Southern Highland Craft Guild

[1] The Southern Highland Craft Guild is headquartered at the Folk Art Center at milepost 382[2] of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina.

The Folk Art Center also houses the Guild's century-old Allanstand Craft Shop,[3] three galleries of exhibitions, a research library, and a large auditorium.

At the Southern Mountain Workers Conference of 1926 Olive Campbell suggested forming an actual official crafts organization.

This was followed by planning meetings in 1928 and 1929 at which founding members decided the goals and by-laws of the Guild at the Spinning Wheel in Asheville, North Carolina.

[citation needed] In the 1940s TVA work led to the formation of the Southern Highlanders, a similarly-named craft marketing organization which was government sponsored and had shops at the Norris Dam in Tennessee and the Rockefeller Center in New York City.