North Carolina Pottery: Diversity & Tradition
February 6, 2010 - September 11, 2011
Mint Museum Randolph
Vase Arthur Ray Cole
H1983.190.1727
Gift of the Mint Museum Auxiliary and Daisy Wade Bridges from
the collection of Walter and Dorothy Auman
This exhibition of North Carolina pottery from the collection of The Mint Museum reflects one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in the state as well as one of its most vital. Both contemporary potters and those from the late 18th-20th centuries are represented. This spectrum of objects demonstrates the diversity of form and surface decoration and the regional traditions on which they are based.
Catawba Valley
Moravian Settlement
Mountains
Penland / Asheville
Seagrove and the Piedmont
Additional resources
- Online directory to North Carolina potters from the North Carolina Pottery Center
- Article by Mark Hewitt from Ceramic Review 151 1995 "Stuck in the Mud: The Folk Pottery of North Carolina."
- Previous exhibitions at The Mint Museum on or including North Carolina pottery
- Holdings on North Carolina pottery in The Mint Museum Library are extensive. A few major titles are listed below. For more, please search MARCO, our online catalog. Try searching under the names of potters, regions and various potteries.
- The Living Tradition: North Carolina Potters Speak. Conover, NC: Goosepen Studio and Press for the North Carolina Pottery Center, 2009.
- North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of The Mint Museums. edited by Barbara Perry. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2004.
- Hewitt, Mark. The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press for the North Carolina Museum of Art, 2005.
- Zug, Charles G. III. Turners & Burners: the Folk Potters of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1986.
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Created by Joyce Weaver, Librarian for The Mint Museum