Margie Agnew

Margie Agnew is originally from Zimbabwe Africa. She moved to United States in 1987 and became a US citizen in 2018. She has always been interested in pottery, with a collection from around the world. Her favorite thing about pottery is playing in the mud.

Stewart Campbell

Stewart Campbell has been influenced by the ceramic traditional of North Carolina and Asia. His aim is the create pottery that people will want to pick up and hold. Stewart crafts functional stoneware pottery as well as decorative Raku items.

Gay Smith

Gertrude Graham Smith, nicknamed Gay, is a studio potter and teaching artist who singles fires her porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland, NC. Her work is represented internationally, and collections include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan.

Gary Fuquay

Gary Fuquay’s artistic stoneware vessel reflect an interest in natural forms. Gary implements mechanical lines and shapes with earth-tone glazes to enhance his designs. He produces exquisite bowls, platters, and mugs that combine function and beauty. Currently, Gary resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ashyln Disney

Ashlyn Disney is a ceramic artists and ECU alumni currently residing in Goldsboro, NC. Her body of work is primarily figurative, with a particular interest in native NC animals. She has an immense fondness of biology and works to encompass those elements into her work. She is always exploring new processes and creative avenues to further enhance her art.

Jacob Herrmann

Jacob Hermann crafts functional and decorative pottery. His woodfired stoneware reflects the exposure of the firing process in rich surfaces, laden with information and history. His works tell a tale of metamorphosis of all the elements converging at one time and place.

Randy HInson

Randy Hinson is a studio potter in the Raleigh, NC area who specializes in functional Majolica style pottery. Majolica is a richly colored, heavyweight clay pottery that is coated with enamel, ornamented with paints, and, finally, glazed.

Kathy Lyles

During the day, Kathy Lyles teaches physics and chemistry. But on the weekends, she works as a potter. The creation of forms and glazes requires a love of chemistry and physics, which has played a major role in her professional life. She has always found the joining of science and art that is inherent in pottery to be appealing.

suzanne Morrow

Suzanne Morrow has been hand-crafting pottery in North Carolina for over a decade. After taking a pottery class, she fell in love. Most of her work was made in her private studio. She loves to create colorful pieces that are functional for everyday use.

Gillian Parke

Gillian Parke was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland and grew up in Weymouth, MA. She moved to Durham, NC after receiving her BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1993. Gillian is a studio potter who works part time at the Durham VAMC. Her current work combines elements of manufactured porcelain and Japanese pottery, particularly Shigaraki stoneware.

Cheyenne Saieed

Cheyenne Saieed is a ceramicist and ECU alum who runs Cheyenne S Ceramics with their life partner, Scarlet Corey. Together, they make pottery ranging from mugs and plates to fairy houses and jewelry, do a lot of gardening, and spend time with their cats. Cheyenne’s work is mostly inspired by nature, mythology, and a love for cats.

Lauren Rogers

Lauren Rogers is a small batch Studio Potter based out of Wilmington, NC. She finds inspiration in the ocean, and its inherent strength and immense nature. Lauren is drawn to the rolling shapes, and fluid movements. Lauren works with glazes that move and blend, creating subtle variations throughout a single pot.

ERIKA GIBSON

Erika Eagle Gibson is a largely self-taught, versatile and eclectic designer. Her interest in ceramics dates from summer camp experiences in her single-digit years, and she rediscovered the medium as an adult. Erika’s primary aim is to empower and encourage others to create.

MATT GIBSON

Matt Gibson calls himself a husband, father, artist, teacher, coach, mentor, potter, sculptor, woodworker, welder, builder, fixer, ECU, ISU, RMHS, surfer, wing foiler, kite surfer, lover of the sun, sand, wind, and waves. His functional pottery is hand thrown on the potter’s wheel, hand painted, and then carved.

Kyle Rees

Kyle Rees graduated from Ball State University, where he majored in Art Education and discovered his profound love for the pottery wheel. In 2013, Rees received a MFA in Ceramics from ECU. Today, Rees is an art teacher and continues to create his own artwork that is shown in galleries across the country.

Tansy O'Bryant

Tansy Obryant is a potter who creates a variety of functional pottery with immense details. Tansy creates ceramic pieces that blend form, surface design, and painting all while using local materials in high temperature atmospheric environments.

Kim Sawyer

Kim Sawyer may be retired but she is still a working teacher. Kim has many hobbies with pottery being at the top of the list. A Salem College pottery class sparked her love of pottery in 2011, and she has created consistently ever since.