Clay exhibition at Black Mountain Center for the Arts #1

 Every holiday season the Center for the Arts features pottery work of students and teachers in it's gallery. It's open M-F 10-5 until the holidays, then during January also (I don't know the closing date.)

Here are some of the pieces I saw.

Amy McCarron Snow Pines #1 and #2

Suzoe Sweet, Christmas Gnomes

Pat Levi, Blue Bowl and Rooster

Cindy Shulman

Cindy Shulman, Earth Angel

Don Obentrader, Snow person with hat, and Tree

I'll add more photos tomorrow.

Today's quote:

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, 
apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
—Nisargadatta

Spruce Pine Potters Market 22 - Joy Tanner & Will Baker

 Joy Tanner & Will Baker

“I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.”

Betty White in her book, If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t)

Spruce Pine Potters Market 22 - Pam Brewer

 

I loved these totems of three big animals, not always sure what they were.

Pam Brewer

Today's quote:

Gratitude is universal spiritual wisdom, and it is sufficient.

TERRY PATTEN

Spruce Pine Potter's Market 22 - Cynthia Bringle

 Cinthia Bringle

Cynthia Bringle's display

Close up of mugs

Cynthia Bringle had a great display of her works!

Today's quote:

If we are to have true peace in the world, we must first find it within ourselves.

Spruce Pine Potters Market 22 - 4 more potters

 

Linda McFarling, and Shane Mickey

Lynne Hobaica & Rickie Barnett

Today's quote:

Betty White (who died at 99 years on 12.31.21)

“Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”

Spruce Pine Potters Market '22 - 3 more potters

 OK, I thought I got people's names with their pots. But these may be mixed up and I apologize to the artists.

Me and Terry Gess and Cathy at Terry's booth.

This cocky little ewer had to become a Christmas present for one of my family members.

Cathy also purchased some of Terry's bowls.

Spruce Pine Potters Market '22 - Artists 1 & 2

Our foursome arrived before noon on the second day of the pottery market, held in a wonderful old warehouse or textile manufacturing building with windows on all sides. Note, I only took photos of the pottery I thought was interesting.

1. Gertrude (Gay) Smith has wonderful designs. Here's her web site. gertrudegrahamsmith.com/

2. I had a nice talk with David Ross about his silhouettes and spray painted glaze designs, and some of them had brush-work as well. I loved the elephants, and my friend Judy likes giraffes.  David lives nearby and is featured in the Mica Gallery site HERE.

These are some of the best artists of Western North Carolina...at least in the mountains. Then there's Seagrove NC in the Piedmont.  But this was only a drive of 45 minutes from my home!

Today's quote:

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. 

-Max Eastman, journalist and poet (1883-1969)