 Kim Ellington |
I live in Vale, North Carolina, home to a tradition of using local stoneware clay to make ash glazed, wood fired pottery. I am fortunate to live where these pre-industrial methods survived the 20th century intact and continue to influence and define my community. |
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2006 - Elements: Ancient Cosmology - Contemporary Experience, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina 2007 - Common Ground- A north Carolina Tradition: Functional Wood Fired Pottery Pritam & Eames Gallery, East Hampton, New York Potter's Market Invitational, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina 2005 - The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina The Living Tradition: Wood-Firing in North Carolina, North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, North Carolina New Talent 2005, Weisspollack Galleries, New York, New York 2004 – Functional Ceramics 2004, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio Extravagant Imagination: Teapots, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Old World-New World, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts 2002 – Studio Pottery Invitational, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA 2001 – Birth by Fire, Leeds Gallery at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 2000 – Ceramic National, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York The New Heritage of North Carolina Pottery, Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 1999 – Different Stokes International Woodfire Exhibition, Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa Functional Ceramics 1999, Wayne Center For The Arts, Wooster, Ohio 1998 – A Wealth of Woodfirng, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts 1997 – Ceramic Art of North Carolina, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina 1992 – North Carolina Clay, Visual Arts Center, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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| Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, North Carolina Visual Arts Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York |
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| Publications | |
| February 1998 “In My Own Backyard” Ceramics Monthly
June 2000 “Checking For Clay” Studio Potter |
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| Bibliography | |
| Books: Hewitt, Mark and Sweezy, Nancy. 'The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery' University of North Carolina Press, 2005 Perry, Barbara Stone. 'North Carolina Pottery, The Collection of the Mint Museums' University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Olsen, Frederick L. 'The Kiln Book, Third Edition' Krause Publications, 2001 Huffman, Barry G. 'Catawba Clay, Contemporary Southern Face Jug Makers' A.W. Huffman publishing, 1997 Video Documentary: Shortt Stories Teleproductions “1840 Carolina Village” 1997 |
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