Explore the Collection - Boneyard Pottery
In pottery studios, a boneyard consists of pottery made by guest potters, sculptors, and clay artists and left at the clay studio as an example of their work for teaching purposes. It also represents a potter or artist who excels in their craft and says that this artist was in the studio teaching and demonstrating, leaving behind a record for future scholars of clay. The pieces displayed here, on loan from the Newberry Arts Center, are examples of clay artists and potters who have headlined at each of the South Carolina Clay Conferences from 2015 to 2019, in Newberry, SC. These pieces have been bisque fired, the first firing for clay, but have not been glaze fired. This is typical of a boneyard. Form, texture, surface, and other aspects of the unfinished piece create so much beauty and information for the observer. To experience a virtual video tour of this exhibit, click here.
2019 Clay Conference
Matt Jones, Kevin Snipes
Kevin Snipes
2018 Clay Conference
All Works by Lisa Orr
Shadow May
Michael Kline
2017 Clay Conference
All Works by Tom Coleman, some incising work by Elaine Coleman
2016 Clay Conference
Porcelain by Michael Sherrill
Glenda Guion
2015 Clay Conference
Mike Vatalaro
Sue Grier