Museums in a Minute: NC Pottery Center

The Museums in a Minute series shares a variety of North Carolina's art collections, displaying works by artists from our state and around the world. For more of the NC Arts Council's sixty second museum profiles, visit http://www.ncarts.org/museumsminute.

The North Carolina Pottery Center, which opened its doors in 1998, is the first state pottery center in the nation. Its permanent collection includes examples of prehistoric Native American pottery through the utilitarian earthenware and stoneware made by Moravian and Scots-Irish immigrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Center also highlights the innovations of the early twentieth century, the craft revival of the 1970s and the contemporary art pottery that has made North Carolina known around the world.

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