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Burlon B. Craig (ca. 1914-2002) was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina and learned to make pottery as a teenager. When Craig returned from service in the Navy following World War II, he purchased the Reinhardt farm and pottery complex in Vale, North Carolina. The pottery operation included a groundhog kiln and fully equipped shop.
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White clay is a favorite to work with but many colors are used. A potter's wheel is not used. The bottom of the pot is molded and the upper part is created by the coil method. When the pot is dry, it is rubbed with a stone or other hard object to make it shine. This can take days. Pots are fired on the open ground using wood and manure for fuel.
Many pots and fragments thereof of Pueblo IV period pottery has been found at Pottery Mound a former village along the banks of the Rio Puerco that was inhabited from AD 1350 and 1500. Pottery mound polychrome ware was often slipped with a different color on the inside of the vessel than on the exterior. [29]
Potts Plantation is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Cornelius, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 12 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in rural Mecklenburg County.
Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on January 22, 1937, and raised in Lexington, North Carolina, [1] [5] Timberlake always enjoyed painting, although he didn't begin his professional career until 1970, when he was 33 years old. [6] He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Relations in 1959 from the University of North Carolina. He ...
CAM is a collaboration of the College of Design at North Carolina State University and a private 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1983 as the City Museum of Contemporary Art. Since 2011, CAM Raleigh has been housed in a 1910 warehouse in downtown Raleigh providing 20,000 square feet of space.
Painted stones, featuring one with a sailboat on the ocean and blue sky. The Kindness Rocks Project is a viral trend where people, commonly children, paint pebbles or cobbles and leave them for others to find and collect. Photos of the painted rocks and hints of where to find them are commonly shared on Facebook groups. [1]