GENE ARNOLD - Piedmont Region
Gene creatively developed pots with surface resembling the skin of an alligator. This is not a glaze effect, the outside surface of the clay is actually cracked. His pottery and face jugs are beautifully executed using wood ash glazes that are truly traditional in design.

JEFF ARNOLD - Lowcountry of South Carolina
Unique but functional forms are the signature of Jeff's pottery. His work involves the blending of geometric shapes with organic forms to create visual tension. The stoneware is hand formed or wheel thrown and then fired in a salt kiln.

EDGE BARNES - Piedmont Region
Decorative stoneware orbs and vessels burnished with a polished stone and fired using horsehair, Angora wool, feathers, seaweed and other natural materials to create unique patterns. A surprise mark, such as a leaf, feather, flower or four-leaf clover, is often on the bottom of his pieces.

DIANE BORDE- SUTHERLAND - Mountains of North Carolina
Diane’s pottery is made of red earthenware clay and majolica glazed to be both functional and decorative. Her one-of-a-kind pieces are handpainted with botanical imagery. Majolica is a old world glazing process. She believes if you love it, you will take care of it, so it will be handed down for generations.

CYNDI BRICKELL
Stoneware souveniers of Charleston houses and Churches.

CYNTHIA BRINGLE - Mountains of North Carolina
This renowned and dedicated potter is a mentor and teacher to many of the finest potters in the country. She considers painting very important, using fine liner brushes. She has a keen sense of line, design and pattern. Her personality comes through in the whimsy and fun of her pots.

LISA BRUNS - Lowcountry, South Carolina
Multifaceted artist who’s talent for working in 3-D has been translated into jewelry, mobiles and clay sculptures. She continues to study and develop her wide scope of creativity. Her clay sculptures are large coil built figures and are all inspired by island life.

ED BRYAN - Piedmont of South Carolina
Functional high fired stoneware that features unique designs and glazes that are based on ancient Asian forms and designs.

PEBBLES BRYSON - Piedmont of North Carolina
Hand thrown functional pottery that can be used everyday. The potter sends her wish on the bottom of every pot. High-fired stoneware that should be used everyday.

BENJAMINE BURNS - Piedmont of North Carolina
Reduction fired copper reds and exoctic glazes. Contemporary design with oriental influences.

SHERRY CALDWELL-HOHL AND BILL HOHL - Mountains of North Carolina
Each piece of pottery and sculpture created by the Caldwell-Hohl partnership is the direct result of a dream, a vision and a true collaboration of spirit and imagination. It is their hope that you will be touched by their designs and selection of materials and colors.

CHRIS CAMPBELL - Piedmont Region
Graceful porcelain that is satin smooth, lightweight and radiantly translucent. The technique she uses is the colored clay murrini process.

CAROLYN CARROLL - Piedmont of North Carolina
Fine white porcelain thrown and slabbed to beautiful shapes. Delicate slip patterns and glaze decorations adorn the smooth surfaces.

MARTY CELUM - Lowcountry of South Carolina
Amazing bigger than life, life-like vegetables are sought after in the pottery world. She also uses Lowcountry images of flowers and Charleston’s wrought iron gates to decorate her dancing vases and pots.

CAROLINE CERCONE - Lowcountry of South Carolina
Caroline makes functional pottery that is warm and comfortable for daily use. She is influenced by the rich history of folk traditions. Her pottery is thrown on a hand built treadle wheel using stoneware clay and then gas reduction fired. She is drawn to shino glaze for its warm color and rich buttery texture flowing over a cup or bowl and accentuated with simple and beautiful brushwork.

GINGER CORBETT - Johns Island, Lowcountry of SC
Soulful and beautiful Earthenware sculptures of Lowcountry Gullah life as set in the thirties and forties. She uses a variety of glaze mediums to create the colors and tones of the individuals she depicts.

JAMES CORNELL – Mountains of SC
He is drawn to shino, tomoku, and green glazes for its warm color and rich depth of hues.

DOUG DACEY - Mountains of North Carolina
A combination of throwing and handbuillding to produce large functional vessels that are then sprayed with glazes and oxides, sanded, and fired to produce a variegate surface. His award winning presentation pottery exhibits the influences of nature and palms.

NANCY DARRELL - Mountains of North Carolina
Wheel thrown porcelain, carved and high-fired to translucency. The resulting product can be very thin but strong and durable. Her beautiful lamps have hand milled copper details.

JOHN S. DAVIS – Lowcountry of SC
He uses beautiful rich celadon glazes to decorate his stoneware pots and vases.

WILMA AND MICHAEL DEDDISH – Lowcountry of SC
This Charleston couple builds beautiful bowls that depict the life of the loggerhead turtle that frequent the beaches of coastal Carolina.

CATHERINE & TRACY DOTSON - Mountains of North Carolina
Useful, functional shapes of pottery are glazed with beautiful colors using a wax relief technique. The beautiful Blue glaze and Shino red are unusual and highly sought after.

STEVE FERRELL – Midlands of SC
Steve works to make reproductions of the early Edgefield pottery.

STEVEN FORBES-DE SOULE - Mountains of North Carolina
Beautiful raku forms from nature and his imagination. The work features unique and exclusive stained glass, silver and copper glazes applied in a spontaneous and serendipitous manner.

BONNIE FRAZIER - Piedmont of North Carolina
Inspired by nature, distinctive hand decorated one of a kind pieces. Realistic portraits of nature and funky, fun interpretations.

DOVER POTTERY - Piedmont of North Carolina
Colored crystalline vases and bowls; freehand decorated majolica on functional forms.

TIM GARVIN
Porcelain and silver jewelry

TERRY GESS - Mountains of North Carolina
His pottery is salt-fired white stoneware. Salt firing produces a wide range of durable surfaces from shiny to matte. His particular kiln provides a variety of beautiful surfaces and colors. It has the element of surprise and unpredictability. Forms are standardized, but you can expect a lively variety of surfaces, decorative motifs and earth tone colors.

HANK GOODMAN - Mountains of North Carolina
Stoneware with distinctive glazes and graceful forms in large scale bottles, platters, and vases. Hints of historical Oriental and Western vessels show up in each vase and bottle, teapot and sculpture. An appreciation for the lush landscape of the North Carolina Mountains is expressed in the natural tones of the ash glazes.

GERTRUDE GRAHAM SMITH - Mountains of North Carolina
Gay’s porcelain ware is fired in a soda kiln to create strong, innovative pots and vessels for function and aesthetic pleasure. Fluting and faceting techniques are used to create a whimsical flow to the pottery.

SUSAN GREGORY – Lowcountry of SC
This artist’s emphasis is on contemporary ware for entertaining.

SYLVIA HARRISON - Piedmont Region
Inspired and influenced by the beautiful countryside, her flower garden and her Latvian heritage. It seemed natural to go from the dirt of her garden to the clay of the earth. The beautiful casseroles and dishes are a joy to use daily in the kitchen.

BOB HASSELLE – Piedmont of SC
His pottery is functional stoneware with beautiful colorful glazes.

HAVNER FAMILY – Piedmont
The family forms and glazes Holiday figures. A real Collector’s item.

KATHY HAWKINS – Lowcountry of SC
Her hand built or thrown pots reflect the soft colors of nature.

YVONNE HEGNEY - Mountains of North Carolina
Her art is represented in galleries and is placed in collections throughout the world. Classic forms of hand-built, highly textured, pit fired raku clay married with found objects of metal, wood and stone.

PHYLLIS HUNT - Piedmont of North Carolina
Decorative and functional stoneware with cutouts and relief to create unique designs. A wide variety of colors and motifs.

NICHOLAS JOERLING - Mountains of North Carolina
Unique stoneware functional pots that are whimsical and almost cartoon-like, decorated with opaque glazes. His pottery is made of high fired stoneware. It is intended for daily use giving pleasure to the user.

MARIANNE JONES
Stoneware, gem stone and sterling silver jewelry.

KELLY McCULLOUGH - Mountains of North Carolina
Wheel thrown and hand built porcelain with hand carved dragonflies or palm trees applied to the surface of the pot. Her beautiful pastel glazes are fun to use everyday.

SANDRA O’QUINN AND GLEN MCNEILL - Piedmont of North Carolina
Their beautiful functional stoneware, is salt glazed with multicolored glazes. The pottery is high-fired reduction in a gas kiln and glazes are made by the potters.

BECKY MELANCON – Lowcountry of SC
Inspired by the local lowcountry landscape, she crafts high fired porcelain and stoneware pendants.

PHIL MORGAN - Piedmont of North Carolina
Crystalline glazed porcelain in which each piece is a unique and unusual work of art. Crystalline glazes are produced through specific glaze formulation and carefully controlled firing procedures. His pottery is in private and public collections throughout the world.

CHRIS MOSES - Mountains of NC
Chris makes whimsical raku animal whistles.

MARY LOU MURPHY – Lowcountry of SC
Local artist that makes beautiful beads out of Polymer clay.

VICKI OGDEN - Lowcountry, SC
Local young, talented artist featuring fun, earthenware dolphins. Great souvenirs of Kiawah and Seabrook Island.

TERRY AND ESI OSTOVAR – Mountains
Together they have been creating original animal and marine designs for over 30 years.

BEN OWEN III – Seagrove, NC
Ben’s pottery reflects a foundation of traditional designs as well as oriental translations.

ORIGINAL OWENS POTTERY, BOYD OWENS - Piedmont of North Carolina
Earthenware red, a bright cardinal red, used on decorative pieces is the signature color created in 1945 and continues today. The red pottery is decorative only, not for food use. The Owens family pottery was first established in 1895.

JANE PEISER - Mountains of North Carolina
Intricately hand-built salt fired colored porcelain. The controlled combining of colored clay is known as millefiori. Jane Peiser is the leading artist in this technique.

MARK PETERS - Mountains of North Carolina
Wood fired pottery that shows the movement of the clay, the hand of the potter and the marks from the flame. He makes pots that have a natural ease to them, such as, the flow of a river or a moss covered boulder.

LAURIE PROPHATER – Lowcountry of SC
She has immersed herself in the myriad of surfaces that polymer clay can emulate. Her jewelry designs are balance and well organized.

MARYANN PURSER - Piedmont of North Carolina
Specializing in reduction-fired stoneware and porcelain work, her unique approach to pottery merges natural materials with her spiritualvision and strength, creating distinctive pieces with a functional sensuality and earthly purpose. Each piece she creates reaffirms the beauty of the earth and the power of spirit.

JOHN RANSMEIER – Mountains of NC
John’s work is contemporary but reflects the colors of nature.

JOAN RASMUSSEN
Fun and whimsical clay dolls.

GORDON RAY
Colorful hand painted pottery.

PAUL RAY
Deep red and ash glaze pottery.

DUKE READY
Beautiful tiles of Charleston scenes and houses.

DAVID ROSS - Mountains of North Carolina
High-fired stoneware that is functional and decorative. He throws, slabs, presses and alters his constructions. His handglazed impressionistic images are of birds, flowers, deer and fish. He is well known as the “Platter man” in the pottery world.

MICHAEL RUTKOWSKY - Mountains of North Carolina
Hand made reduction fired stoneware, combining and layering surfaces of raw clay, clay slips, and glossy celadons through trailing, brushing and combing techniques to produce functional pots with contemporary appeal.

KRISTEN SCHOONOVER
G reen and cream colored stoneware pottery.

KEN SEDBERRY - Mountains of North Carolina
Colorful wood fired stoneware and porcelain with sea and forest imagery. Process, materials and function are the focus of his work. He enjoys throwing coarse clay and firing with wood. Ken’s goal has been to achieve color in wood firing – that would usually combine in conventional wood firing.

CAROLE SETTLE - Lowcountry of South Carolina
A collection of fanciful functional porcelain and stoneware pottery. Glazes reflect the colors of the ocean and marsh and are layered to achieve effects that are unique in texture and sensuality.

LOIS SHARPE - Piedmont Region
White porcelain sea vessels with a rare barnacle-like texture; the clay is altered by pulling, stretching, twisting and sculpted. The fire gives life to the glazes. The unique crater glaze results from a combination of chemicals reacting to the intense heat of a gas kiln. The fire gives life to the glaze, creating a rare, barnacle like texture.

RON SLAGLE - Mountains of North Carolina
Since 1971, Ron has developed a unique style of work, that is an accumulation of his various interests in techniques, peoples and cultures to express a view. Figurative, patterned and painterly images adorn the work. Expressions of gentle gestures, earth tones lit by fire and shapes that are familiar, but show a love for construction and alteration.

BARRY & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY - Piedmont of North Carolina
Unique face jugs and hand carved pottery. All pottery is done by parents and three teenagers carrying on a family tradition. The pottery carries designs that remind you of our beautiful Islands; trees, horses and birds.

CHARLES AND ZAN SMITH
Wonderful lifesize Frogs made of Copper, brass and stainless steel.

BILL STEWART – Piedmont of NC
He creates a spectrum of work that includes both functional and decorative pieces.

MARILYN STOVER - Piedmont Region
Hand built clay forms including coiled clay baskets, urns, large sculpted vessels and platters with natural accents of seasoned cedar, grapevines, bamboo and kiwi vines to create stoneware with an Asian feel.

FRED AND JEAN TEAGUE – Piedmont
Beautiful hand thrown high fired pottery tat can be used for daily use.

ANNIE VAN EVERY - Lowcountry of South Carolina
Her work is greatly influenced by the places she has lived; and by extensive travel in Europe, Africa and the Americas. For other inspiration, she looks to art and cultural history. From all these experiences, her work should be known as “Annie Ethnic”.

JOHN VASQUEZ - Mountains of North Carolina
Salt and soda fired stoneware. Pots are for functional use but beautiful for display. Face pots are works that are inspired by the early Carolina potters.

BETSEY WALL CARTER – Lowcountry of SC
In her work, she explores and exploits the strength, fluidity, and whiteness of porcelain.

JANN V. WELCH - Mountains of North Carolina
Works in clay include sculpture and raku pieces, providing a surface for her passion for form and color

ANN N. WHITE – Coastal South Carolina
Ann works with red earthenware clay and combines hand built shapes and colorful majolica glazes..

TERI WHITNER – Lowcountry of SC
Teri is a local fishing guide and her love for life and the natural world comes through in her one of kind hand crafted pieces.

JOE WINTER
Large vessels with beautiful deep green glazes.