North Carolina Pottery Center

Program Support 2008-2009

Grants provide essential support for the mission of the Center to promote an awareness of North Carolina's rich pottery making traditions, past and present.

North Carolina Arts Council

-For General Support $25,000

-Folklife Program Traditional Arts in Schools $8,000

The TAPS funding supports:

1.Renewal Credit Workshop for Randolph County and Asheboro City School Art Teachers. (10 hours)

2.Seagrove Elementary School Second Grade Students' Tour of the Pottery Center and Demonstration in the Covington Education Building. (76 students)

3.Seagrove Elementary School Fourth Grade Students Tour, demonstration and hands on project. Each student is decorating a tile which will become part of a large tile mural to be displayed at Seagrove School.

(81 students)

4. Westmoore School Second and Third Grade Tours of the Pottery Center.

Seagrove 2008-2009 TAPS program

Sid Luck of Lucks Ware Pottery http://www.lucksware.com/home.html was chosen to coordinate the 2008 -2009 TAPS program at the North Carolina Pottery Center. Chad Brown is serving as teaching assistant.

Twenty-one fourth graders from Seagrove Elementary School applied to the program and ten have already completed the fall session. The spring session started February 10th with the remaining eleven students.

Classes are meeting after school once weekly for ten weeks. Students learn the basics of wheel turning, hand building and glazing.

FALL 2009 TAPS PARTICIPANTS

SPRING 2009 PARTICIPANTS

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Laura Avery from Avery Pottery and Tileworks was chosen to coordinate the Spring 2008 Seagrove Folk Life Program sponsored by the NC Arts Council. The grant designed for this project was to reach the local community; to better educate and expose the school children to their local arts community in which they live.

These pictures show the finished project displayed in the Seagrove Public Library.

Over a period of several weeks, every 4Th grade class was escorted over to the NCPC where they watched a demonstration from a local potter and completed one to three tiles for the project.