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Due to severe damage from Hurricane Helene, our gallery, studios and teaching center are TEMPORARILY closed.
GREAT NEWS:
Our clay supply company has relocated and is open for business. Click here for more information.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
We’ve created a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the costs of rebuilding and restoring our beloved space. If you’re able to support us, any donation—big or small—would make a huge difference as we work to recover.
Please visit our GoFundMe page HERE
(https://gofund.me/48eefabc)
For updates on our recovery efforts, you can follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
For any inquiries, you can contact us via email at info @thevillagepotters.com.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
The Village Potters Clay Center is a vibrant creative community dedicated to the exploration of clay.
Below: Who we were before the flood.
We are returning at a new location as soon as possible.
Our Gallery
Our center includes one of Western North Carolina’s premier galleries, with four showrooms selling fine ceramic art and functional work representing our six resident potters: Judi Harwood, Julia Mann, Karen Dubois, Katie Meili Messersmith, Lori Theriault, and Sarah Wells Rolland.
Classes & Workshops
We offer in-person classes for beginners to advanced levels in wheel, hand building, sculpture, surface design, cone 6 and cone 10 reduction firings, wood and soda firings, raku and saggar firings, and speciality classes. We also offer online classes and workshops and host both demonstrations and hands-on workshop experiences.
Visit our Education page for more information about all of our in-person and online classes/workshops.
Clay Materials & Tools
We are also a Laguna Clay distributor able to assist with all your clay needs. Please visit our Clay Company page for information about the clay, dry materials, tools and more that we offer.
We hope you will look around our website for more information and register for a class or workshop, and shop in our gallery.
The Village Potters is currently looking for a new location in Asheville, NC.
Hours: Temporarily Closed due to the flood
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