Seagrove Creations Pottery Gallery

Nica Ceramic Art | Gallery Nica | Nicaragua | Pottery | Raleigh | NC

In this video, we introduce our guests to the Gallery.

NICA Ceramic Art was born out of the Peace Corps experience of founder Paul H. Devoti in the indigenous pottery pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua. The mission of NICA Ceramic Art is to expose the world to the ceramic art work of the master artisans of the pueblo as well as the Nicoyan Indian heritage behind their craft.

The methods in which NICA Ceramic Art achieves these goals are:

* The Artist Exchange Program: Over the past 12 years, NICA Ceramic Art has sponsored over 40 artisan visits to the North Carolina studio. The artist exchange program creates an environment for featured artists to live and work in the United States where they can share their unique creations with the art-collecting community. Visiting artists create their own body of work in a variety of techniques that express both their cultural heritage as well as their creative innovations.
* Nica Ceramic Art: This website showcases broad collections where the work of a number of master artisans of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua are represented. These collections support the range of technique and artists that make San Juan de Oriente ceramic art one of the finest pottery-producing pueblos in the world. Whereas the art events feature the work of one visiting artist, the website is a representation of the community as a whole.

The fulfillment of these goals creates positive economic benefits for San Juan de Oriente artisans while opening the collector community to the world-class cultural and contemporary pottery of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua.

Nica Ceramic Art
5959 Triangle Town Blvd #1188
Raleigh, NC 27616