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November Issue 2007
Cabarrus Arts Council in Concord, NC, Features Works from Seagrove Potteries & More
The Cabarrus Arts Council in Concord, NC, will present the exhibit, Pots and Pans, which will feature works from seven of Seagrove, NC's most prominent potteries, on view from Nov. 12 through Dec. 21, 2007. The Arts Council Galleries will also showcase pastels by Elsie Popkin and jewelry by JLK Jewelry, during the same time frame.
The pottery in the show will include pieces
in a variety of price ranges, making the show a great place to
shop for the serious collector and those looking for holiday gifts.
Donna Craven
Bruce Ghulson
Daniel
Johnston
Potteries included are: Bulldog Pottery featuring Bruce Ghulson and Samantha Henneke, who collaborate to make graceful forms and to develop their own unique glazes; Donna Craven Pottery, where Donna Craven, who has worked in the studios of several Seagrove potters, creates pots that are wood-fired and salt-glazed; and Daniel Johnston Pottery where Daniel Johnston, who apprenticed with Mark Hewitt, enjoys mining local clays and minerals for making and glazing pots.
Why Not Pottery
The show also features works from Ole Fish House Pottery where you'll find handmade functional and decorative pottery by Georgia and Byron Knight, including hand building and wheel-thrown clay and surfaces altered or decorated using techniques such as nature impressions; Phil Morgan Pottery where shapes and forms used accentuate an ancient and rare porcelain glazing technique form the Chung Dynasty. Phil Morgan has been featured in national publications and on ABC's Good Morning America; Whynot Pottery where Mark and Meredith Heywood's work includes large custom lamps and vases with shapes designed to either catch the glazing or to channel the flow of the molten glaze during the firing; and finally Dirtworks Pottery, where Kannapolis, NC, native Dan Triece is part of Dirtworks, which produces an assortment of functional pots in several colors and glaze combinations, and is noted for copper luster Raku art forms. Triece will present a free gallery talk on Nov. 8, at 7pm.
The late Elsie Popkin was the first artist-in-residence at the Reynolda House Museum in Winston-Salem, NC. Her pastel paintings are in many public and private collections. Sales of her work will benefit the Elsie Dinsmore Popkin Visual Artists Fellowship, awarded annually to a visual artist in Forysth County.
Jennie Lorette Keatts' JLK Jewelry turns mud into gemstones and sets them in sterling silver. In combining the Jugtown Pottery glazes, Keatts has found that she can recreate some of the randomness found in nature in her beautiful stones and gems.
Also on view at the Arts Council Galleries through Dec. 8, 2007, are the exhibits, Pottery Watercolors, featuring works by Carlos Herrera and the Cabarrus Art Guild's Fall Show.
For more info check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call 704/920-2787 or visit (www.cabarrusartscouncil.org).
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