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Her ancestors came to the Seagrove area in the 1760s because of the plentiful potting clay and kiln fuel. [1] As an adult, she married another person from a potter family, Walter Auman, and they created a business, "The Seagrove Pottery," in which they sold their work. Auman was also interested in the origins and traditions of pottery and spent ...
The North Carolina Pottery Center is a museum which highlights the Seagrove region's pottery traditions. Seagrove's pottery tradition dates back to the 18th century before the American Revolution. Many of the first Seagrove potters were Scots-Irish immigrants. They primarily produced functional, glazed earthenware. Due to the high quality of ...
A tiny town in the Piedmont is the pottery capital of the U.S. This weekend, thousands of people will attend The Celebration of Seagrove’s Pottery Festival and Studio Tour. While there are ...
Jugtown Pottery was founded in 1921 [2] by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, who in 1917 discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County. There, they found a local tradition of utilitarian pottery in orange, earthenware , and salt glazes .
There are craft demonstrations by glass, wood, [10] pottery, jewelry, metalwork and fabric artisans. [11] Work made during the festival is available for sale, right out of the pottery and glass kilns. Live music and food is also served. [12] Art of the State (tm) - Periodic craft showcase of North Carolina artists [3]
Nell Cole Graves (1908 – February 17, 1997) was a potter from Seagrove, North Carolina, and a winner of the 1996 North Carolina Heritage Award. [1]Graves grew up in Montgomery County, North Carolina, with her father, Jacon B. Cole, and her brother, Waymon Cole.
Whynot is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States, and is included in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. [2] Whynot is located on NC 705, also known as the "North Carolina Pottery Highway", [3] one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Seagrove and seven miles (11 km) west of Jugtown Pottery, a historic pottery listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]
Mark Hewitt (born 1955) is an English-born studio potter living in the small town of Pittsboro, North Carolina outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.In 2015 he received a United States Artist Fellowship, for contributions to the creative landscape and arts ecosystems of the country.