Museum of the Cherokee Indian receives North Carolina Arts Council Grant

Cherokee One Feather
Oct 22, 2014
Museum of the Cherokee Indian receives North Carolina Arts Council Grant

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has received a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council for $56,905 for the year beginning July 1, 2014 through June 2015. The Arts Council has designated the Museum a “State Arts Resource” organization because of its role in preserving and perpetuating Cherokee traditions.

“The Museum appreciates this support because it enables us to carry out our mission,” said Bo Taylor, executive director. “Our community still holds on to many of our traditions. Support from the arts council allows us to help Cherokee artists, not only to pass on those traditions, but also to bring back traditions that have been lost.”

The Museum showcases Cherokee artists and performers at the “Cherokee Voices Festival,” the second Saturday in June, now in its eighteenth year. The event is sponsored by the Arts Council and is open and free to the public.

“This is one of the few events in Cherokee or in the Southeast where all the presenters are enrolled members of a federally-recognized tribe. They are the true tradition bearers,” said Barbara R. Duncan, Museum education director and folklorist....

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