Don’t miss this chance to gather with your fellow Cherokees for a fun and educational two hours! Bring a willing family member or your distant cousin. Join Cherokee Gadugi or not, you’ll enjoy the occasion!
The program features a presentation by Cherokee Artist, Rose Drake! Rose is an award-winning Cherokee weaver whose style ranges from traditional to contemporary. She will discuss Cherokee basketry from pre-contact to today.
Ms. Drake did research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History. That research focused on historic and pre-historic Cherokee baskets.
Rose, with her colleagues, worksat the Spiro Mound Museum to create baskets modeled after prehistoric fragments for hands-on education at the museum.
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience authentic Cherokee basketry. Meeting address: 9015 Grand Ave., NRHills.
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