The Mint Museum’s Randolph Road location is offering A Thriving Tradition: 75 Years of Collecting North Carolina Pottery on Tuesday, January 31 from 6 PM to 9 PM. This presentation is a part of their ArtFusion program, blending various artistic genres around the theme of pottery. Admission is free and no registration is required. The address is 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC 28207.
The evening will open with a pottery demonstration by Adrienne Dellinger, of Clayworks, a Charlotte based collective.
Music and poetry relating to pottery are also included. Brian Gallagher, the Mint’s Curator of Decorative Arts, will take those in attendance on a musical tour with tonal interpretations from The Jazz Arts Initiative.
The Black Ink Monks, comprised of Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) students, will team up with fellow students in an entrepreneurial class led by Dr. Kristin Hemmy, a renowned poet who chairs the JCSU Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Philosophy and Religion. Their presentation spotlights Dave the Potter, who lived in slavery in Edgefield, South Carolina.
The first documented discovery of gold in the United States at the Reed Mine led to the establishment of the original branch of the United States Mint, later to become the Mint Museum Randolph, which opened in 1936 as the first art museum in North Carolina.
Today the Mint features collections from all over the world, including the art of the ancient Americas, ceramics and decorative arts, historic costume and fashionable dress, and European, African, and Asian art.
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