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 Celebrate Clay Day at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center on June 6 from 10am to 4pm. This free event features craft demonstrations and hands-on activities for children and adults.
Clay Day has been a favorite happening at the Blue Ridge Parkway's Folk Art Center for over 20 years. Members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild demonstrate throwing on the potter's wheel, hand building and surface design on clay, among other techniques. A highlight of the day is the Make and Take Raku Firing. Buy a $10 pot, glaze it and watch as expert potters raku fire it for you. Raku is a ceramic firing process which uses fire and smoke to create unique patterns and designs. Guild members Steven Forbes-deSoule, Kim Dryden, and Nancy Darrell will help with this crowd-pleasing activity. Jan Morris and Sandra Rowland will host a children’s table where kids will be invited to play with clay and make something to take home. Potters Lee Davis and Lynn Jenkins will demonstrate wheel throwing while Ann Gleason will share her hand-building skills. Other Southern Highland Craft Guild members who will share their techniques include: Becky and Steve Lloyd (sgraffito pottery), Nancy Jacobsohn (clay sculpture), Marcia Bugg (wheel throwing), Karen Newgard (sgraffito pottery), and Lynn Jenkins (wheel throwing). Clay for demonstrations and activities is generously donated by Highwater Clays of Asheville. While at the Folk Art Center, visitors will have the opportunity to visit Allanstand Craft Shop, the Eastern National bookstore and Blue Ridge Parkway information desk, as well as three exhibition galleries. Outside the Folk Art Center, there are hiking trails, picnic tables, grassy areas for a picnic and plenty of free parking. For more information about this event or any other event sponsored by the Southern Highland Craft Guild please visit: www.craftguild.org. The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1930 to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation. The Southern Highland Craft Guild is authorized to provide services at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center under the authority of a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. (Image provided by the Craft Guild.)
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