Carter Pottery: Yixing: BIG pots pt. 3. The biggest surprise of my Yixing trip was viewing their big pot tradition for the first time.
I have been using Yixing big pot clay for my own work for the past 18 months but I had yet to see one of the pots in person. They knocked my socks off to say the least. The tradition ranges from closed jars to "planter" shapes. Handmade pottery by vesselsandwares. Jeanette zeis ceramics. Louisville Stoneware.
Pottery Gallery: fine art ceramics studio pottery clay artists. Founded in 2002, MudFire Gallery combines the formal aesthetics of a white box exhibit space, with the casual atmosphere of our Front Room, which presents an assortment of accessible functional ceramics.
The Gallery mounts exhibitions highlighting the work of studio potters, clay artists and ceramic sculptors with a strong emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. Curated and juried shows highlight works in solo and themed group exhibitions. New Georgia Encyclopedia: Folk Pottery. Georgia is famed for its bountiful clay resources.
It is not the state's ubiquitous red clay that has been exploited commercially, but more localized clays such as kaolin and fuller's earth. Most important in the story of Georgia folk pottery is stoneware clay, concentrated as alluvial deposits along middle Georgia's fall line and scattered above in the Piedmont geologic province. Wares made of this fine-grained, relatively pure clay, which fires to a light gray or tan, were tough enough to withstand rough usage on the farm. Welcome to the Georgia Clay Council.
Pottery for Sale - Something Southern Pottery.