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Catawba Valley. C.1875. Catawba Valley Pottery describes alkaline glazed stoneware made in the Catawba River Valley of Western North Carolina from the early 19th century, as well as certain contemporary pottery made in the region utilizing traditional methods and forms. The earliest Catawba Valley pottery was earthenware made by the Catawba ...
Georgia Harris (July 29, 1905 – January 30, 1997) was known for preserving traditional forms of Catawba pottery. A member of the Catawba Tribe in South Carolina, Harris was a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship for her work. Although ranging centuries, the earliest records of the Catawba pottery tradition that have been obtained ...
Reinhardt-Craig House, Kiln and Pottery Shop is a historic home, kiln, and pottery shop located near Vale, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The house, kiln and pottery shop, were built by Harvey Reinhardt between 1933 and 1936. The house is a one-story, rectangular frame building, two bays wide by three bays deep.
Bertha George Harris (June 29, 1913 – October 14, 2014) was an American Catawba tribal elder and master potter.She specialized in a specific type of pottery unique to the Catawba, which she crafted from river clay without the use of electricity or a potter's wheel. [2]
Jerry Dolyn Brown (November 9, 1942 – March 4, 2016) was an American folk artist and traditional stoneware pottery maker who lived and worked in Hamilton, Alabama.He was a 1992 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts [1] [2] and a 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. [3]
Later Woodland and Mississippian populations practiced pottery and agriculture and established more permanent settlements at Big Rock. European settlers traveled to the area on the Great Wagon Road starting in the 1740s and by the 1760s the native Catawba people were displaced to their current reservation in South Carolina .
Two years later the renovated building opened as the Arts & Science Center of Catawba Valley, providing a new permanent location for the Museum. [4] Today, it has been incorporated into the SALT Block , a cultural arts complex that houses the Catawba Science Center, Hickory Choral Society, Hickory Museum of Art, Patrick Beaver Library, United ...
Burlon Craig (1914-2002), potter in the style of Catawba Valley Pottery [8] (Lincoln County, NC) Menhaden Chanteymen, performers of worksongs [9] (Carteret County, NC)