With twenty years' experience in the fields of crafts and museums, Anna Fariello is currently an associate research professor at Western Carolina University, where she is building the Craft Revival digital collection and directing From the Hands of our Elders, a project to document twentieth-century Cherokee arts. She is a former research fellow at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., and former field researcher for the Smithsonian Folklife Center. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2000, she taught museology and conducted a folklife study in Latin America. She is co-author of the textbook Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft and was visual art editor for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. She is author of several book chapters, fifty articles and conference presentations and is curator of over forty exhibitions.