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["Kathy Evans (b. July 8, 1962, Morgantown, WV) of Bruceton Mills and Margaret Bruning of Elkins are participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, in an apprenticeship titled, Sheep to Shawl: The Art of Raising Sheep and Creating Fiber Arts. Evans is a fifth-generation farmer and co-owner with her husband Reid of Evans Knob Farm in Preston County where she cultivates Certified Naturally Grown vegetables and raises sheep and poultry. She teaches and exhibits her fiber arts both in West Virginia and across the country and has been featured in Modern Farmer and Morgantown Magazine. Bruning grew up on a goat farm in upstate New York and has been a lifelong fiber artist. She and her husband David raise sheep at their homestead in Randolph County.Read a profile of Evans and Bruning on the West Virginia Folklife blog:https://wvfolklife.org/2020/11/04/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-kathy-evans-margaret-bruning-sheep-to-shawl/Evans Knob Farm website: https://www.evansknobfarm.com/Poe Run Craft and Provisions: http://www.poerun.org/"]%

1. Yarn spun by Margaret Bruning

Identifier:
4224.EvansKathyBruningMargaret.Photo.027.11.2.20
Title:
Yarn spun by Margaret Bruning
Date:
2020-11-02
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Woolen and worsted spinning, Wool, Textile crafts, Fiberwork, Spinning
Location:
Elkins (W. Va.), Bruceton Mills (W. Va.)
["Doug Van Gundy of Elkins led an apprenticeship in old-time fiddle of the Greenbrier Valley with Annie Stroud of Charleston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Doug Van Gundy is an eighth-generation West Virginian who learned old-time fiddle from Greenbrier County fiddler Mose Coffman through the 1993 Augusta Heritage Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Annie Stroud, of Charleston, is a Greenbrier County native who began playing violin at an early age, and through the apprenticeship, is now learning old-time fiddle tunes local to her home county. She plays fiddle with the Allegheny Hellbenders string band and is a member of the Morgantown Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance.See our feature on Van Gundys apprenticeship with Stroud here: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/01/23/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-doug-van-gundy-annie-stroud-old-time-fiddling-of-the-greenbrier-valley/"]%

2. Portrait of 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship participants Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud

Identifier:
4224.VanGundyStroudAnnie.Photo.001.6.12.18
Title:
Portrait of 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship participants Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud
Date:
2018-06-12
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Folk music--West Virginia, Fiddle tunes, Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.), Old-time music, Fiddling, Apprenticeship programs
Location:
Elkins (W. Va.)