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Title	Marian Heard and Virginia King
Theme	Performing Identity
Subtheme	Folk Culture
Subject-LCSH	Artisans Arts and crafts movement Handicraft Women
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee
Description	Black and white photograph of two dark-haired women, one seated at a table, the other wearing blue jeans and a white blouse, standing to her left and holding a plaque, plate or tray for her to see. Behind them is a patterned curtain.
Historical Note	The seated woman in this photograph is Marian Heard, professor of crafts and design at the University of Tennessee. Heard (1908-2003) was instrumental in the success of the summer craft programs that she helped initiate at the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg in 1945. When Sevier County began to fund public education in the 1940s, the members of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, a women's organization that had founded the school to educate local children in 1912, turned to the University of Tennessee for assistance in establishing a summer craft program at the college level. While they would continue to share support for the public Pi Beta Phi Elementary School next door, this new direction for the residential campus met immediate success and led the way to a new direction for the school. Marian Heard, a craft artist herself, was also involved in the first Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild Fair, which was held on Pi Beta Phi grounds in 1948. In 1964, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity voted to found a year-round arts and crafts center with the name Arrowmont and invited Heard to become its first director.
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