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“Ceramic forms are the oldest record of human activity. I like being part of that conversation.”

- Beth Gore

I was especially drawn to clay during my Art Education training in college, and have been a fulltime potter for 28 years. I’ve had some kind of art project in the works since the day I was old enough to grip my first crayon. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in Art Education,
I taught elementary school Art and then went to work as a decorator at a large pottery. The owner asked me to help with the books due to my experience in various office jobs during college, and the business grew so fast I never got out of the office. Wanting to get back to the creative process, I moved to NC in 1987 to open Cady Clay Works with my husband. As a child I spent weekends and summers in dusty basements and garages, trailing my parents who were searching for rustic antiques long before they became fashionable. I grew up surrounded by simple objects such as sturdy, well-made, unpretentious furniture and Red Wing crocks and jugs. Everything in our house was meant to be used. I have never drawn a distinction between art and craft, as I think both should enhance daily life, and enrich our simplest daily tasks. I love working in clay because it can be such an unpretentious medium, one that appeals to our senses in a visual as well as a tactile way, and one that every person can relate to. Our plastic reproduction, cyber-sophisticated world needs hand-made objects such as coffee mugs or graceful pottery vases to link humans back to the natural world. After spending several years on the “fringes” of the creative process; teaching children, doing pottery bookwork and glazing pieces thrown by my husband, I am making time to hand build with clay, which I have always loved. I like the organic, asymmetrical, often serendipitous forms that start with a simple slab of clay. The cool feel of clay in one’s hands and the joy of manipulating it toward the idea in one’s mind is restful and therapeutic, and the idea that a creation of mine may be on earth long after I’m gone seems like a magical connection to the future.

Potter:Beth Gore

Address:3883 Busbee Rd, NC 27341

Phone:910-464-5661

Email:cadyclay@yahoo.com

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Cady Clay Works

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Exciting events happening every Saturday in July
Stepping into the Craft - Saturdays in Seagrove, July 2017
For a calendar of workshops, demonstrations and hands-on activities go to https://discoverseagrove.com/saturdays-in-seagrove/ There will be something special for everyone to enjoy. Can’t visit Seagrove in July? Pottery shops are open year round.

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Exciting events happening every Saturday in July
Stepping into the Craft - Saturdays in Seagrove, July 2017
For a calendar of workshops, demonstrations and hands-on activities go to discoverseagrove.com/saturdays-in-seagrove/ There will be something special for everyone to enjoy. Can’t visit Seagrove in July? Pottery shops are open year round. ...

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Laura Connerton ShawIf I have any Saturdays off-- I'm so down!!

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Stepping into the Craft - Saturdays in Seagrove
The Seagrove Potters have something exciting planned for each Saturday in July. Go behind the scenes and experience the craft. Participating potters will have demonstrations of wheel turning, decorating techniques raku firings and much more. If you can wait to get your hands into some clay, this is your chance to join in the fun of hands-on activities. Take a mini workshop, learn to hand-build or try throwing on the wheel. Go to https://discoverseagrove.com/saturdays-in-seagrove/ There will be something special for everyone to enjoy. Can’t visit Seagrove in July? Pottery shops are open year round.

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Stepping into the Craft - Saturdays in Seagrove
The Seagrove Potters have something exciting planned for each Saturday in July. Go behind the scenes and experience the craft. Participating potters will have demonstrations of wheel turning, decorating techniques raku firings and much more. If you can wait to get your hands into some clay, this is your chance to join in the fun of hands-on activities. Take a mini workshop, learn to hand-build or try throwing on the wheel. Go to discoverseagrove.com/saturdays-in-seagrove/ There will be something special for everyone to enjoy. Can’t visit Seagrove in July? Pottery shops are open year round. ...

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“Each piece challenges me to create continuity between thrown form and surface. I persevere.”
- Donna Craven - Donna Craven Pottery
Grounded in tradition; my work is a combination of strength, simplicity and gracefulness. I began working as a journeyman potter in Seagrove in 1996, and spent years working day & night with various artists and studios in the Seagrove community. I built my first groundhog kiln in the
spring of 2001 and held my first kiln opening later that year. My pots are wood-fired and salt-glazed. Wood firing gives the pots a rich surface that is a reflection of the earth based materials. The kiln is fired to cone 12 (2450 degrees F) in about sixteen hours with an overnight preheat. The oxygen content of the kiln is “reduced” early on in the process; when the correct temperature is achieved, salt is introduced, and the temperature regained before a crash cooling process. I’m known for my larger pieces that are thrown and coiled with a one-inch extended coil. My work is grounded in tradition, yet reflects my own influences that produce a combination of strength, simplicity and gracefulness that is undeniably unique. I frequently employ a taped decoration technique using manganese or a combination of crackle slips and ash glaze to achieve my effects. I’m always searching for the one pot that mirrors my idea of perfection, and frequently find that it is the rare, unexpected quality when pulled from the kiln that makes the work so beautiful and satisfying. It‘s a lot of hard, humbling work and I‘m honored to be part of a tradition that is thousands of years old. I am a 7th generation, direct descendant of Peter Craven from Randolph County.
For more info on Seagrove Potters like Donna Craven, visit ---> www.discoverseagrove.com

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“Each piece challenges me to create continuity between thrown form and surface. I persevere.”
- Donna Craven - Donna Craven Pottery
Grounded in tradition; my work is a combination of strength, simplicity and gracefulness. I began working as a journeyman potter in Seagrove in 1996, and spent years working day & night with various artists and studios in the Seagrove community. I built my first groundhog kiln in the
spring of 2001 and held my first kiln opening later that year. My pots are wood-fired and salt-glazed. Wood firing gives the pots a rich surface that is a reflection of the earth based materials. The kiln is fired to cone 12 (2450 degrees F) in about sixteen hours with an overnight preheat. The oxygen content of the kiln is “reduced” early on in the process; when the correct temperature is achieved, salt is introduced, and the temperature regained before a crash cooling process. I’m known for my larger pieces that are thrown and coiled with a one-inch extended coil. My work is grounded in tradition, yet reflects my own influences that produce a combination of strength, simplicity and gracefulness that is undeniably unique. I frequently employ a taped decoration technique using manganese or a combination of crackle slips and ash glaze to achieve my effects. I’m always searching for the one pot that mirrors my idea of perfection, and frequently find that it is the rare, unexpected quality when pulled from the kiln that makes the work so beautiful and satisfying. It‘s a lot of hard, humbling work and I‘m honored to be part of a tradition that is thousands of years old. I am a 7th generation, direct descendant of Peter Craven from Randolph County.
For more info on Seagrove Potters like Donna Craven, visit ---> www.discoverseagrove.com ...

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Pat HardinDonna Craven.... Very talented and very down to earth👍🙏👏❤️

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