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THE GALLERY
The mission of Pocosin Arts is connecting culture to the environment through the arts.  The exhibits in the Pocosin Arts Gallery reflect this mission, with a permanent display of the traditional arts and folk craft of the people of the pocosin region of eastern North Carolina.  The gallery also features temporary exhibits, often organized by theme, featuring the current work of Pocosin Arts program participants, teachers, and other regional artists whose work exemplifies our mission.  Its about place...

Currently on Display:

BLING! A Jewelry Exhibit
February 5th through March 13, 2010

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Featuring work by the participants and instructors
of Pocosin Arts jewelry and metals workshops and
members of the Pocosin Arts Metals Guild including:

Hilary Anderson 
Bruce Barnett 
Andy Bartley
Valda Belyeu 
Dianne Cinkovich 
Stan Harmon 
Joanne Lang 
Tim Lazure
Roberta Miller
Kathryn Osgood
Feather Phillips
Annemarie Pomp
Marlene True
Ron Vick
Lin Wanner-Hogan

Many of the works in the exhibit are for sale.







Previous Exhibits:

FIBER AND WOOD
Summer of 2009

Pocosin Arts presents an exhibit celebrating the artistic mediums of wood and fiber.  These materials are spun, woven, knitted, dyed, embellished, stitched, formed, pressed, sawed, carved, sanded, in some way transformed by the artists featured in Fiber and Wood.  Fiber and wood has become shawls and scarves, vessels, furniture, decoys, guitars and flutes, clothing, weavings, collages, toys, baskets, sculpture, and more

Participating Artists:

C.J.Brickhouse - Outdoor log furniture
Michal Brown -
Fine custom furniture
Mark & Karen Clough - Woven chair mat
William Davenport - Guitars
Dan DiCaprio/Sonya Yong James - Fiber/wood sculpture
Otto Florchutz - Replica working decoys
Teddi Forsyth - Pine Needle Baskets
Ray Harrell - Wood turned vessels
Elmo Hassel - Wood Bird Feeders
Celia Hewett-Hook - Knitted Shawls & Scarves
Phil Hewett - Native American style wood flutes
Ben Hobbs - Regional fine reproduction furniture.
J. Wallace Hobbs - Traditional wooden toys
Joyce Hobbs - Baskets
Emily Soldin Howard - Fiber/textile Art
September Krueger - Woven chasuble, textile wall hanging
Tim Lazure - Metal/wood chest
Carol Soo Lee - Quilted pot-holder
Suzanne Martin - handmade paper weavings
David Patrick - Wood & canvas decoys
Nathaniel Presley - Turtle Stools
Lottie Roughton - Knitted hats/scarves
Rick Smith - miniature wood ducks

Photos of some of the work in the exhibit are to the right.

Permanent Collection

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Reproduction Native American Pottery by Carol Soo Lee and Artifacts


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Menhaden Boat by Charles Madden of Moorehead, NC, permanent collection.


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Huichol Yarn Painting and Prayer Bowl, unknown artists.


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Pocosin Arts Donation Box by Roy Smith of Columbia, NC, permanent collection.

Come visit, there's more!....

In addition the the permanent collection and the featured exhibit, the Pocosin Arts Gallery also carries a variety of books by local writers or about the area.  The Carolina Childhood Series from Sweet Bay Tree Books is available, along with note cards, postcards and Homemade Pocosin Jam, Finger Pickin' Good, the compact disk of roots music recorded live locally.


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Work by September Krueger and Ray Harrell

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Flutes by Phil Hewett

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Work by Emily Soldin Howard and C.J. Brickhouse

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Mutation V by Dan DiCaprio and Sonya Yong James

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Pine Needle Baskets by Teddi Forsyth
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Ducks by Rick Smith

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Vessel by Ray Harrell

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Decoys by Otto Florschutz

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Chest by Tim Lazure

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Scarves by Celia Hewett-Hook

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Dressing  Table by Ben Hobbs

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Turtle Stools by Nathaniel Presley

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Guitars by William (Bill) Davenport

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Toys and Baskets by J. Wallace and Joyce Hobbs

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Decoys by David Patrick

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Handmade Paper and Books by Suzanne Martin

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Chasuble by September Krueger







In addition to local and regional art and craft, Pocosin Arts offers fair trade handmade gift items from Ten Thousand Villages.  These items are resourcefully made from recycled and natural materials by creative peoples from all over the world.  

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P.O. Box 690
Columbia, NC 27925
phone (252) 796-2787 · fax (252) 796-1685
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