Join us on Saturday, Oct 22, from 1:00-3:00pm for a reception for our current temporary exhibit “For Promotion and Presentation.” L.A. Rhyne, who guest curated the exhibit, will be giving a short talk about the show starting at 2:30 pm.

Also, from 1:00-3:00pm will be the reception for our “Fall Pottery Show.”

The dual reception and talk are free and open to the public.

Both the “For Promotion & Presentation” exhibit and our “Fall Pottery Show” run from September 1 – December 17, 2022.

About the “For Promotion & Presentation” Exhibit:

In addition to fulfilling basic utilitarian needs, some older pottery in North Carolina was used for either promotional or presentation purposes. Both types are popular with promotional wares being sought by advertising and bottle collectors as well as pottery collectors.

Promotional wares include merchant jugs and jars made for North Carolina businesses. Interestingly, most of these promotional pieces were made by pottery industries outside of North Carolina. Likely reasons for that are the larger out-of-state potteries could furnish more wares and many of those potteries used Bristol glaze, which was not favored in NC, on which blue or black stenciling was easy to read. This exhibit features only jugs and jars promoting NC businesses and towns.

Presentation wares typically only have the name of the person for whom the piece was made and possibly the name of a town or a date, although some may also have the potter’s mark as well.
Although made relatively infrequently, presentation wares were produced by potters across the state from the Piedmont to the Catawba Valley and Western NC. This exhibit features only those presentation wares made in North Carolina.

We hope you’ll come check out the exhibit and see what some early promotion and presentation pottery looked like in NC.

About our “Fall Pottery Show”:

Come on up, down, or over to the North Carolina Pottery Center and check out our Fall Pottery Show showcasing some of our state’s great young potters! Cat Viera Akerman (Seagrove), Christina Bendo (Waynesville), Eamon Rogers (Seagrove), Gaines Bailey (Durham), Hannah Cupp (Seagrove), Stillman Browning-Howe (Pittsboro), Sydney Payne Williams (Candor), and Will Baskin (Winston-Salem).

Every single piece in our fall pottery show is available for purchase and may be taken home immediately. 70% of the proceeds of each piece go directly to the artist, and 30% go towards supporting the center’s nonprofit mission of Sharing North Carolina’s Clay Stories, Past and Present.

Get your holiday shopping started early!

The center is located at 233 East Avenue, Seagrove, NC 27341.