Folk Art of North Carolina

March 15, 2007 9:22 AM

The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State Universityhas a great collection of folk arts. The strongest section is in ceramics, with stupendous representation from the NC wood-fired, salt and alkaline glazed traditions. There's this 1868 Hartsoe Alkaline glazed jug, this 19th cent. jug with kild-drip, this Hancock Half-Gallon jug, this Randolph Cty salt-glazed jug with ashy shoulder, and then the moderns: Burlon Craig, Vernon Owen, Mark Hewitt. There are also great photographs, weird furniture, outsider critters, and more. There isn't a good browse function, so you need some idea of what you want to search for.
posted by OmieWise (9 comments total)

Hooray for Clyde Jones (of the critters link)! If you ever find yourself in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina with time to kill, do yourself a favor and go to Bynum and check out Clyde's critter yard. He loves it when people pay him a visit to check out his yard full of critters.
posted by NoMich at 11:09 AM on March 15, 2007

Several of my friends are potters in Western NC. This site is great, thanks.
posted by headless at 11:31 AM on March 15, 2007

this is some cool stuff. i go to ncsu, and this work is just beautiful in person.
posted by virga at 11:34 AM on March 15, 2007

Seconding the Clyde Jones suggestion. A close friend of mine used to live down the street from him, and I was always amazed by the new stuff he had in his yard every time I would go to visit.

Despite the fact that I lived in Raleigh for 18 years, I've never been to the Gregg. I'll have to check it out.
posted by Rangeboy at 11:40 AM on March 15, 2007

good post, but don't forget one of the best young(ish) potters, Ben Owen.
posted by Shike at 12:26 PM on March 15, 2007

Nice post Omie. Lots to look through here.
posted by nola at 1:55 PM on March 15, 2007

It's too bad the images look like they were captured from TV.
posted by Sukiari at 2:22 PM on March 15, 2007

Thanks OmieWise. That search screen is a bit silly isn't it. There are a few places like that - sort of catch 22: you can find many things here but you must miraculously know what they are before you can find them.
posted by peacay at 8:24 PM on March 15, 2007

I remember asking my mother how to spell something, and she'd invariably say, "Look it up!" If I knew how to look it up I wouldn't need to ask how to @#!!&^@ spell it.
posted by OmieWise at 8:06 AM on March 16, 2007