Discover the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia – A Celebration of Traditional Crafts
Arie (Mrs. Cheever) Meaders, Mossy Creek, 1968. Picture by John Burrison
The Folk Pottery Museum is filled with amazing vessels created from the imaginations and hands of north Georgia's finest potters.
Entrance to the Folk Pottery Museum. Bob Cain architect.
The design of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia recalls the shape and design of a folk potter's kiln shed.
Lobby of the Folk Pottery Museum at night, Dale Brubaker, exhibit designer.
From funny to scary, face jugs are a hallmark of folk pottery.
Steve Turpin's elephant is just one of many animal pottery sculptures on display in the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia exhibit
Whelchel Meaders came to pottery late in life. He is the soneof LQ Meaders and cousin of Lanier Meaders.
From the traditional to the whimsical, The Pottery of Whelchel Meaders presents a variety of folk pottery works.
Whelchel Meaders Mossy Creek Pottery
Northeast Georgia Mountains
Sautee Nacoochee
The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia showcases the handcraft skills of one of the South's premier grassroots art forms, folk pottery, and explores its historical importance and changing role in Southern life. The exhibits and collection tell the stories of men and women who shaped the earth and water of the Georgia mountains into once essential household items now valued and collected as distinctive folk art.
See inside of a potter's shop. Learn the purposes of different vessels. Explore the roots of Georgia potters embedded all across north Georgia.
North Georgia is well known for its tradition of folk pottery and is home to such noted potter families as Meaders, Hewell, Dorsey and Ferguson. The Meaders family of White County was featured in Allen Eaton's 1937 book, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, and was honored with a special event at the Library of Congress in 1978, when the Smithsonian Institution's documentary film on the Meaders Pottery was released.
