Artist Vicki Gill
Vicki Liles Gill graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. in 1979. Studies at Gaston College, Gastonia, NC, included painting, ceramic and sculptural courses with instructors Keith Lambert and Doug Knotts.
Studies at Penland School of Craft included sessions with Sana Musasama and Paul Chaliff in 1997 and Ben Owens in 1998. A member of Carolina Clay Matters Guild since 1997, she produced the newsletter for this clay association for 4 years, coordinated a Lana Wilson workshop for the group and has displayed work with the Guild throughout the state.
In 2001, along with 5 other potters, she helped to create the non-profit Carolina Pottery Festival, which has been responsible for the exhibit and sale of over 100 potters’ work in Shelby, North Carolina on an annual basis. The annual festival has brought thousands of pottery lovers in contact with potters and has had excellent reviews.
In spring of 2003 she was the “potter’ in the show, ‘2 Painters and a Potter’ at the Rice Museum in Georgetown, SC. One of her teapots was included in the National Teapot Show V in Creedmore, North Carolina.
Her work may be seen at galleries in Asheville and Black Mountain, Gastonia, Belmont and Charlotte and in the eastern part of the state in Durham, Seagrove, and Sanford, NC.
Bluegill Pottery was established in 1997. A move to a new studio and teaching space took place in December 2004 after the receipt of a Regional Artists Grant from the Arts and Science Council. The excellent new studio has a warm, inviting display of pottery in the gallery space and spacious work areas for hand building and wheel work.
The work produced at Bluegill Pottery is thrown and handbuilt stoneware and porcelainous clay. Firing takes place in oxidation. Texturing, carving and translucent glazes are used to bring out the beauty of Eastern-style
decoration in work that is both functional and decorative.
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