The program is voluntary and invites people who are enrolled in local drug rehabilitation programs like the Hickory Hill Recovery Center and Drug Court, which uses a non-punitive approach to recovery. We try to occupy them and mitigate their recidivism.” “What we do is we accept people into our studios when they’ve phased into a place where that’s useful to them when they’re ready to come out into the light of day. We don’t take people in who need to go through detox,” Naselroad said. “We don’t do the difficult work that the recovery centers do. The non-profit already had pottery, luthiery and blacksmithing studios, and in 2018, with a grant from ArtPlace America, started inviting people in recovery into their studios to work with mentors. Moore’s success inspired the creation of the “Culture of Recovery” arts program at The Appalachian Artisan Center. One addict’s recovery inspires arts program And while building instruments at night, during the day he earned a master’s degree in network security administration.Įight years later, Moore is still sober and works as the director of information technology at a residential treatment center where a large percentage of the employees are recovering addicts themselves. Since he began, Moore has made more than 70 instruments. Art releases something deep inside you don’t know you have.” “You don’t realize what you’re capable of until you’re able to produce something in an artistic form. Moore says he began to see the beauty in himself peering through those dark places and his confidence grew as he built a new skill. “To be able to do that and see beauty through dark places, is a gift he has and was able to show it to me.” “(Naselroad) would bring in what people would throw away and he could see through the rough grain and see that there was beautiful wood laying underneath,” said Moore. What started out as a one-year apprenticeship became a six-year journey that brought Moore back to life. “Music has always been a part of this community ever since pioneer days,” said Naselroad.
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Moore found himself in Naselroad’s wood shop nearly every day learning how to craft guitars from Appalachian native hardwoods in a town where the mountain dulcimer was first made in the late 1800s. How many more chances do you get in life?” Earl Moore is a recovering opioid addict who found peace and achieved sobriety after discovering his passsion for crafting instruments. “I was probably headed for death that time. In the end, Naselroad and his employer - the non-profit Appalachian Artisan Center, said yes. “There was some discussion about the wisdom of bringing people in addiction into our studios,” said Naselroad. At the time he was going through a 12-step program to fight his addictions. Moore admitted he had a felony on his record and thought that might be an obstacle to apprenticing under Naselroad. That’s what we do.’ And he said, ‘No, you don’t understand I need to come and do this.'” “He said, ‘I need to come to work in your studio - I need you to teach me how to make guitars’,” recalled Naselroad. The desperate young man made a point of showing up to see a band one night where the luthier, Doug Naselroad, was performing. Moore had been doing carpentry, building cabinets and had a love for guitars. The town has a quaint main street, but it has been ravaged by unemployment with the downturn of the coal industry and a brutal epidemic of opioid addiction. Moore was trying to get clean yet again in 2012 when he heard a master luthier - an expert stringed-instrument maker - was coming to his hometown of Hindman, a tiny hamlet nestled in the lush mountains of Eastern Kentucky. A triangle ukulele crafted by students at “Culture of Recovery.” Turning wood into music saves a man’s life Not until Moore says he found a 12-step program and a mentor who showed him the art of building stringed instruments - did he find the self-love and confidence that turned his life around for good. Moore went through five different drug treatment facilities but always ended up using again.
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