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The Folk Pottery Museum celebrates its second anniversary September 1 by opening a one-year exhibition of folk pottery representing cultures around the world. “These artifacts are drawn from the private collection of Dr. John Burrison, folklorist at Georgia State University and Curator of our museum,” explains Museum Director Chris Brooks. “The temporary exhibition will show some connections between design and techniques in other countries to what Georgia folk potters were developing in their own communities.”
The one-year temporary exhibition joins permanent displays and a collection thats shows how men and women shaped the earth and water of this region into once essential household items now valued and collected as distinctive fold art. Traditions passed down through generations and apprenticeships thrive in potteries, shops and festivals throughout northeast Georgia.
Brooks also reports that the Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution will extend through 2009 the loan of a 600 year old bowl excavated in 1915 from the Nacoochee Mound at the intersection of Georgia Highways 17 and 75, two miles from the museum. The Nacoochee Mound bowl, produced by Mississippian tribes who inhabited the area centuries ago, is displayed in Georgia for the first time at the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.
SNCA members are encouraged to stop by the Center to experience the new exhibit and then spread the word to friends and family! |
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The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia invites the public to a free open house and presentation on Friday evening, October 3. Dr. Henry Glassie, folklorist at the University of Indiana and author of more than a dozen books about American folk culture, will speak on “Use and Beauty: the Art of the Southern Folk Potter.”
From 6 pm, visitors are welcome to browse the Museum's permanent displays and collection of more than 170 items of Northeast Georgia folk pottery, as well as view a new temporary exhibition of international folk pottery, showing pieces from Asia, Europe and Mexico. Dr. Glassie will begin his presentation at 7 pm, showing images that link together Georgia and North Carolina folk pottery traditions. A reception follows, and Dr. Glassie will autograph copies of his book The Potter's Art.
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The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia will be holding pottery demonstrations for the next few months on the third Saturday of that month. The first one will be held September 20 and will feature Roger Corn. Next will be Ruby and Jessie Meaders on Saturday, October 18. Finally, Steve Turpin will hold the last pottery demonstration on November 15.
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The
SNCA staff developed the Folk Potters Trail brochure
to coincide with the opening of the Folk Pottery
Museum in September, and connect visitors with the
living tradition of northeast Georgia ceramics. A
charitable effort by the museum and SNCA, the brochure
leads hundreds of interested collectors to the shops
of folk potters. We recently learned that the Folk
Potters Trail will be featured in National Geographic
Traveler Magazine sometime this fall. The magazine
is featuring a geotourism mapguide to Appalachia
featuring two driving trails from each of 13 states.
Georgia’s contributions will be the Chieftains
Trail in the northwest and our own Folk Potters Trail
in northeast Georgia. The trail brochure is available
on the museum website and links to the site will
be published in National Geographic Traveler. Special
counting software is already in place to allow SNCA
to track the impact of this national exposure.
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The
Times, Gainesville, September 3, 2006
NORTHEAST
GEORGIA FOLK POTTERY, NEW
MUSEUM IN SAUTEE CELEBRATES
MASTERS OF CLAY
The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia opened
Saturday, inviting guests to discover the history
of folk pottery in our region and how it moved
from the kitchen cabinets of the 1800s to the collectors'
display cases of present day. Read
more ... |
AccessNorthGa.com,
August 29, 2006
FOLK
POTTERY MUSEUM OPENS AT THE
SAUTEE NACOOCHEE CENTER
Let me tell you, one of the delightful things
happening in our area right now is a serious preserving
and displaying of our unique history ... and in
that light the history of Northeast Georgia has
another crown jewel. Come noontime this Saturday,
September 2, the new Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast
Georgia will hold its official opening , and may
I suggest you go see it. It is something special
... a standing tribute to a family oriented business
that started as a necessary product in every mountain
home, and now has become a distinctive and collected
art form. Read
more ... |
AccessNorthGa.com,
August 28, 2006
NATION'S
ONLY MUSEUM DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY
TO FOLK POTTERY OPENS SATURDAY
SAUTEE-NACHOOCHEE - The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast
Georgia opens its doors Saturday in White County, the
country's first and only museum dedicated exclusively
to folk pottery. Read
more ... |
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BROOKS
JOINS FOLK POTTERY MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA
AS DIRECTOR
The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia on
the campus of the Sautee Nacoochee Center welcomes
Chris Brooks as its first Director. Chris, a native
of Atlanta, was raised in Stone Mountain and attended
Young Harris College in north Georgia. A veteran
of the United States Navy, Chris served six years
in the submarine service and returned home in 1985
to enroll at the University of Georgia to complete
his degree in history. His studies with noted historian
Dr. Phinizy Spalding sparked a lifelong interest
in Georgia history and rural heritage. Chris also
holds a Masters degree in Historical Archaeology
from The College of William and Mary. Read
more ... |
FOLK
POTTERY MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA GRAND OPENING
IN SEPTEMBER
On September 2nd, the long awaited Folk
Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia will open its
doors. More than five years in the making, the Museum
will be a showcase for the rich folk pottery tradition
of our region. Read
more ... |
POTTERY
TELLS THE STORY OF MOUNTAIN HERITAGE AND FOLK
TRADITIONS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA
When the doors of the Northeast Georgia Folk Pottery
Museum open in September, 2006, visitors will be invited
to absorb the spirit of Georgia’s Appalachian
people through the display and illumination of nearly
200 years of pottery making. Read
more ... |
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