"Cousins in Clay" Seagrove at Bulldog Pottery

"Cousins in Clay" Seagrove, May 31-June 1, 2014, Bulldog Pottery, NC

Our Honored Clay Cousins are Dan Anderson and Blair Clemo

"Cousins in Clay"

May 31 - June 1, 2014

at Bulldog Pottery in Seagrove, North Carolina

A Contemporary Pottery Show and Sale

Guest Clay Cousins 

Dan Anderson and Blair Clemo

Hosted by Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke with Michael Kline

Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm

Sunday 10:00am - 4:00pm

On Saturday

 Sips -n- Such and Greek Music

at 3:00 pm demo by Blair Clemo

On Sunday

Potters Potluck @ Noon -- All are Welcome
at 1:30-2:30 demo by Dan Anderson

Join us for this wonderful weekend about All Things Clay

Bulldog Pottery

3306 US Hwy 220 Alt

Seagrove, NC 27341

For more info. 336-302-3469

5 miles south from the town of Seagrove's traffic light

look for the large blue water tower by our driveway

"Cousins in Clay" Seagrove, May 31-June 1, 2014, Bulldog Pottery, NC

Ron Meyers at the Huntington Museum of Art

This is a video of Ron Meyers talking about his work at a 2010 Walter Gropius Master Art Series exhibition at the Huntington Museum of Art inWest Virginia.

While at the Huntington Museum of Art in 2010,
"Ron Meyers presented a three-day workshop and demonstration on making spontaneous, casual, and useful wheel-thrown pottery. Forms such as cups, platters, lidded jars and teapots were demonstrated and discussed.  Participants also experienced his use of slips and under glazes for surface decoration." (this quote is taken from the Huntington Museum of Art's website)
to read more about the Walter Gropius Master Art Series and to find out about their next workshop (which is Randy Johnston in April with a guest presentation Warren MacKenzie) click here.




Come see Ron Meyers and his pottery along with the pots of Judith Duff, Michael Kline and hosts Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke at the:

4th Annual Cousins in Clay in Seagrove, NC 
At Bulldog Pottery, 3306 US Hwy 220 Alt North, 27341
Just 5 miles South of the town of Seagrove.

May 26, 2012: Saturday 10-6 and May 27, Sunday 11-4
Greek Music played throughout Saturday afternoon by Chronis Pou Vasiliou of Greensboro, NC
Michael Kline brush-work demonstration Sat and Sun

Sunday "Potters Potluck". Bring a dish! and join in some fun conversation.

Ron Meyers Covered Jar

The Mountains: Dispatch From Bakersville!

It's 64 degrees here in the Blue Ridge today! A welcome rain has cooled everything down and the gardens are bursting! I [cousin Michael, here] have been working towards a new collection of pots for my wood kiln and the summer couldn't be finer.

Our little field of corn, potatoes, beans, and melons is a pleasure to walk through every day with its fragrant tassels and searching vines. After a nice rain, it's a must to take my boots off and walk on the red clay in bare feet.


Soft clay, imprints, a trail.

A lot of this red clay finds itself to my shop where I turn it into something with a different use. It's no wonder that pottery thrives in NC to this day, from the earliest transformations of the stuff by Native Americans to the Cousins in Clay!

view from the Mountains Cousins in Clay in Bakersville (on a sunny day!)

Peter Lenzo - Cousins in Clay- May 2011

Peter Lenzo - Face

3rd annual "Cousins in Clay" - May 28 and 29 , 2011

Bulldog Pottery - Seagrove, NC

We are excited to announce another "Cousin in Clay" guest artist Peter Lenzo, to our May 28-29 pottery weekend at Bulldog Pottery in Seagrove. He will be joining Jack Troy and Micheal Kline here with us (Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke) for the two day event. Peter is a sculptor living in Columbia, SC. He makes these incredible and thought provoking heads encrusted with porcelain finials.

There are videos and images from a workshop that were posted on jbf times blog.

To see more of Peter's work from 2008 visit Michael Baynes website. Michael has posted many images of Peter's face scupltures that they worked on together in 2008.

To read a little bit more about Peter Lenzo click to Mo' Coffee.

Jack Troy - Cousins in Clay-May 2011

Jack Troy

3rd annual "C0usins in Clay" - May 28 and 29 , 2011

Bulldog Pottery - Seagrove, NC

We are very excited to announce our 2011 "Cousin in Clay" guest potter --- Jack Troy. He is a potter, teacher, and writer from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

There is an interview of Jack Troy on his local NPR station that aired on September 24, 2010. Jack is firing his wood kiln and getting ready for his Saturday, October 30th (noon - 3:00) fall pottery sale along with his partner Carolanne Currier. A local potter, Edge Barnes from Raleigh, NC can be heard during the radio interview, helping Jack fire his kiln.

Cousin Bruce

Bruce Gholson has been an influence and hero of mine ever since I began making pots way back in 1983. My teacher at UT/Knoxville, Ted Saupe had a bunch of Bruce's pots and in particular a little set of fluted cups that were my obsession for quite a while. As a matter of fact I drank my morning of coffee out of one of them for a long time. I was fascinated by their weight, their handles, the zig zag fluting, and their beautiful shino glaze. I'm sorry that I don't have any pictures of them to show you.




Bruce continues to inspire me with his wonderful forms and beautiful glaze surfaces. It is an honor to be in his company and as he and Samantha's guest at Cousins in Clay this weekend. I can't wait to see their latest pots! And we hope to see YOU!

Read the (Mud) Bucket interview of Bruce and his partner, Samantha Henneke here.

Cousin Carol

Carol Gentithes

From Carol's artist statement:

To me, art is a visual language. The origins of my artistic language emanate from life's experiences, readings of literature and mythology, and visual interpretations of art history. Often this language focuses on the absurdity, the unpredictability and the unruliness of life. Like a classical language, the vocabulary that I create has many layers of meaning. I leave it with the viewers to derive their personal interpretations.

"Back from Extinction"

"Golden Goose"

"Transformations"

Carol is a new "cousin in clay" this year along with her partner, Fred Johnston. Both will be showing at their Johnston and Gentithes Art Pottery show room in "downtown" Seagrove, the weekend of the 5th and 6th of June at the 2nd Annual Cousins in Clay Show and Sale! Their guest this year will be Allison McGowan.

Cousin Samantha

Samantha Henneke born September 26, 1970 in Tallahassee, Fla.

From an interview on the blog, The Mudbucket, on when Samantha caught the pottery "bug":

Yes I remember very clearly. When I went to Virginia Tech I was trying to find what I was interested in doing for my “career” in life. My folks always said every semester take a class that I really enjoyed. I signed up for an art class every semester and figured I might as well get a minor in art. I needed another semester's credit and went to the sculpture class. Apparently it was full, but I was told to check out the pottery class next door. To tell you the truth I was not that enthused about taking a pottery class, but there was room and I needed the art credit. Funny to think that this pottery art class would end up being my “soul” focus in life.

Samantha transferred from Virginia Tech to the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she met her partner, Bruce Gohlson and completed her BFA in 1995.
In 1997 Samantha and Bruce moved to Seagrove, NC to set up their Bulldog Pottery.




Again from the Mudbucket interviews,

I really like to work on my glaze paintings. I focus my compositions on the insect, and recently I have started to add a bit more fantasy narrative and figurative imagery into the work. Soon we will set up a painting studio and I plan to work out more ideas on paper.

For the complete (Mud)Bucket interview click here!

Cousins in Clay : Pottery Show and Sale

Michael Kline's Bird Jar

Who:      Michael Kline, Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke

When:    Saturday and Sunday. June 6 and 7, 2009

Where:  Seagrove, North Carolina at Bulldog Pottery to have a joint pottery sale.

Times:   9:00 am - 5:00 : Saturday

               10:00 am - 5:00 : Sunday

Bruce Gholson's Vidalia Vase

Samantha Henneke's teapot