Margie Agnew

Margie Agnew is originally from Zimbabwe Africa. She moved to United States in 1987 and became a US citizen in 2018. She and her family have lived in Eastern North Carolina since their arrival. She has always been interested in pottery, with a collection from around the world. Margie started turning and firing her own pots in 2013. 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. She’s held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation and at Penland School. Her teaching credits include workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School, the Harvard Ceramics Studio, and the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland. Her work is represented internationally, and collections include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. She’s been featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine, and her work is included in numerous publications. She has served on the boards of Penland School of Craft and the NC Pottery Center.

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 North Carolina 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 and create new and exciting pieces.

Jacob Herrmann

Jacob Herrmann crafts functional and decorative stoneware pottery. Jacob’s woodfired stoneware pottery 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. Jacob’s Raku pottery is rooted in nostalgia and weakness; missed expectations and questioning values. His Raku pots are not utilitarian because of the post firing reduction process.

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. She began throwing pots as a hobby in the 1980’s and after raising three beautiful girls, she returned to the wheel. 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 at her local Parks and Recreation Center, she fell in love. She’s been working and learning from local master potter, Dan Finch. 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. Cheyenne enjoys creating intricate, highly detailed ceramics that give people a lot to see.

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, as well as the intricate and constantly shifting palate. She uses this inspiration to create functional pots that transcend much of these same themes. Her pots her designed to stand strong and with a presence, while maintaining a sense of grace and rhythm. Lauren works with glazes that move and blend, creating subtle variations throughout a single pot.

ERIKA GIBSON

Erika 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. She then went on to study Fine Art at East Carolina School of Art & Design, and Business Administration, Marketing at Western Governors University. Erika’s primary aim is to empower and encourage others to create. There are prevalent misconceptions, like that an artist must have a degree and be able to draw a straight line without a ruler. The professed perfection of others can be intimidating; but the process of creation can be approachable, accessible and centered on the sheer joy of making something unique and authentic.

MATT GIBSON

“A jack of all trades master of none is better than a master of one.” 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. The ceramic pieces are simple in shape and more time is spent painting and carving each one. The designs are inspired by classical, and tribal oceanic pottery. The motifs range from waves, suns, nature, aquatic life and the North Carolina coast. The imagery is brought to life with bright color, gestural brush work, and intuitive carvings that wrap around a ceramic vessel.

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 Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from ECU. Today, Rees is an art teacher in Indiana and continues to create his own artwork that is shown in galleries across the country.