If you like pottery and are perusing Asheville vacation rentals for your visit to Western North Carolina, you’ll have plenty of places to browse for clay goods and even make your own creations.
You’re likely to find a large number of Asheville vacation rentals near downtown and the River Arts District, home to many clay artists and studios. One is The Potter’s Mark (828-252-9122) in the historic Cotton Mill Studios at 122 Riverside Drive, Studio A, Run by husband-and-wife team Eileen and Marty Black, The Potter’s Mark offers stoneware pottery and specializes in dinnerware, serving pieces and ovenware featuring copper-red glazes.
Also in the River Arts District, at 12 Riverside Drive across from Twelve Bones Smokehouse in the Curve Studios and Garden, Kyle Carpenter of Carpenter Pottery creates handmade salt-fired ceramics. This artist combines his ceramic arts education from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with his background doing illustration. As a result, he combines the three-dimensional forms of pottery with the two-dimensional nature of drawing, making his pieces distinctive in style. For more information, call Carpenter Pottery at 828-279-3811.
Other studios in the River Arts District with clay artists include the Odyssey Center, Phil Mechanic Studios, Robert Street Studios, Studio 375, and The Wedge.
One of the best places for visitors in Asheville vacation rentals to purchase handcrafted ceramics is New Morning Gallery (828-274-2831) at 7 Boston Way in the historic Biltmore Village. The gallery represents Jan Hoyman and Doug Browe of the Hoyman/Browe Studio, Bill Campbell, Tom Homann, and other craftspeople considered to be among the best in the nation.
For visitors who want to head out from their Asheville vacation rentals and get creative, Claying Around at 1378 Hendersonville Road, Suite D, on the south side of town offers many options. You can paint your own pottery, take pottery wheel lessons, and learn painting, mosaics, glass fusing, silver clay and hand-building with clay. Complete information is available at (828) 277-0042.
Pottery enthusiasts in Asheville vacation rentals have two other places in the area where they make their own art, both run by the Fired Up! Creative Lounge. One is at 26 Wall Street in downtown Asheville (828-253-8181), and the other is at 321-B N. Main Street in downtown Hendersonville (828-698-9960). The possibilities at these studios are almost endless. Customers have made everything from tableware and mugs to figurines and piggy banks.
Finally, you’ll find pottery by local, regional and national craftspeople on the shelves of countless gift shops and galleries all over town. So for anyone in Asheville vacation rentals who has passion for pottery, Western North Carolina is that much more of a prime destination.
