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The Board of Trustees of the Greenville Museum of Art invites you to attend the GMA Annual Meeting
Wednesday, May 16th
6:00 pm with a
Presentation by:
Ben Owens III
Seagrove North Carolina Potter and East Carolina School of Art and Design Graduate, will talk about his Life and Career as a Potter.
Ben Owen III is a potter from Seagrove, North Carolina. His forefathers came to North Carolina from England as early as the late 1700s to ply their craft and furnish storage jars and other utilitarian wares for the early settlers. Ben's grandfather, master potter Ben Owen, Sr., admired early oriental pottery displayed in museums and collections and translated those works into his own style of pottery. Ben the III's work was influenced by his grandfather at an early age. He studied pottery as an apprentice with his grandfather and later at East Carolina University. Like his grandfather, Ben III's pottery reflects a foundation of traditional designs as well as oriental translations.
For more information, call 252 758-1946.
The GMA Summer Class Schedule is now available online.
Ben Owen III making one of his large pots