When speaking about the formation of infrastructure committes to work on a festival designed to compete with the Seagrove Pottery Festival, Ben Owen III is quoted from the Asheboro Courier-Tribune for 6/13/08:
"The group is not formally organized, but will operate as an arm of a nonprofit organization, which cannot be announced until that organization’s board meets.
Owen emphasized that neither the N.C. Pottery Center nor the Seagrove Area Potters Association (SAPA) was involved with the second festival."
In a 7/22/08 e-mail from a member of the Infrastructure Committee of the Celebration of Seagrove Potters:
"It was announced at one of the first meetings, the Celebration of Seagrove
Potters will fall under the umbrella of SAPA (Seagrove Area Potters Association)."
The competing festival permit is issued in the name of Ben Owen III.
Come on now Mr. Owen, who is really running the show?
27th Annual Seagrove Pottery Festival
When: November 22-23, 2008 Where: Located At: Seagrove School, 528 Old Plank Road, Seagrove, NC.
Richard Gillson, 1936-2008.
Friend, Artist, Potter, Promoter, Visionary. No man did more to define the famous "Seagrove Area Potteries" or to nurture the traditional arts and crafts in the heart of North Carolina than Richard Gillson. His personal mission was to promote the Seagrove pottery tradition and create the most inclusive, creative, open, democratic, consistent and accessible organization in the Seagrove area.
Proposed Museum Information Center
This new and modern facility, transformed from the old downtown grocery store building, would enable the Museum to continue it's mission - to preserve and perpetuate the pottery tradition of the five-county Seagrove area, which includes Randolph, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, and Chatham counties. This area is currently home to the largest group of working potters in the nation, and is rich in North Carolina's pottery heritage that has continued in Seagrove for over 200 years.
The Randolph Plate - Circa 1775
In 1983, the Museum of NC Traditional Pottery purchased its first piece of antique pottery for the museum's permanent collection, for $6,200. It is a beautifully decorated slipware plate, 13 inches in diameter, dated by experts to the late 1700s. It is believed to have originated in Randolph County, which is further supported by the fact that it was acquired from a Randolph County family in which the plate has been for many generations. The unsigned plate's age, quality of design, condition and rarity make it one of the finest and most significant pieces of antique pottery ever to be found in the Seagrove area.
Museum gives birth to NC Pottery Center
Under Richard's leadership, the museum helped start the N.C. Pottery Center by donating nine acres of valuable commercial real estate, a large house, historic pottery, financial support and staffing to the Center over a period of many years.
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