arts and Period Antiques.
The following items will not be
evaluated:
Sporting Materials, Comics, Toys, Collectors Plates,
Commercially Mass Produced Items (ie.: Franklin Mint),
Books, Autographs, African (Tribal) Art, Coins, Judaica,
Asian Paintings or Prints, Costume or Silver Jewelry,
American Indian or High Karat Foreign Jewelry, Charm
Bracelets.
2011 Lecture Series
Appalachian Harmonies
Collecting and Preserving Mountain
Music and Crafts
Sponsored by Deerfield Episcopal
Retirement Community
We are pleased
to have three nationally recognized speakers joining us
for the 65th Asheville Antiques Fair Lecture Series.
Monies raised from the 2011 Fair will be donated to a to
Mars Hill College’s Bascom Lamar Lunsford Archive
Collection. Having received the prestigious National
Endowment for the Arts grant, our donation will be
matched by funds from the NEA grant. For this reason,
our speakers will focus on the unique culture of the
Blue Ridge Mountains – both performing and visual in the
form of pottery.
Minstrel of the Appalachians:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford as Folk Music Collector
Note: We are
delighted to offer this rare opportunity to hear the
story and the conservation measures being taken to
preserve this lost art, endemic to the culture of
Western North Carolina. A truly unique musical genre,
and a pioneer who recognized the value of musical
expression created from a combination of distinctive
cultural circumstances. Because of the special nature of
this lecture, which was presented in conjunction with a
Smithsonian Exhibition, we are offering three
presentations, unprecedented in our history of
educational programs. We thank Karen Paar for the
generosity of her time and expertise, for the benefit of
our fairgoers.
Speaker: Karen Paar, Archivist,
Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
Location: Dogwood Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel Main Building
Dates and Time: Friday, November 4, 2011 at 11am
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 11am
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Bascom Lamar
Lunsford placed mountain music at the center of his long
life and varied career. He made important contributions
to Appalachian music
as a promoter, through festivals
such as the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, and as a
performer. Central to all these activities was Mr.
Lunsford's passion for collecting and preserving the
region's music. Bascom Lamar Lunsford's collection of
over 2,300 handwritten folk songs and ballads is housed
in the Southern Appalachian Archives of Mars Hill
College's Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies.
Archivist Karen Paar will discuss this collection and
what it tells us about Mr. Lunsford's efforts to
preserve Appalachian music.
Karen
Paar grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and as an adult
lived in Oberlin, Ohio and Washington, D.C. before
moving back to the Tarheel State. She attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she
received a Ph.D. in Latin American History. Ms. Paar
held a research fellowship at the Institute for Southern
Studies at the University of South Carolina before
moving to Asheville. She has worked in Raleigh at the
North Carolina State University Libraries while pursuing
a Master of Library Science degree from North Carolina
Central University, with coursework in archives from the
Public History Program at North Carolina State
University. Ms. Paar has been the Archivist for the
Ramsey Center at Mars Hill College since March of 2008.
“Mountain Music and Dance”
Speaker: Phil Jamison
Location: Dogwood Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel Main Building
Date and Time: Saturday, November 4th, 2011 at 1pm
Western North
Carolina is an area rich in traditional music and dance.
This presentation will trace the historical development
of these traditions from their European,
African-American, and Native American folk roots up to
the present day. The various musical instruments
(fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, guitar, and mandolin) and
traditional dance styles (flatfooting, square dancing,
and clogging) will be discussed and demonstrated.
Phil Jamison is
nationally-known as a dance caller, musician, and
flatfoot dancer, and he has called at dances and music
festivals throughout the country and overseas since
1975. A longtime member of the Green Grass Cloggers, his
flatfoot dancing was featured in the film, “Songcatcher”.
Phil is also a dance historian and has written many
articles about traditional dancing for the Old-Time
Herald magazine. He is currently working on a book about
the history of southern Appalachian dance. Phil lives in
Asheville, NC where he teaches Mathematics and
Appalachian Music, and Appalachian Studies at Warren
Wilson College.
WNC Collectable Folk and Art
Pottery from 1845-1950
Speaker: Rodney Leftwich
Location: Dogwood Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel Main Building
Date and Time: Saturday, November 4, 2011 at 2pm
Mr. Leftwich
will cover a range of topics, all with the common
denominator - Western North Carolina, and specifically,
Buncombe County. Buncombe County’s first potteries were
utilitarian and created crocks, jugs and churns
with
earth toned wood ash glazes. Influenced by the potteries
of Edgefield, SC they created the first face jugs in NC.
The audience will enjoy learning about “art pottery”,
including the creations of Walter B. Stephen at both his
Nonconnah and Pisgah Forest potteries (Arden). Stephen
was well known for his cameo wares done in pate-sur-pate
and for his crystalline glazes - the first in the South.
Mr. Leftwich will also speak to the work of Walter
Stephen’s friend, Oscar Bachelder of Luther, near
Candler, North Carolina.
Both Rodney
Leftwich and his wife Kim are natives of Western North
Carolina. As full-time potters, they are deeply inspired
by the history of North Carolina pottery. In the late
1970s Rodney learned firing techniques directly from
Burlon Craig, helping Craig load and fire his groundhog
kiln. He researched and collected works by the region’s
early potters, some of which is currently on loan to the
Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis for a major exhibition
of Pisgah Forest and Nonconnah Pottery. Leftwich has
authored Pisgah Forest at Nonconnah: The Potteries of
Walter B. Stephen, and is a co-author of the North
Carolina Art Pottery Identification and Value Guide. Mr.
Leftwich has written numerous articles as well as
informational articles for museums.
What You Need to Know to
Get the Most out of Your Lecture Experience:
Expert
Lectures are available to all 65th Asheville
Antiques Fair attendees
Our
educational lecture series are included in the price
of the Fair Ticket
All
lectures will be held in the “Dogwood Room” at the
Crowne Plaza resort.
There will
be an opportunity for “Question and Answer” at the
end of the lecture.
Directions to the “Dogwood
Room” at the Crowne Plaza.
From the EXPO
Center (location of the Fair): The Expo Center building
is adjacent to the main resort. To get to the Dogwood
room from the floor of the Expo Center you may walk or
drive to the main lobby. If you are staying at the
Crowne Plaza, your guest key will allow you to walk via
the covered walkway leading into the hotel. Turn right,
go past the ballroom on your left and the Dogwood Room
will be on your left. If you are not a guest of the
hotel, we suggest driving to the front entrance and
follow the directions as listed below. It is easily
walkable, but you will need to walk outside, around the
buildings to the front entrance.
From the front
entrance of the Crowne Plaza: From the entrance of the
main lobby, you will see a restaurant in front of you to
your left. Turn left, and the Dogwood Room will be
immediately on your right, directly across from
Mulligan’s Bar. There will be signage to direct you.
as a promoter, through festivals
such as the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, and as a
performer. Central to all these activities was Mr.
Lunsford's passion for collecting and preserving the
region's music. Bascom Lamar Lunsford's collection of
over 2,300 handwritten folk songs and ballads is housed
in the Southern Appalachian Archives of Mars Hill
College's Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies.
Archivist Karen Paar will discuss this collection and
what it tells us about Mr. Lunsford's efforts to
preserve Appalachian music. 
Karen
Paar grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and as an adult
lived in Oberlin, Ohio and Washington, D.C. before
moving back to the Tarheel State. She attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she
received a Ph.D. in Latin American History. Ms. Paar
held a research fellowship at the Institute for Southern
Studies at the University of South Carolina before
moving to Asheville. She has worked in Raleigh at the
North Carolina State University Libraries while pursuing
a Master of Library Science degree from North Carolina
Central University, with coursework in archives from the
Public History Program at North Carolina State
University. Ms. Paar has been the Archivist for the
Ramsey Center at Mars Hill College since March of 2008.
Phil Jamison is
nationally-known as a dance caller, musician, and
flatfoot dancer, and he has called at dances and music
festivals throughout the country and overseas since
1975. A longtime member of the Green Grass Cloggers, his
flatfoot dancing was featured in the film, “Songcatcher”.
Phil is also a dance historian and has written many
articles about traditional dancing for the Old-Time
Herald magazine. He is currently working on a book about
the history of southern Appalachian dance. Phil lives in
Asheville, NC where he teaches Mathematics and
Appalachian Music, and Appalachian Studies at Warren
Wilson College. 
with
earth toned wood ash glazes. Influenced by the potteries
of Edgefield, SC they created the first face jugs in NC.
The audience will enjoy learning about “art pottery”,
including the creations of Walter B. Stephen at both his
Nonconnah and Pisgah Forest potteries (Arden). Stephen
was well known for his cameo wares done in pate-sur-pate
and for his crystalline glazes - the first in the South.
Mr. Leftwich will also speak to the work of Walter
Stephen’s friend, Oscar Bachelder of Luther, near
Candler, North Carolina.