Gallery

Claymakers' Gallery

Claymakers Gallery specializes in contemporary studio pottery and ceramic art. Changing exhibits feature the diverse work of our region. North Carolina has a long history in the clay arts, with a wealth of exceptional ceramic artists and potters who are national leaders and teachers. Claymakers Gallery makes their work available in the Triangle through special exhibits featuring invited artists, as well as through regular showing of artists in Claymakers' immediate community. It's the perfect place to explore the possibilities of clay -- and to find a unique gift!

2018 Exhibit Schedule

Anne Gregory-Bepler and Dare Coulter: Installations
July 3 - August 4

“Falling into Stillness”
Installation by Anne Gregory-Bepler

“Is Man’s cruelty and aggression to one another innate or learned? Is it environmental or pure instinct like that of wasps, hornets and tree galls? How do we reconcile human-inflicted suffering and the sacrificial love of a parent for their child? And how do we respond when unimaginable violence becomes real, whether here or in other parts of the world, where a split second is all that stands between a loved one’s intact life and the fall into stillness?”

Anne Gregory-Bepler
After graduating with an MFA in Sculpture from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1990, Anne exhibited her sculptural installations for ten years on the eastern seaboard from Miami to New York City and in the Netherlands, earning artist residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center, Heusden, The Netherlands, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, two NC Artist Fellowships, an NEA regional grant and others. Beginning in 2000, she devoted her energies fulltime to working with, mentoring and teaching art to young adults at Durham Academy’s Upper School as well as raising her son, Tristan. Having earned a sabbatical from Durham Academy this year to rejuvenate and “kick-start” her own creative artmaking, she has launched a new ongoing series of sculptural installations that reflect on current social issues.

“Right Before We Fly”
Selected sculptures from the Black on Black Project's Anchorlight Gallery Exhibition
by Dare Coulter

“In this life we start from scratch. We cast our trajectory and take off into the world to see who and what we will become. Before we take that leap, anything is possible. But as we prepare to jump we are faced with the voices of others telling us who we can and cannot be. This is an ode to the moment before our toes leave the ground, where the impossible doesn't exist and we remember that we don't have to limit ourselves because someone else couldn't fathom a dream so big.”

Dare Coulter
Dare Coulter was born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Lorton, Virginia. In December 2015 she graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor's of Art + Design. Dare found her passion in sculpture through training with adjunct professor Holly Fischer at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, and Dare considers herself a graduate of Meredith College as well. At twenty-five years old Dare is at the beginning of her career. Dare is primarily a figurative ceramic sculptor, but she works in a diverse range of fields and media including drawings, paintings, and murals. Dare has won more than 60 awards. Most recently she completed her first permanent outdoor mural in Raleigh, NC on the back of the historic Boylan-Pearce building, and was selected as the inaugural fellow for the Jo Ann Williams Artist Fellowship in association with the Black on Black Project.

Prior Exhibits

Light in LIne - Work of Lisa Stinson and Tim Turner
May 23 - June 30

Light in Line presents the complementary work of Lisa Stinson and Tim Turner. Stinson is showing selections from several bodies of work, including illustrative pieces from her “Time Marking,” “Arabesque,” and “Textere” series. Hung as wall pieces, these works complement a collection of Turner’s functional pottery. Both artists prefer unassuming forms on which to work surface inflections and layer painterly glazes. Both often choose treatments that convey a sense of inner luminosity emerging through strata. A multi-part installation from the “Textere Series” – collaborative work by Stinson and her husband, glass artist Ken Calder – seems almost a three-dimensional extraction of the intuitive, gestural linear decorations found throughout the show.

Ceramic Work of Ibrahim Said
April 3 - May 19

This exhibition features selections from Ibrahim Said's vessel series, “Nile Brides,” and an installation of his multipart sculpture, “Water Lily.” Said’s vases and bottle forms reflect his background in historical Egyptian pottery, while “Water Lily,” illustrates the carving and Middle Eastern-influenced patterning for which he is known.

as·sem·blage
/əˈsemblij/ -a collection or gathering of things or people.
-Ceramic Sculpture Installation by Rosalie Midyette
February 16 - March 31

Rosalie Midyette creates beautifully smooth, tactile forms, inspired by the natural and infinite sculpting of the earth through the dynamic, geologic processes of water and wind. as·sem·blage brings together a variety of Midyette’s ceramic sculptures, from large to small scale, some earth-bound and some suspended.