New for 2009 are the free Performance and Gallery Tours available to Cultural & Event Value Package ticket-holders. Between June 13 and August 29, visitors can indulge their creative sides with live arts and crafts demonstrations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Qualla. Following the Legends and Social Dancing demonstration at 1 p.m., gallery tours will be conducted by Cherokee Friends, special ambassadors dressed in native regalia who serve as guides during your visit.
Call our Group Tour Coordinator now and schedule a custom experience for your group with Native artists at Qualla. Learn the ancient craftsmaking skills from the very people who have had these skills passed down from generation to generation. Truly an unforgettable event – and you take home your creation as a lasting memory!
Founded in 1946 with the purpose of preserving and advancing Cherokee arts and crafts, the Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual, Inc., is today the oldest and leading Native American Arts cooperative in the United States.If practice makes perfect, the beauty of Cherokee arts and crafts today should come as no surprise. The Cherokees practice of pottery, basket weaving, and tool-making go back ten thousand years.Of course, we all descend from ancestors who made the needed items of daily life and celebration. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here. Unlike most of us today, the Cherokees are still in touch with their ancient art and craft traditions. Now you can be in touch as well, by bringing home the available, affordable work of contemporary Cherokee masters. A rich scope of arts and crafts is available in Cherokee to admire and acquire. Pottery provides a stunning example.
