AUGUST 14
POTTERS FOR PEACE
SEAGROVE, NC
Chris will join 24 fellow potters for this fundraising event that benefits Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Insitutie for children in the MIddle East.

OCTOBER 1-31
CLAY AND BLOGS:
TELLING A STORY
SOUTHERN PINES,NC Exhibition of potters who share through blogs throughout the US and abroad

CELEBRATION OF SEAGROVE POTTERS
NOVEMBER 19-21
Luck's Bean Plant

As Chris Luther opens
his studio door, he
thinks about the
pots to turn, the
oneÕs to trim, and
the glazes to mix.
But he is still
smiling. "It's been
a long year. I am pretty happy to be getting back to work and having a place to do it in."  As he moves boxes around, he places one next to his wheel. "I can now literally fit how I became a potter into a small cardboard box and I am finding reassurance and inspiration in that compact package.Ó  The box he refers to holds pottery remnants from a fire that devastated his first studio a year ago. ÒWhatÕs funny is at first I looked at those sooty pots with a sad heart but now I look at them very differently. Like they say, "Adversity is a mean teacher.Ó  ...Read More

After being "mustered out" of the British Army and then chased down the Shenandoah Valley, two brothers

Chriscau of the Hessian troop of Germany, settled in the Piedmont of North Carolina after the Revolutionary War. The oldest brother, George, built his home in a place that eventually became known as Seagrove.  During that time, salt glaze pottery was being introduced from European traditions using the rich vein of clay that ran through the area. The Criscow (the beginning of the Americanizing of the name) family was beginning to grow as well where marriages were taking place between other immigrant families nearby.  The first. documented potter from this..Read More