- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lin Craven: Folk Pottery
- Creator:
- Craven, Lin
- Contributor to Resource:
- Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Date of Original:
- 2002/2006
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Lin Craven makes a ring jug and discusses why she became a potter.
Video recording of Georgia folk artist Lin Craven making a ring jug and discussing why she became a potter. The video begins with a view of Craven's hands working clay on a potters' wheel. She discusses the ring jug and its uses. She then states that she believes that folk pottery is done by potters without formal training. Craven notes that potter Lanier Meaders married her cousin. Craven tells a story in which Meaders showed her an "ugly jug" as a child, and she decided then to become a potter as an adult so she could make a "pretty jug." She then states that she is not create mass-produced works. Finally, she notes that she does not create pottery for the money, but she does it because she enjoys the work. Throughout the interview, various pieces of her pottery are shown. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/folk-pottery/craven__lynn_t1/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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