Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Little Brown Jug + Dig Deeper Exhibition - The Arts Center of the Capital Region
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Celebration of Seagrove Potters Show and Studio Tour
Dinner Plate with Spiral by Samantha Henneke of Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
We look forward to joining the Seagrove Pottery Community with this year's Celebration of Seagrove Potters Show and Studio Tour on November 22 - 24, Friday - Sunday. We will open on Friday during our regular hours from 10:00am - 5:00pm. On Saturday we will open by 9:00am and then back to 10:00pm on Sunday. All three days we will be open until 5:00pm.
We look forward to welcoming you here to our home gallery during this fabulous weekend of all things clay. This is a fantastic time to visit and get to know the Seagrove Potters on this festive weekend.
The list below is the breakdown on where everyone will be. Some of us are doing the studio tour only, some of us are doing the show only, and some of us are doing both!
The Seagrove Potters participating in the Tour Only
Bluestone Pottery, Bulldog Pottery/Gholson and Henneke, Chris Luther Pottery, Donna Craven Pottery, Donna Pottery Haven, Johnston and Gentithes Pottery, Jugtown Pottery, McNeil’s Pottery, Old Gap Pottery, Potts Pottery, Seagrove Art Pottery, Studio Touya, Teagues Frogtown, Thomas Pottery, Turn and Burn Pottery, Wyndham and Brooke Haven Pottery.
The Seagrove Potters participating in the Show Only
Blue Hen Pottery, Carolina Crockery and Hatfield Pottery, Cat Viera Pottery, Chad Brown Pottery, Crystal King Pottery, David Stuempfle Pottery, Eck McCanless Pottery, Fiva McCanless Pottery, Jlk Jewelry at Jugtown, Kovack Pottery, Luck’s Ware, Nicolas Havner Pottery, Pottery by Frank Neef, Red Hare Pottery, Windsong Pottery, Zehmer Pottery
The Seagrove Potters Participating in the Show and Tour
Ben Own Pottery, Dirtworks Pottery, From the Ground Up, Hickory Pottery, Keith Martindale Pottery, Matthew Kelly Pottery, Pottery Road Studio, Ray Pottery, Seagrove Stoneware Pottery, The Triangle Studio, Triple C
The Complete List of Seagrove Potters participating in the Celebration Studio Tour
Ben Own Pottery, Bluestone Pottery, Bulldog Pottery/Gholson and Henneke, Chris Luther Pottery, Dirtworks Pottery, Donna Craven Pottery, Donna Pottery Haven’s, From the Ground Up, Hickory Hill Pottery, Johnston and Gentithes Pottery, Jugtown Pottery, Keith Martindale Pottery, Matthew Kelly Pottery, McNeil’s Pottery, Old Gap Pottery, Potty Road, Potts Pottery, Ray Pottery, Seagrove Art Pottery, Seagrove Stoneware Pottery, Studio Touya, Teagues Frogtown, The Triangle Studio, Thomas Pottery, Triple C, Turn and Burn Pottery, Wyndham and Brooke Haven Pottery.
The Complete List of Seagrove Potters participating the Celebration Show at the Lucks Cannery
Ben Own Pottery, Blue Hen Pottery, Carolina Crockery and Hatfield Pottery, Cat Viera Pottery, Chad Brown Pottery, Crystal King Pottery, David Stuempfle Pottery, Dirtworks Pottery, Eck McCanless Pottery, Fiva McCanless Pottery, From the Ground Up, Hickory Hill Pottery, Jlk Jewelry at Jugtown, Keith Martindale Pottery, Kovack Pottery, Luck’s Ware, Matthew Kelly Pottery, Nicolas Havner Pottery, Pottery by Frank Neef, Pottery Road Studio, Ray Pottery, Red Hare Pottery, Seagrove Stoneware Pottery, The Triangle Studio, Triple C, Windsong Pottery, Zehmer Pottery
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Bulldog Pottery is Open
Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
Hi! Happy Holidays. We will be open for the rest of December 2023 with our regular hours. 🙂 We are open tomorrow through December 23rd and then we will open on December 26-31… from 10:00am- 5:00pm. Have a lovely Holiday and a very Happy New Year.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Carbon trapping with help from a little friend
Shino Minnow Mug made by Bruce Gholson |
Nest made by mouse out of kaolwool looking through bottom of kiln |
Bulldog Pottery’s kiln firing log |
Looking down to the bottom of the kiln from the top of the kiln's chimney |
Grouping of carbon trapped shino mugs made by Bruce Gholson |
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Loading our kiln for the 15th annual Celebration of Seagrove Potters
Samantha handing a covered jar over to Bruce |
We loaded our gas kiln this past Sunday in preparation for the upcoming Celebration of Seagrove Potters, November 19 and 20, annually the weekend before Thanksgiving. This year the Celebration has expanded to a studio tour along with the inside event at the Historic Luck's Cannery. Early bird begins at the Luck's Cannery at 9:00am and the main event opens at 10:00am. We will be participating in the studio tour part of the event. We are looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend at our pottery shop. We are taking precautions against the Sars-cov-2 virus as well as flu, so we are requesting everyone to wear masks in our pottery shop. We surely appreciate helping us keep everyone as healthy as possible.
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Glazing in the Pottery Studio
Samantha is glazing one of her pattern medley mugs |
During the past 2 weeks we have steadily worked towards finishing our newest body of pottery. It is always exciting to reach the end of a studio cycle and have a body of work completed and ready to load into our kiln. This part of the process can be filled with some anxiety until we un-brick the kiln door and pull the pots out of the kiln. Even after years of firing experience things can happen to mess something up. Whether it has something to do with the actual firing or with something that we did while glazing. It is all part of the ceramic process and it is the variability that keeps our art practice interesting and stimulating.
Bruce is glazing a plate with one of his snake images using a latex technique |
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
You Can Call them Compotes or Footed Bowls
Samantha's potter's wheel, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
Some bowls with a thrown footed pedestal and some bowls without |
Bowls with a thrown footed pedestal upside down on a table drying. These will remain this way for a day or so, until they are dry enough to turn right side up |
Footed Bowl upside down on Samantha's potters wheel |
Footed Bowl right side up on Samantha's potters wheel |
The pedestal bowls are decorated with dots patterns and set on newspapers to dry |
The pedestal bowls are decorated with a variety of dots patterns and set on newspapers to dry |
Friday, May 20, 2022
Thrown Together Pottery Show and Sale - June 17 and 18 - in Greensboro
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Throwing Ramen and Pho Bowls
Freshly thrown bowls by Samantha Henneke, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
Samantha is trimming a foot on a bowl, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
Freshly decorated bowls, Samantha Henneke, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
"Our Past Shapes Our Present" - Linda Cordell, Samantha Henneke, Kristen Kieffer, Aysha Peltz, Elizabeth Vorlicek, Adero Willard, and Blake Jamison Williams
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"Our Past Shapes Our Present" is an exhibition organized by Elizabeth Vorlicek and Blake Jamison Williams for NCECA (National Ceramics Education for the Ceramic Arts). Originally this show was to be on view during March 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. The Covid-19 pandemic cancelled the conference for 2020. This year March 2021, NCECA- Rivers, Reflections, Reinventions- will be online, the first virtual conference ever.
Bruce and I attended the Kansas City and Portland NCECA conferences in 2016 and 2017. The NCECA Ceramic Conference is an amazing time to connect with old friends and make new ones. In recent years, an estimated 6,000 ceramic artists have attended the 4 day event -- it is definitely a time to remember.
This exhibition includes seven ceramics artists. What is our common bond? We attended Alfred University in Alfred, New York and graduated together in 1995.
I am showing 6 plates decorated with figures and pattern medley designs.
Patterns of Being, Plate, Samantha Henneke, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, North Carolina |
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Whirling through January and February 2021
It is wild that we are almost through the second month of 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic still is the reason why we keep our shop closed. We are waiting until we feel comfortable opening again -- when the public health scientists feel that it is as good as it will get, and everyone has had an opportunity to get the vaccine.
Last year we took our sales online and were very pleased with the technology available to be able to keep selling the pottery we make. We focused posting our works on our social media pages, Bulldog Pottery Instagram and Bulldog Pottery Facebook. We want to write more and restart our blog. So we will see. We know a lot of people are not on social media, and also like to take a social-media-break every so often. The world changes, pottery business changes, and we must adapt too.
We miss seeing people, and the daily conversations in our Bulldog Pottery shop. Hopefully, sometime soon, in the near future, we will be opening up our doors again.
Last year, in 2020, we focused our creative attention to making forms glazed with our crystalline surfaces. For 2021 we are changing our pottery studio process and will concentrate on making pottery with our Moka glaze and Bruce's shino glazed porcelain all fired in our gas kiln. We have an AKAR Gallery show scheduled for this coming October and we will be creating a body of work for this online Artist exhibit.
Stay tuned for more posts!