Original Owens Pottery of Seagrove, North Carolina
Original Owens Pottery, founded in 1895, is the oldest pottery shop in the state of North Carolina and has six generations who have worked the wheel creating pottery. Today, it's operated by Boyd Owens, who continues the long tradition of Owens family potters spanning three centuries. The pottery continues to produce traditional dinnerware, and the famous Owens red glaze pieces that are their signature pieces.
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Ben Owen and Lee Abbott | NC Now | UNC-TV
Newsmakers: Ben Owen/Ben Owen Pottery, Inc. and Lee Abbott/Chairperson, 2014 Potters Market---September 6, 2014 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Mint Museum Potters Market Invitational (PMI). This annual event is held on the grounds of Mint Museum Randolph in Charlotte, NC. Since 2004, PMI has raised more than $200,000 and now attracts close to 1,300 people. The reputation of PMI continues to grow each year attracting local, regional, and national collectors. This exhibit will showcase over 40 North Carolina potters in one place, including master potter Ben Owen. An internationally-renowned institution, The Mint Museum is dedicated to collecting, conserving, exhibiting, inspiring, publishing and protecting important works of art and design from all over the global art community.
Seagrove Pottery in Seagrove, North Carolina
Discover the creative works created at Seagrove Pottery in Seagrove, North Carolina.
Seagrove Pottery | Collecting Carolina | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
Julia Carpenter and Michael Ausbon explore a few of the dozens of pottery studios in North Carolina's famous Seagrove area, where potters both maintain and reinvent the art form's traditions.
Rivals feud over pottery festivals
AP Television
Sanford, North Carolina - 24 October 2008
1. Wide of Don Hudson at pottery wheel
2. Tight of hands and clay
3. Tight of Hudson's face
4. Tight of hands and clay
5. Medium side shot of Hudson forming bowl
6. Tight of Hudson's face
7. Medium of Hudson taking finished bowl of wheel and setting aside
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Hudson, Potter:
They started focusing on promoting a handful of pottery superstars and saying, 'Well these are the important people who make pottery.' Well, there's some great potters in North Carolina, no doubt about it. But the vitality of North Carolina pottery is found in the hundreds of people who make it, who meet every day needs of every day people.
9. Medium of potter pulling open kiln
10. Medium of potter walking to inspect fired pottery
11. Tight pan of finished vase
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Seagrove, North Carolina - 24 October 2008
13. Wide of North Carolina Pottery Centre
14. Tight of Pottery Centre sign
15. Tight pan of pottery display
16. Medium of visitors looking at displays in museum
17. Tight of visitor
18. Medium of visitor looking at clay sculpture
19. Tight of money in donation box pans up to solicitation for donation
20. Medium of sign for Ben Owen Pottery
21. Medium of Ben Owen at wheel
22. Tight of spinning wheel, pans to follow work
23. Tight of Owen's face
24. Medium of Owen scoring side of vase
25. Tight profile of Owen
26. Wide of Owen removing finished vase from wheel
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Owen, Potter and Organiser of Celebration of Seagrove Potters Festival:
For us to be said that we are trying to take over a festival or destroy a festival, people have a, it's a� The last time I checked we live in America and it's a democracy and it's free enterprise. If a potter decides to open a shop down the road, do I complain about him opening a shop down the road?
28. Pan of pottery work on shelves
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Owen, Potter and Organiser of Celebration of Seagrove Potters Festival:
The more publicity that's done, whether it's one festival or five festivals. It's going to bring more people to the area and more people are going to know about our Seagrove area.
30. Tight pan of sign showing long list of potteries, including Kovack pottery
31. Medium of Kovack Pottery Shop
32. Medium of Michelle Kovack applying glaze to pot
33. Tight of Kovack, pushes in on work
34. Tight of Kovack's face
35. Tight of Kovack painting glaze on pot
36. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michelle Kovack, Potter:
This is a seasonal business and Christmas season is the time that we make most of our money, so it's very important that we choose wisely and we get in either one or both of those shows that we're going to have a good return on. Because we need to make money this time of year. Come January, you don't see customers for a long time.
37. Wide of Museum of North Carolina Traditional Pottery with sign promoting Seagrove Pottery Festival
38. Medium of sign promoting Seagrove Pottery Festival
39. Wide of Phil Morgan in museum
40. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Morgan, Potter and Head of the Museum of North Carolina Traditional Pottery:
Nothing can seem fair about putting on a festival the same day, the same time, the same little town of 252 people on the same weekend, in direct competition with the grandfather of all pottery festivals, Seagrove Pottery Festival.
41. Tight of sign for Celebration of Seagrove Potters
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In North Carolina in the U.S, the locals take their pottery seriously - some might say too seriously.
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Among the endless allegations of thievery, financial subterfuge and conspiracy, there is only this certainty:
North Carolinians take their pottery seriously.
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The North Carolina Pottery Center | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
The NC Pottery Center is a gateway to the many pottery traditions of Seagrove and beyond.
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Dirt Bag Pottery
A promotional mini documentary featuring Claudia George. Master Potter and teacher.
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Jerry Darnell Blacksmith | NC Now | UNC-TV
A Seagrove blacksmith is capturing the attention of not only North Carolinians, but Hollywood, as well. With several movie credits to his name, Jerry Darnell has a rich history in his trade and has made it his passion to share it with others.
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The North Carolina Pottery Center, which opened its doors in 1998, is the first state pottery center in the nation. Its permanent collection includes examples of prehistoric Native American pottery through the utilitarian earthenware and stoneware made by Moravian and Scots-Irish immigrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Center also highlights the innovations of the early twentieth century, the craft revival of the 1970s and the contemporary art pottery that has made North Carolina known around the world.
Mark Hewitt Pottery | Collecting Carolina | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
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The Quaker Potters of North Carolina
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Pamela Owens, Travis Owens, and Vernon Owens at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design
Jugtown Pottery Panel Discussion at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design on 2/5/2009.
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is a collecting museum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The Gregg Museum operates under the Division of Student Affairs and is located in the Talley Student Center in the middle of the NCSU campus. The Greggs collecting focus reflects the mission of North Carolina State University and supports its academic programs by providing research opportunities for NCSU students and the citizens of North Carolina and beyond. The collection includes, but is not limited to, textiles, ceramics, outsider/folk art, photography, architectural drawings & modern furniture. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design also puts on 6-8 exhibitions per year in its two galleries, in addition to exhibiting work at various places in the Talley Student Center and around campus.
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Alamance County, North Carolina, Redware Pottery Mug, circa 1800
Mark talks about a wonderful, recently-discovered example of Alamance County, NC redware made in the late 18th or early 19th century. It will be sold as part of our October 25, 2014 Auction of American Stoneware & Redware Pottery.
The science behind why clay is perfect for pottery | UNC-TV Science
The science behind clay, which throughout history, has been one of North Carolina's most important minerals. Native Americans discovered the many uses of clay. Colonists refined the process of making jars and pots. The pottery created by the artists of Seagrove is world famous. Here's why North Carolina's clay is so perfect.
Our Newest Weekly Show dated 01-02-2015
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Discovering Dave Trailer.mov
The Savannah River Archaeological Research Program (SRARP) is a division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) at the University of South Carolina (USC). The SRARP is located on the Savannah River Site (SRS) and manages the cultural resources for the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
This trailer highlights the upcoming documentary on the slave potter Dave. It will focus on the archaeological excavation of a stoneware vessel created by Dave. It will also include interviews with archaeologists, historians, artists, and authors discussing Dave's life and the time he lived in. Finally, the documentary will share what plans the SRARP has for the future of this important artifact.
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These byways are intended as an option to the faster-paced traffic and commercial areas found along our major highways and interstates. Following the byways, you will see some of the most breathtaking scenery from the Blue Ridge Mountains to fertile plains and the crystal blue coastline.
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