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One of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy Lewis

One of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy Lewis

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One of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy Lewis

One of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy Lewis

One of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy LewisOne of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy LewisOne of a Kind Vases & Lamps Sculpture and Handbuilt Pottery by Nancy Lewis
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Welcome to My Studio

In this picture the Studio has been  winterized.  The glazes are in  cabinets and covered with blankets until Springtime.  Each piece is built using a variety of subject matter,  shapes and sizes of body, rim and base also vary. 

 They are covered  when they are finished being built, and stored for up to 4 weeks or more  to dry depending on the temperatures.  They are then very fragile and are brought back into the studio to begin the glazing process, which is a  detailed and time consuming process.   

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How I Work

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The way I work in my small studio, Snails Pace Pottery,  harkens  back to the Arts and Crafts movement at the early 1900's.    Like the women who worked for the Rookwood and Newcomb Potteries, I decorate one vessel at a time.  These women did not throw or fire the pottery they glazed.  Each woman sat at a small desk in a beautiful room with huge palladium windows decorating one piece of pottery at a time. 

They worked in long full skirts and blouses with high starched collars under immaculate studio conditions.

 At that time, “it was assumed that a professional male potters would work the clay, throw the pots, and fire the kiln," 

  • I like to work in jeans and T-shirts in my  sunny studio .  I do all of the jobs needed to produce my large hand built vessels myself.  

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I  especially like the architectural nature when I build these pieces.  I can alter the individual components which result in a variety of sizes and shapes. The glazing process, which is brushed by hand, is detailed, delicate and time consuming.  I use different types of glazes (multi-glazed) and fire at various temperatures (multi-fired) per piece. The vases are water tight and can hold enormous floral arrangements (being purposely weighted on the bottom to remain stable) and  easily wired for wonderful  lamps.  Hand-built artwork and pieces also go through many productive steps to reach the final delightful design.

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Ellsworth Woodward, instrumental in shaping Newcomb pottery emphasized, “the desirability of an artist using her own environment as a starting point for any creation.”  Historically in the Orient  they most often took their subject matter from nature.  Clay has always been a medium that can receive impressions and I often take full advantage of clays  characteristic by rearranging botanicals and other items, like shells,  when I layout a design on the moist clay.  I took printmaking classes  at ASU  and I worked at the Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida; so my compositions in clay reflect a blending of my experience and interests. 

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Pottery Teachers

Workshops & Classes with the following potters:

  


Michele Tondi - Atlanta Parks and Recreation


Richard Palmer - Georgia State University


Rick Berman - Callanwolde Arts Center, Atlanta, Ga.


Dean Adylotte - Scorpio Rising, Athens, Ga


Bob Westervelt - Hambidge Arts Center, N. Ga.


Frank Colson - Colson’s School of Art, Sarasota, Fla


Hal Reigger - Kiln Room, Foscoe, NC


Glenn Pheifer - ASU Art Dept., Boone, NC


Angela Fina - Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC


Steve Howell - Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh, NC

  

Pete Pinnell - Odyssey Center for the Arts, Asheville, NC

 

Hal Reigger - Kiln Room, Foscoe, NC  

Teaching Pottery to Children

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Set up a small pottery studio at the Watauga Youth Network  for high school students,  Boone NC. 


Set up the first  ‘Children Gallery’  displaying artwork by  students of the  local public school Art teachers in downtown Jones House Community Center,  Boone, NC. 


Taught Clay for Kids class for Caldwell Arts Council,  Lenoir, NC.


Taught pottery to children in the  Landship House 

(a group home) Blowing Rock, NC.  at my home studio nearby in the neighborhood.


7-9th grade Art Teacher,  Appalachian Christian school. 

Boone NC

Contact Me

Drop us a line!

Please Call and make an appointment to drop by the studio and see my work.

My time in the studio varies so please contact me via email,  phone,  text .

Snails Pace Pottery

Snails Pace Pottery, 282 W. Grandview Heights, Boone, NC 28607, US

828 773 3752 or 828 262 9817