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The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design will present, as part of their major exhibit on the works of Blue Ridge potters and weavers, two highly experienced craftsmen, at a Tea Time Talk on September 9, 2003, at 4 PM at the conference room of the Kellogg Conference Center. Mike Harmon of Buffalo Creek Weavers and Mark Peters of Pine Root Pottery will discuss their work. The exhibition, Blue Ridge Potters and Weavers, is on display through September 26. The show features the Buffalo Creek Weavers of West Jefferson and eleven potters from Bakersville, including several members of The Potters of the Roan. These featured artists are new to the third edition of Handmade in America�s popular guidebook, �Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina.� Mike Harmon of Buffalo Creek Weavers is a sixth generation weaver. His great-great-grandfather, James Goodwin, began weaving in a silk shed in Macclesfield, England, in 1812. The Goodwin�s came to America in 1837, and operated various mills in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Mark Peters holds a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mark works out of his studio, Pine Root Pottery, in Bakersville. Mark also teaches workshops, participates in craft fairs, and serves as chairman of the Potters of the Roan, a guild of professional potters living and working in the Bakersville area. Pine Root Pottery can be seen on the Internet at www.pinerootpottery.com. The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, a regional center of the University of North Carolina, is located at the UNC-Asheville Katherine Kellogg Center at 1181 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. It is open free to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 1-5 PM. For more information, please call the Center at 828-890-2050 or visit their web site, www.craftcreativitydesign.org. (Images provided by The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design and The Buffalo Creek Weavers)
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John Goodwin, Mike�s grandfather, taught Mike weaving at the family business, Goodwin Weavers, in Blowing Rock. John spent many year traveling throughout the Southern Appalachians creating pattern drafts from historic coverlets. Goodwin Weavers produced sixty of these patterns until the business closed in 1990. Now the family tradition continues at Buffalo Creek Weavers in West Jefferson, where Mike is using the old family looms from the 1880s and the historic patterns to produce quality coverlets, throws, pillows, and tote bags. Buffalo Creek Weavers can be seen on the Internet at 