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2010 Centerpiece Sales
This year the Power of the Purse vases will be created by talented local female artists including Leah Leitson, Courtney Martin, Suze Lindsay and Laurey Masterton. Each handmade vase is slightly different and will be filled with a stunning custom arrangement by the designers at Blossoms at Biltmore Park.
Each centerpiece will be for sale with the proceeds benefitting The Women's Fund. Information including prices and purchase instructions will be posted with each vase.
Leah Leitson
Leah Leitson is head of the Art Department and teaches ceramics full time at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. She received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1996, and her undergraduate B.F.A. in ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, New York, in 1984. Leah works exclusively in porcelain. Her work is predominantly inspired by the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century decorative arts, particularly utilitarian table wares and Sevres porcelain as well as being inspired by plant forms in nature. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Suze Lindsay
Suze Lindsay and Kent Mclaughlin own and operate Fork Mountain Pottery. Their studio represents two distinctive styles, each potter approaching and interpreting their ideas about utilitarian wares. Suze's stoneware pots subtly suggest human form and character as she manipulates her shapes by altering them after they are thrown. An integral part of her work includes using surface decoration to enhance form by patterning and painting slips and glazes for firing in the salt kiln. She has a passion for working with her hands, and for making pots for everyday use that are well-crafted and a pleasure to use.
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Courtney Martin
Courtney Erin Martin was raised in New York and learned to make pots while attending the University of New Mexico where she obtained a BFA in ceramics. Since college, she has studied with many talented potters from all over the world. Courtney exhibits her work regularly with several galleries and is represented in many private collections. In 2006 she was awarded the Regional Artists Project Grant through a collaboration of arts councils in Western North Carolina. Using throwing and handbuilding techniques and her own glazes, her pots are lively and fun to use.
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Laurie Masterson
Laurey Masterton is the proprietor of Laurey's (catering and gourmet comfort food) on Biltmore Avenue. After collecting Blenko Glass for a years and dreaming about being a glassblower "when she retires," Laurey finally found time to take a class at the Corning Studio of Glass and has been playing with the craft for about 4 years. The pieces for The Power of the Purse are the result of her current exploration of movement and color and shape. Inspired by spring colors, growing things and classic forms, these vases were made specifically with this event in mind and are the latest step toward her desire to incorporate craft and art, movement and shape, light and color into her work.
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