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McDowell studied art at Mount Aloysius College and took sculpture classes at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a potter, he is mostly self taught. As a potter, he is mostly self taught. While he was in the Army stationed at Ansbach, Germany in the 1960s, he had a part time job at the base craft shop that had a kick-wheel pottery wheel.
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.
Founded in 1966, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) is an organization in the United States serving the interests of ceramics as an art form and in creative education. Most major American ceramic artists since the 1970s, such as Frances Senska , Paul Soldner , Peter Voulkos , and Rudy Autio have been among its members.
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.
Part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, collection includes Asian art, works on paper (drawings, prints, and photographs), European masterworks, 20th-century and contemporary art, African art and North Carolina pottery A.D. Gallery: Pembroke: Robeson: Piedmont: Art: Part of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke [1]
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.
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.
After spending eighteen months traveling between Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, visiting local schools along the way, Olive Dame Campbell and her colleague Marguerite Butler, began forming the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925 in Brasstown, North Carolina, along the Cherokee County and Clay line. [9]