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February Issue
2011
North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove,
NC, Features Exhibit of NC Made Teapots & Tea Cups
The North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove,
NC, will present the exhibit, Tea Time: Series I, featuring
teapots and tea cups made by seventy NC artists, on view from
Feb. 25 through Apr. 30, 2011.
The NC Pottery Center, partnering with The Imperial Centre for
the Arts and Sciences; Rocky Mount, NC; Green Hill Center for
NC Arts, Greensboro, NC; Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, NC; Cedar
Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, NC; and NC Crafts Gallery, Carrboro,
NC; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, in the selection of
the works offered in this exhibition.
This exhibition features functional North Carolina teapots and
tea cups, handmade by over 70 potters from across North Carolina
including: Stanley Mace Anderson, Jen Birline, Cynthia Bringle,
John Britt, Chad Brown, Benjamin Burns, Bonnie Burns, Patti Connor-Greene,
Adrienne Dellinger, Claudia Dunaway, Debbie Englund, Susan Farrar
Parrish, Susan Feagin, Dottie Fennell, Susan Filley, Becca Floyd,
John Garland, Amy Gelber, Matt Gibson, Deborah Harris, Samantha
Henneke, Bruce Gholson, Mark Hewitt, Mark Heywood, Meredith Heywood,
Matt Jones, Robin Bryant Kirby, Michael Kline, Bruce Latham, Janice
Latham, Suze Lindsay, Andrew Linton, Molly Lithgo, Laurey-Faye
Long, Chris Luther, Debb McDaniel, John Mellage, Alexa Modderno,
Richard Montgomery, Margie Nancy, Kelly O'Briant, Lara O'Keefe,
Julie Olson, Sandra O'Quinn, Glenn O'Quinn, Ben Owen, Marsha Owen,
Pam Owens, Marilyn Palsha, Mary Paul, Doris Petersham, Ronan
Kyle Peterson, Jeff Potts, Linda Potts, Hal Pugh, Eleanor Pugh,
Emily Reason, Sarah Wells Rolland, Michael Rutkowsky, Ken Sedberry,
Jenny Lou Sherburne, Hitomi Shibata, Gay Smith, Jennifer Stas,
Hiroshi Sueyoshi, Charles Tefft, Charles Tostoe, Kathy Triplett,
Brad Tucker, Tim Turner, Conrad Weiser, Betsy Vaden, and Jared
Zehmer.
The artist reception is Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, from 3:30-5:30pm.
The reception, featuring a High Tea, will provide visitors a chance
to sample teas and tea finger foods. Dewey's Bakery in Winston
Salem, NC is a sponsor of the event along with Todd and Holland
Tea Merchants, Forest Park, Illinois. We will also have flowering
teas to enjoy and taste. The reception is free and open to the
public.
The Center will also have the magazine Tea Time on sale
during the exhibit. The issue running concurrent with the exhibit
has an article on Teapots made in the Seagrove area of North Carolina.
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. This project was 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.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Center at 336/873-8430 or visit (www.ncpotterycenter.org).
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