Gay Smith
Pots That Dance

Gay Smith, aka Gertrude Graham Smith, single-fires porcelain in a soda kiln. She is well known for her distinctively altered wheel-thrown pottery, and teaches workshops throughout the country. Gay will grace MudFire Gallery with a large selection of new work for an exhibit entitled "Pots That Dance" running May 12 through June 4. An artist reception will be held on Thursday May 12 from 6-10pm. If you'd like to see Gay at work making pots, she is doing a workshop at MudFire in conjunction with the show.

About Gay Smith

Gay Smith, aka Gertrude Graham Smith, is a studio potter educated at Harvard University, the Findhorn Foundation, and Penland School. She single fires porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland School in the Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina. She held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana and at Penland School in Penland, NC. Her teaching credits include workshops at Penland School, the Harvard Ceramics Studio, Baltimore Clayworks, and the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland. Her work is shown internationally, and can be viewed in publications including Functional Pottery by Robin Hopper, and Working with Clay by Susan Peterson.