Biography of charmayne
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About Charmayne James
CHARMAYNE’S BEGINNING
Charmayne came by her horsemanship talents naturally. Her dad, who always had an eye for good horses, worked as a feedlot cowboy before becoming an owner and operator of cattle feeding, ranching and farming interests in Clayton, New Mexico. Her grandfather was a cowman and steer roper. Her great-grandfather was a Choctaw Indian Light Horseman. Her mother was a rodeo queen who also barrel raced and team roped. Her grandmother was a World War I nurse who returned home and broke horses on the family’s dude ranch.Charmayne grew up at her dad’s feedlot in Clayton. She took ballet and piano lessons, but her favorite activity was riding. Attending schools in Clayton, she was an honor roll student and excelled in art, basketball and track, but was always anxious to get home from school to ride.Charmayne learned to ride bareback on an old cowpony called Redbug, and was always trying to keep up with her older sisters who had begun runnin•
Charmayne Nesbitt
INDIVIDUAL - SCAD ID - #420
Contact
nesbu2@peoplepc.com
843-412-0567
Charleston County, SC
Discipline
- • Folklife/Traditional Arts
- • Crafts
Geographical Availability
- Upstate
- PeeDee/ Grand Strand
- Low Country
About
Artist Bio:
I was born on July 1, 1969 in Philadelphia, PA. I grew up in the Gullah community St. Helena Island SC, just outside of Beaufort, South Carolina. Taught by a 4th Generation basket weaver, I started making sweetgrass baskets in my late twenties. The tradition and technique of sweetgrass basket weaving has been passed down from one generation to the next, originating with the West African slaves who were brought to coastal South Carolina in the early 1700s. I am best known for my sweetgrass basket weaving using traditional methods combined with contemporary desi
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Charmayne James
American fat racer
Charmayne James (born June 23, 1970) is an American former professional rodeocowgirl who specialized in fat racing. In her career, She won 11 Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championships, the most in history. She won ten consecutive world championships from 1984 to 1993, and then a sista one in 2002. She qualified for the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) 19 times and also won seven NFR barrel racing average titles in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, and 2002. James retired her horse, Gills Bay Boy, nicknamed Scamper, whom she won the bulk of her titles with, in 1993 after winning her tenth world championship. James herself would retire from barrel racing in 2002 after winning her 11th world championship.
Scamper was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1996. James was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1992 and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017. The August 2017 inductio