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North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, Receives Grant from NC Arts council

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

The North Carolina Pottery Center in Randolph County has been awarded $20,412 from the North Carolina Arts Council for State Arts Resources, and $8,000 for the Traditional Arts Program in the Schools held each year in the Center’s educational building for fifth grade students from the Seagrove Elementary School in Seagrove, NC.

Board president, Linda Carnes-McNaughton said “State funds allow Randolph County to provide quality arts programming for students and adults, while also sustaining our local economy.”

Last year, the North Carolina Pottery Center provided programming for more than 11,000 visitors, including students. Highlights of our programming is the Traditional Arts Program In Schools held each year at the Center’s education building in partnership with the Seagrove Elementary School. The two ten-week workshops are conducted by local fifth-generation potter Sid Luck. Educational programs are also provided by the Center at the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival held in Hickory, NC, each March by well-known pottery historian, Dr. Charles “Terry” Zug of Chapel Hill, NC, and at the local Seagrove Celebration of Seagrove Potters held each November which provides exhibits and educational information to pottery attendees.

“The support of our grants program by the General assembly during these economically challenging times demonstrates the role the arts play in our economy and our quality of life,” said Mary B. Regan, executive director of the NC Arts Council. “Nonprofit arts organizations employ workers, stimulate commerce, generate tax revenues and help communities retain their vibrancy.”

More than 8.7 million people participated in NC Arts Council-funded projects last year in schools, senior centers, museums, concert halls and community centers. Nearly 2.9 million of these were children and youth.

The NC Arts Council awards grant money each year to provide diverse arts experiences for citizens to all 100 counties of NC. In fiscal year 2011-2012, the Arts Council is expected to distribute $6.4 million in state and federal grant funds to arts organizations, schools and other nonprofit organizations that sponsor arts programs.

The NC Arts Council is a division of the NC Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency with the mission to enrich lives and communities and the vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build North Carolina’s social, cultural and economic future. Information on Cultural Resources is available at (www.ncculture.com).

The North Carolina Pottery Center offers educational opportunities to statewide schools and individuals, changing historical and contemporary exhibitions, demonstrations, and information about statewide potters. The NCPC is a private nonprofit entity, funded primarily through memberships, grants, admissions, and appropriations.

The Center is open, Tuesdays – Saturdays 10am to 4pm, admission (excluding free special events): $2 – adults, $1 – students 9th through 12th grades, free – children through 8th grade, and free – NCPC members.  Handicap accessible. Groups and tours welcomed.

For further information and details call 336/873-8430, e-mail to (info@ncpotterycenter.org) or visit (www.ncpotterycenter.org).

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NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, is Awarded $32,497 from the NC Arts Council

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Here’s the press release we received at Carolina Arts:

Seagrove, NC – The NC Pottery Center (NCPC) in Randolph County has been awarded $32,497 from the NC Arts Council for State Arts Resources and the Traditional Arts Programs in Schools (TAPS).

The funds will be used to support several major exhibitions curated by guest artists during the grant cycle, and the Traditional Arts Programs in the local elementary school.

Linda Carnes-McNaughton, president of the NCPC board of directors said, “State funds allow Randolph County to provide quality arts programming for students and adults, while sustaining our local economy.  Last year, the NC Pottery Center provided programming for more than 11,500 citizens, including adults, youth, and children from all over North Carolina as many were day-travelers to the area. Visitors from all 50 states were represented, and visitors came from 27 foreign countries”.

A highlight of our programming is the Traditional Arts Programs in the local Seagrove Elementary School (TAPS), for fifth grade students. The two sessions taught by fifth generation potter Sid Luck of Luck’s Ware, are scheduled for fall 2010 and spring 2011. The ten-week pottery program is so popular with students, it requires registration and a random drawing for participation.

“The support of our grants program by the General Assembly during these economically challenging times demonstrates the role the arts play in our economy and our quality of life,” said Mary B. Regan, executive director of the NC Arts Council.  “Nonprofit arts organizations employ workers, stimulate commerce, generate tax revenues and help communities retain their vibrancy.”

More than 13.6 million people participated in NC Arts Council-funded projects last year in schools, senior centers, concert halls and community centers. Nearly 4.3 million of these were children and youth.

The NC Arts Council awards grant money each year to provide diverse arts experiences for citizens in all 100 counties of North Carolina. In fiscal year 2010-11, the Arts Council is expected to distribute $7,4 million in state and federal grant funds to arts organizations, schools and other nonprofit organizations that sponsor arts programs.

Exhibitions at the NC Pottery Center are made possible through the generosity of our membership, the Mary and Elliott Wood Foundation and the Goodnight Educational Foundation. These projects are supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The mission of the North Carolina Pottery Center is to promote public awareness of and appreciation for the history, heritage, and ongoing tradition of pottery making in North Carolina.

The current exhibit is, Pottery from the Coastal Carolina Clay Guild, on view through Nov. 13, 2010. The Coastal Carolina Clay Guild was founded in 2007 by a group of Wilmington, NC, potters with the purpose of sharing ideas and promoting the art and craft of pottery in our community. The Guild has grown to 100 members who reside in the eastern regions of North and South Carolina and are a diverse group consisting of full time, part time, and student potters.

The Center is located at 233 East Avenue in Seagrove, NC. Hours of operation are Tue. – Sat., 10am – 4pm.

For more information, please call 336/873-8430 or go to (www.ncpotterycenter.org).

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Another Pottery Exhibit Not In Seagrove, At Cone 10 Studios In Charleston, SC

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

In what is beginning to look like a continuing series – the “Pottery Exhibits Not in Seagrove, NC, Series”, we have an exhibit in Charleston, SC, called Mentor: Honoring the Historical Relationship Between Master and Apprentice, featuring the works of nine mentors and their students. Unfortunately, this exhibit is only up through June 7, 2009. I should have gotten to this show long before I did, but the good thing is – Cone 10 Studios features the works of the nine artists, who are playing the role of student for this exhibit, on a regular basis. When you do a monthly paper, there is not much time in-between one issue and the next.

I read in some material at the gallery that, “Mentor first appears in Greek mythology as the guardian of Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, during the Trojan War. Athena, Odysseus’ wife, later disguises herself as Mentor to advise and guide Telemachus on how to proceed in life. Thus, began the pairing of an experienced counselor and trusted friend with an unseasoned novice.”

The nine combinations of mentor/student are: Joan Byrd/Susan Gregory; Susan Filley/Pana Wilder; McKenzie Smith/Caroline Cercone; Nina Liu/Arthur McDonald; Robert Westervelt/Betsey Carter; Michael Welliver/Anne John; Juanita May/Chip Burr; Setsuya Kotani/Fiorenzo Berardozzi; and the super mentor/student team – Sid Luck/Jason Luck – father/son.

And, guess what? Sid Luck is from Seagrove, NC. I can’t make this stuff up folks.

The exhibit was co-curated by Fiorenzo Berardozzi and Caroline Cercone.


Caroline Cercone

“The Master/Apprentice or the Mentor/Student relationship has spanned thousands of years, and is a cross-cultural affair,” said Fiorenzo Berardozzi. “These relationships have created a global exchange of philosophical ideas for the world of ceramics, and they are constantly evolving.”

“We wanted to recognize the significance of the mentor in both the continuity of Art History, and the artist’s personal history,” said Caroline Cercone. “Artists emerge and evolve out of cultural and individual circumstances. The link between the history of the larger art community and the individual artist is often the mentor.”


Arthur McDonald

The exhibit features 60 works by the nine mentor/student teams and the works run from traditional pottery objects like tea pots to contemporary wall sculptures made of mixed media. In some cases you might ask yourself if the student ever looked at what the mentor was doing, but imitation is not always the way this relationship develops. While with others you can see the relationship in style and technique. You might find yourself asking – how does a painter mentor a potter? You may even find a new meaning for the word mentor.

If you get a chance to see this show before it is over – that’s great, but if the timing is not on your side, you should visit the gallery and see the works of the nine student/artists, who may already be or will soon be mentors themselves – as the cycle continues.

P.S. When this gallery first opened with the name Cone 10 Studios, for the life of me I had to wonder from where that name came. Did it mean there were 10 artists working in some kind of collective – like bees working in a honeycomb or something, but now that I’ve been following several pottery blogs I’ve learned the the word Cone followed by a number means a certain degree of heat reached in firing pottery in a kiln. I’m still not sure if the number 10 is super hot, but the gallery’s name now makes more sense to me and perhaps to others who may have also wondered.

These blogs – they can be very educational if you keep up with them.

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