I wanted to give my readers interested in pottery events taking place around the Carolinas and those looking for something interesting to do the weekend of Mar. 26 & 27, 2010, an update on the 13th annual Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival, which is a fundraising event for the Catawba County Historical Association in Hickory, NC, and the NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC. You can read my earlier posting at this link.
But, I’ll add this info for those who don’t want to go from link to link just to get you interested.
In addition to the 110 pottery and antique vendors from all over the Southeast, this year’s festival will feature a pottery exhibit prepared by Dr. Terry Zug, retired University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor and author of Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina.
The speaker this year is Stephen C. Compton, a native of Alamance County, NC. Compton holds an A.B. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M. Div. from Duke University, and D. Min. from Emory University and currently is the district superintendent for the Sanford District of The United Methodist Church. He formerly served as president of the board of directors for the North Carolina Pottery Center and was a founding member and first president of the North Carolina Pottery Collectors’ Guild (http://www.ncpotterycollectors.org/Home_Page.php).
For advance tickets to the Friday Night Preview Party (Mar. 26, 2010) ($40 per – required by Mar. 19, 2010) call the Catawba County Historical Association at 828/322-3943 or 828/324-7294.
If you go and end up talking with any of the potters from the Carolinas there – do me a favor and tell them you heard about the event at Carolina Arts Unleashed. Tell them Tom sent you. It’s called networking.
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