Title	Helen Bullard at the Craftsman's Fair, 1963
Alternate Title	Helen Bullard at the Southern Highland Handicraft Fair, October 1963
Date created	1963
Theme	Performing Identity
Subtheme	Folk Culture
Subject-LCSH	Artisans Arts and crafts movement Handicraft Women
Keyword	Women artists
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Gatlinburg
County Name	Sevier County
Description	Black and white photograph of a middle aged woman with wavy hair and glasses, seated in an exhibit booth and holding a doll. She wears a shirtwaist dress and a nametag. Visible on the covered tables behind her are several carved wood sculptures of women's heads, as well as a small full-length sculpture of a woman holding a swaddled baby.
Historical Note	Sculptor Helen Bullard (Krechniak) moved to Cumberland County, Tennessee, with her writer husband from Chicago in 1934. She was both a chronicler of time and place and an active craft artist. A member of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild from 1951 on, Bullard showed sculptural work at fairs as well as the more popular and saleable dolls with which she began her career, having learned to carve from Polly Page in Pleasant Hill. the Southern Highland Handicraft Fairs, which began in 1948, were held twice a year, at different locations in the mountain region, including Gatlinburg, Asheville, and Berea. According to historian Garry Barker, after 1960 the October Fair was held in Gatlinburg. Bullard wrote a book Crafts and Craftsmen of the Tennessee Mountains (1976) in which she featured a wide range of Tennessee artists and makers who contributed to the formation and flourishing of the studio craft movement.
Genre	Photograph
Contributing Institution	Archives of the Southern Highland Craft Guild
Conditions for use	Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only. All reproductions require acknowledgement of the contributing institution.
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University