A local Western North Carolina Inn is advertising some wonderful artistic retreats, including one for Pincu Pottery!
The Hemlock Inn, a beautiful place to spend a week in the Great Smoky National Park, is suggesting a stay during Sept. 12-17. During your stay, come take a class at Pincu Pottery!
While here, choose a watercolor painting master-class with Elizabeth Ellison for part of the week!
Hemlock Inn - Bryson City, North Carolina
It’s been a while since I last posted – we are in the heat of summer (no kidding at 90 degrees every day for months!) and things are busy in the Smokies.
Pincu Pottery opened in May and I have had the pleasure of teaching some fabulous people how to play with clay. It has really been fun!
I have had one-on-one sessions with people that had dreamed of potting for most of their lives and finally got a chance, families with six (that’s right, 6) children, Mommies and their babies looking for foot & hand prints permanently affixed in clay, Mother/Daughter/Grandmother outings, friends, local folks, vacationers, hearing impaired folks, disabled individuals…..from seven to over seventy… the list goes on.
Everyone approaches clay with a unique eye and a range of abilities. It is so great to watch the ‘deer in headlights’ look on some faces when they arrive turn into proud smiles as they leave. I think the topping on the cake would be to see everyone use their pots in their homes… I bet it is one proud moment. I remember using my pots for the first time. What a feeling of having created a useful object that both functioned well and was beautiful!
This week I was visited by an awesome lady. Laura said that when she was laid off (do I hear the word Recession?) she and her husband decided to sell everything and live – that is, they sold everything but their bicycles and headed East from Oregon. They just arrived in Bryson City. Two-wheeled it the whole way! Check out the blog of their travels and post a comment to give them your well wishes on the roads to follow!
Laura throwing her first pot!
Today begins another session of pottery classes at the Heritage Arts Institute at Southwestern Community College. We have the BEST Ceramics program in Western North Carolina!!!
There is still time to register and join us! Here is the list of classes I will be teaching this summer:
Beginner/Intermediate Wheel – Tuesday and Thursday nights 6-9 pm. Come one, Come all – no experience necessary!
Handbuilding with Clay – Monday afternoons 1-5 PM. Learn to make pots and sculpture without any fancy, expensive tools! No experience necessary.
Pots out of Round – Know how to center a ball of clay on the wheel and make a cylinder? Now lets learn to get it out of the round and into square, triangle, or anything else not round! This class will be truly fun for intermediate to advanced throwers! Mon and Wed. nights 6-9 PM.
Go to the Heritage Arts website and check out the dates. Mark your calendar and call to register! It’s never too late to learn to pot!
Pincu Pottery 