Promoting an
Awareness of North Carolina's Pottery heritage through:
Exhibitions
Permanent and changing exhibits of historical and
contemporary work
Education
Self-guided and
guided tours, demonstrations and workshops
Outreach
Museum, community, and public school partnerships and grant
programs
Visitor Services
Information on
Seagrove area and state wide pottery communities; maps,
directions and resources
The North Carolina
Pottery Center showcases the remarkable history and on-going
tradition of pottery making in North Carolina. Located in
Seagrove, one of the state's key historical and contemporary
pottery producing regions, the Center is your first stop in
exploring North Carolina's rich clay heritage. The state's
pottery communities range form the mountains to the sea, and
it is that wide-ranging diversity of styles, techniques, and
history that the Center preserves and protects.
The Center's permanent
exhibit of more than eight hundred pieces of pottery,
artifacts, and photographs traces North Carolina's pottery
history from prehistoric Native Americans to the present.
The display interprets the impact of social, technological,
and economic change on the state's most unique cultural
resource.
Changing exhibitions of
historical and contemporary work are also on display.
Exhibitions are made possible through the
generosity of our membership, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners,
the North Carolina Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts
Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Covington Foundation, and the
Cooke Foundation. Thank you!
