Seagrove NC

NC Potters to be Featured in a Nationwide TV Broadcast

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After our elation over the University of Michigan football victory over the Irish (don’t even mention that Carolina Panthers’ game) and frustrations over messed up Beatles’ CDs – it’s back to the business of bringing you news about the visual art community in the Carolinas. It seems that the pottery community in Seagrove, NC, including ... Read More

Those Seagrove Potters Are At It Again!

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I bet some of you thought this was going to be about a drive-by shooting on the streets of Seagrove, NC – one pottery gang taking out a few of their rivals from another pottery gang or about the authorities finding bones at the bottom of someone’s kiln. No such luck. It’s just another boring ... Read More

NC Pottery Center Offers Summer Fundraiser – June 20 2009

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The doors of the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, were kept open due to the efforts of many last year, but – and I hate to be the one to tell you this – the Center is not yet saved, and the cavalry in the form of the NC Arts Council, a.k.a. the ... Read More

Some Pottery News – Not From Seagrove, NC

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Just to show that I am not a one pottery subject blogger – here is something about pottery in the Carolinas (South Carolina) that is not about Seagrove, NC. Well, I’m not really sure – there might be some Seagrove pottery in this collection, but I don’t know. Anyway, this exhibit will show that important ... Read More

Pottery Events Coming Up in Seagrove, NC, in June 2009

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First off is the Cousins in Clay event on June 6 & 7, 2009, at Bulldog Pottery in Seagrove featuring works by Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke of Bulldog and invited guest and “clay cousin” Michael Kline from Bakersville, NC. This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet the artists and add to your pottery ... Read More

A Glorious Spring Day in Seagrove, NC

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It was April 18, 2009, and by 6am, Linda and I were in the car headed for Seagrove, NC, for the first day of the Celebration of Spring in Seagrovewhere over 40 potteries in the area would be greeting visitors who would be coming to see new works – many fresh from the potter’s kilns. ... Read More

Celebration of Seagrove Potters Exceeds All Expectations

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I was sent this update on the Celebration of Seagrove Potters festival. by Jennie Lorette Keatts After only five and half months of planning and execution, the Celebration of Seagrove Potters, in Seagrove, NC, went off without a hitch, exceeding attendance estimates and putting big smiles on the faces of the participating artists. Over 400 ... Read More

First Celebration of Seagrove Potters Festival a Success

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I did not get to attend this first time event in Seagrove, NC, although I wanted to. I did the next best thing, I kept in touch by reading the blogs of the various blogging potters who were getting ready for this event – and reports of how things were going – hours after they ... Read More