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Studio Stroll at The Village Potters
November Studio Stroll will take place Saturday & Sunday, November 9-10, from 10am-6pm. At The Village Potters, you’ll find at least one of us demonstrating some facet of our production process...
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Visitor’s Center Volunteer Appreciation Event at The Village Potters!
Some images from our event to say “thank you” to the many volunteers at Asheville’s Visitor’s Center at the Chamber for all they do to promote Asheville in every way, and in particular for all they do...
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Looking Back – Looking Ahead
Here at The Village Potters, having completed our second year together as a collective and now standing at the cusp of a new year, we reflect and look ahead. A wise writer once said, ‘See then that you...
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The Allure of Sculpture
By JUDI HARWOOD Our teaching center at The Village Potters is happy to announce the addition of Beginner Sculpture classes! As the resident potter who will be teaching these classes, I’d like to give...
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Gallery News
We’re doing a little pre-Spring cleaning and shaking things up a bit in our Galleries! Main Gallery & Feature Gallery We’ve freshened the look of our Main Gallery and completely renovated our...
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It’s time to take a pottery class in Sculpture, hand building or wheel
Call to register 828-253-2424
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Spring Blooms
While things are most definitely blossoming inside our studios, thanks mostly to VP Sarah Wells Rolland, the garden in front of the Gallery is constantly giving us new beauty to behold! Here’s a...
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We are a Martha Stewart American Made Award Finalist!
We are very pleased and proud to announce that we have been named as a Finalist in Martha Stewart’s American Made Awards in the Crafts category! American Made honors makers, small-business owners, and...
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From Our Hands to Your Home
The Village Potters have been busy this winter making pots, teaching classes and making plans to expand the Teaching Center with a mentoring program later this year. With years of experience at the...
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Inspiration and Challenges
What inspires you in your creative ventures? What gives you those ‘aha!’ moments that spur you to push your own boundaries? I’ve had a few interesting ‘Aha!’ moments as I’ve pursued sculpting in clay....
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Kazegama Update
VP Karen, welding the frame. It’s often said that great things come about because of a confluence of wonderful small details. When you look back at most major achievements, you can see clearly how so...
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Kazegama Update: Things are Shaking!
We are gearing up toward our much delayed and much anticipated Inaugural Kazegama Firing! We sent an update out late 2015 explaining our unforeseen setbacks but we are now moving forward again. George...
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Potters Abroad
We all love travel adventures, and recently Nancee Neel, a member of our Independent Study and Mentoring Program, had a wonderful adventure to Cuba! While on the pre-designed tours, Nancee managed to...
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‘Big Magic’
When was the last time you were enchanted? Wide-eyed and delighted by something you had created? Whether a bright, fresh meal or an intricately layered painting, creating is hard wired into who we are...
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Get a Grip.
Oh the handle…that small piece of clay that makes all the difference in the ever popular mug. The handle serves great function on a drinking vessel….to keep our sensitive hands from the heat and to...
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The Corner of 18 Wheelers and Lyman Street
A few months ago on a gorgeous Spring day a young woman hurriedly entered our gallery door. She quickly exclaimed, “Where are the buildings with the graffiti?” and ran out after hearing the short...
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Oh, Bertha!
by Dearing Davis, Red Clay Halo Pottery The Village Potters is unique and wonderful in that we have a variety of options when it comesto firing our pieces. We have seven electric kilns, a raku kiln, a...
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The Culture of Generosity
by Dearing Davis, The Village Potters & Red Clay Halo Pottery When you walk through the door at the Village Potters there is a sense that something is different. It is evident that our gallery...
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Digging Deeper: ‘Kazegama: the inaugural firing’
Kazegama Glow After hours, days, and months of work the Kazegama kiln has been completed! And she is quite a beauty. The inaugural firing of the Kazegama took place this past weekend and it was a...
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Digging Deeper: Obviously…. Obvara!
Last week a group of Village Potter Independent Study & Mentoring students gathered with Judi Harwood to fire pots in the raku Kiln and get to know some alternative firing techniques. We met in the...
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