2009 Market Potters Announced

Vessel by visiting potter, Susan Whalen, Horseshoe, NC

The potters invited to the 2009 Spruce Pine Potters Market Invitational has been announced!
In alphabetical order,

Stanley Andersen
Will Baker
Pam Brewer
Cynthia Bringle
Lisa Bruns
Melisa Cadell
Naomi Dalglish
Claudia Dunaway
Jon Ellenbogen
Susan Feagin
Becky Gray
Michael Hunt
Shawn Ireland
Nick Joerling
Michael Kline
Suze Lindsay
Courtney Martin
Linda McFarling
Kent McLaughlin
Shane Mickey
Jane Peiser
Mark Peters
Becky Plummer
Lindsay Rogers
David Ross
Michael Rutkowsky
Norm Schulman
Ken Sedberry
Jenny Lou Sherburne
Gay Smith
Liz Summerfield
Joy Tanner
Tzadi Turrou
Jerilyn Virden
Susan Whalen

The show is scheduled for October 10th and 11th in Spruce Pine, NC.

Save the date!

Facebook Slide Show

Richard Kennedy has posted a slide show of the pictures he took at the Potters Market this past weekend. The photos are really great. Thanks Richard! It was a beautiful weekend and we all look forward to the 2009 Spruce Pine Potters Market.

Sneak Peeks

shameless, not only for the self promotion,
but the cinder blocks as well!

Terry Gess

Melisa Caudell

Linda McFarling

Ken Sedberry

Emerging Potter: Lindsay Rogers

Mugs, Lindsay Rogers, Bakersville, NC

Each year an emerging potter is invited to the Spruce Pine Potters Market. Lindsay Rogers is this years potter. Lindsay is a new resident potter at the crafts studios at the Energy Xchange in Burnsville. The potters and glassblowers at the Xchange use methane from a former landfill to fuel furnaces and kilns. Pretty cool. It is the first in the country. Visit Lindsay's web site here and see more pots in her gallery and read more about this talented young potter.

Here is an excerpt from Lindsay Rogers statement:

There is an excitement I feel in creating something new from the earth that has the potential to hold way more than just my history that I send through my hands. I have been very visually inspired by weathered wood, growing lines, and general markings of time and movement. I am physically inspired by objects I tend with my hands that go on to happen without me.

Lindsay has also just published an essay in The Studio Potter, an unparalleled bi-annual publication about pottery. You can read that article here.

Come visit the Show on the 11th & 12 of October. Lindsay Rogers will have some new pots there, no doubt still warm from the kiln!

Coming Soon

Carved Bowl, Cynthia Bringle, Penland, NC

The Spruce Pine Potters Market is just around the corner, October 11th and 12th. We hope you're making plans to come! Cynthia Bringle will be there with her wonderful pottery as well as 30 other potters and clay sculptors. Go here for more info.

Accomodations in Spruce Pine

If you're planning your trip to the mountains for the big weekend go to our web site and check out this page. It lists all of our recommended accommodations in the area. There is also the annual Mineral City Heritage Festival the same weekend just around the corner from the Potter's Market. Go here to see information about that event.

Ron's Slide Show

Ron Slagle has put together a slide show of images from the 2007 Potter's Market in Spruce Pine. There were crowded aisles during Saturday and a real excitement throughout the booths. Maria must have been tending the booth while Ron was roaming around with his camera! Thanks Ron!


You can click on the slide show 'window' to view in another window at full size.