DECORATIVE CRAFTS
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Car Culture

Larry Rathburn,
    Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia
For over twenty years, designing
and building hot rods was
Rathburn's hobby, but in the last
ten years, he has built cars full-time.
His son is following in his footsteps,
extending the family car-building
tradition into a third generation.

Tom Van Nortwick,
    Ferrum, Franklin County, Virginia
Tom started pinstriping in
1980 after watching a striper at
a local car show. Today, he is
a nationally known designer,
pinstriper, and automobile artist.
He has pinstriped many things
besides cars, including a guitar
and an antique coffee grinder.

Pottery

Fatou Wade,
    Ndjilasséme, Senegal, West Africa
Fatou Wade has worked with clay
since childhood. She hand-builds,
fires, and decorates large pots and
other ceramics for households in
her rural farming community. She
uses techniques that were known
by Africans who went from the
Senegambian region to Virginia.

Quilting Stories
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54-40 African American Quilters
    Guild, Hampton, Virginia
The 54-40 African American
Quilting Guild began quilting
in 1993. The group has grown
from eight founding members
to over twenty members who
promote and preserve the art
among African Americans in
Virginia. www.5440quilters.com

Virginia Quilt Museum,
    Harrisonburg, Virginia
The Virginia Quilt Museum
displays quilts by early and
contemporary quilters. The
museum's collection consists of over
150 quilts that date from 1810 to the
present. www.vaquiltmuseum.org

Virginia Tribal Crafts

Lee Lovelace, Mechanicsville,
    Hanover County, Virginia
Lee Lovelace is a young member
of the Upper Mattaponi tribe, who
incorporates Native American
themes in his drawings. In 2006,
he, along with other dignitaries
from the Virginia tribes, traveled to
Kent, England, where he showed
his art to English admirers.

Mildred Gentle Rain Moore,
    Pamunkey Indian Reservation,
King William County, Virginia
Born and raised on the Pamunkey
Indian Reservation, Mildred
Moore learned the art of
traditional Powhatan Blackware
as a child from the Elder Woman
at the Pottery School. In 2004,
she received the Governor's
Community Service Award.

Debora Littlewing Moore, West Point,
    King William County, Virginia
Debora Littlewing Moore, daughter
and apprentice of Mildred Gentle
Rain Moore, is the founding
president of the Intertribal Women's
Circle, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the preservation of
tribal traditions. Debora is also an
accomplished Southern Traditional
Dancer and a member of the Red
Crooked Sky Dance Troupe.

Randy Robinson,
    Southampton County, Virginia
Randy Robinson is a member of
the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe.
His artwork primarily consists of
scratchboard—drawings scratched
into ink painted over a thin layer of
white clay, which has been laid over
poster board or another stiff paper.

George Whitewolf,
    Lynchburg, Virginia
George Whitewolf serves as
Assistant Chief of the Monacan
Indian Nation and is an
accomplished craftsman and teacher.
He watched his grandmother
and grandfather create baskets
and chairs from materials they
gathered themselves. He has shown
his own work at powwows and
museums across the United States.

Karenne Wood, Charles City,
    Charles City County, Virginia
Karenne Wood is a Ford Fellow
in linguistic anthropology at the
University of Virginia. She is a
former researcher at the National
Museum of the American Indian
and was chairwoman of the
Virginia Council on Indians for
four years. She is also a beader,
award-winning poet, and dancer.