Events

  • Candelabra Porcelain Clay

    Potters Market at the Mint

    A One Day Sale Featuring NC Potters.

    Mint Museum, Charlotte NC

    September 27, 2025

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  • Gay Smith with Pottery

    Spruce Pine Potters Market

    “a neighborhood show of national significance”

    Cross Street, Spruce Pine, NC

    @sprucepinepottersmarket

    October 11-12, 2025

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  • Soda Firing Pottery at The Bascom

    Soda Firing and Soft Altering

    Hands-on Workshop.

    Bring your bisque pottery to glaze and decorate for our soda firing. Plus we’ll practice altering on the wheel too.

    The Bascom, Highlands, NC.

    November 3-7, 2025

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  • Artist Gay Smith sits behind a potters wheel and looks off camera while explaining something with her hands that are covered in wet porcelain.

    SodaPosium

    An Educational Forum & Celebration of Soda Firing

    The Clay Lady’s Campus
    Nashville, TN
    June 6-8, 2025

    @sodaposium

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  • Candelabra, with lit candles, green and white

    Creative Approaches to Functional Pottery

    Hands-On Workshop

    Rochester Folk Art Guild

    Middlesex, NY

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  • Turquoise mug with a grey gradient background.

    Fresh and Lively Functional Pots

    Hands-On Workshop

    John C Campbell Folk School 

    March 23-29, 2025

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Past Events

  • Hands frozen in motion as they shape clay on a potter's wheel.

    Robert Chapman Turner: Artist, Teacher, Explorer

    Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
    Asheville, NC
    May 31 – September 7, 2024

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  • Artist Gay Smith leans over and demonstrates something for a seated student.

    Fresh and Lively Functional Pots: Altering on the Wheel with Soft Clay

    Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
    Truro, MA
    August 5 - 9, 2024

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  • Handmade poreclain cups by gay smith sit against a grey gradient backdrop.

    Yunomi Invitational

    Clay Akar
    18th Annual Yunomi Exhibition
    Iowa City, IA
    August 2024

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  • A stack of four handmade porcelain bowls made by potter Gay Smith are stacked four high next to one that sits to their side.

    Soda Firing & Dynamic Pots

    The Bascom
    Highlands, NC
    September 2 - 6, 2024
    In this workshop, we will bring cone 10 bisque ware to decorate, glaze, and load to fire the Bascom's soda kiln, plus we'll make pots too.

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  • Potter Gay Smith stands behind two turquoise vases, hugging them with her hands and smiling.

    Free Artist Talk

    The Bascom
    Highlands, NC
    September 4, 2024 | 4 - 5 pm

  • A promo poster for Potters Market at the mint featuring several images of pottery

    Potters Market at the Mint

    Hosted by the Mint Museum Randolph
    Charlotte, NC
    September 21, 2024
    A one-day sale featuring North Carolina potters on the lawn of Mint Museum Randolph.

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  • Turquoise Teapot set in front of a grey gradient background

    Strictly Functional Pottery National

    Lancaster Museum of Art

    Lancaster, PA

    September 27-November 9, 2024

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