Venue

Seagrove, NC - The Thompson Arts & Event Hall at historic luck’s cannery (798 NC-705, SEAGROVE, NC 27341)

When the North Carolina Pottery Center took over the planning and implementation of the long-running NC Potters Conference in 2020, the conference’s location shifted from Asheboro, NC, to just down the road in Seagrove, NC. There could not be a more fitting location than in Seagrove, NC - known as the Pottery Capital of the United States - for the NC Potters Conference. In his book on Wood-Fired Stoneware and Porcelain, Pennsylvania potter Jack Troy declares,

“If North America has a ‘pottery state’ it must be North Carolina. . . . There is probably no other state with such a highly developed pottery-consciousness.”

No other state possesses such a large, diverse, and continuous pottery heritage. Within a twenty-mile radius of Seagrove, there are around 60 family-operated pottery shops, and numerous others can be found across the state, most notably in the Catawba Valley and around Asheville and Penland in the mountains of western NC.

The Thompson arts & event Hall at Historic Luck’s Cannery

The majority of the conference programming will be held at the THOMPSON ARTS & EVENTS HALL At Historic Luck’s Cannery (Renovated in 2022) located inside the Seagrove city limits along Pottery Highway 705, just 0.7 miles from the conference host and organizer, the nonprofit North Carolina Pottery Center. There is ample parking at the Historic Luck’s Cannery. (See Travel & Lodging page.)