Stouten, Molly

An artist, art educator, and musician, Molly Stouten was born in Buffalo, N.Y. She received a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen in 1975, teaching certification from Nazareth College of Rochester, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. Since 1985, Stouten has taught art to all grade levels in New Hampshire, Vermont, and North Carolina. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she began playing traditional Appalachian string band music in 1972 and was a founding member of the Thompkins County Horse Flies string band. She has also been a member of the Swamp Root string band of Rochester, N.Y., and the Hushpuppies in North Carolina. In 1992, Stouten traveled to the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky for musical research. She relocated to Greensboro, N.C., in 1997. She teaches art at the Canterbury School, Wake Forest University, and Guilford College.

From the guide to the Molly Stouten Collection (#20260), 1991-1995, (Southern Folklife Collection)

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