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He is known for his functional pottery and especially for his large scale wood-fired, salt-glazed ceramic pots, known as "monster pots." His work is influenced by Asian pottery, African pottery, North Carolina pottery, and especially the English pottery of Bernard Leach. Hewitt was taught by Leach's first student, Michael Cardew.
Mint Museum Randolph resides in a federal style building that once housed the Charlotte Mint.Opening in 1936, it was the first art museum in North Carolina, USA. [2] The permanent collections include American Art, Ancient American Art, American and European ceramics, American and European Decorative Art, North Carolina Pottery, historic costume and fashionable dress and accessories, African ...
The Museum of American Pottery is located in Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor, North Carolina, [1] [2] in a climate controlled room. The museum came into existence after an exhibit called "Old Pots" premièred at Cedar Creek Gallery in the early 1970s. [3] The collection has since grown to over 400 pieces.
A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. [1] Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture ...
Michael Sherrill (born October 27, 1954) is an American ceramist and sculptor. Primarily self-taught, Sherrill's early work in the 1970s and 1980s focused on creating functional pieces in clay before turning to sculptural artwork in porcelain and metal in the 1990s.
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She also took a job running the ceramics studio at the Jamestown Settlement where she began to study and recreate pottery from the archaeological collections at the historic site. [3] Erickson was the artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England from July to September 2012. [4]
Stair studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art from 1974 to 1978, and at the Royal College of Art from 1978 to 1981. He completed a PhD in Critical Writing on English Studio Pottery: 1910–1940 at the Royal College of Art in 2002. He was a trustee of the Crafts Council [5] and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.