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Ever wonder what that
pottery is on the third floor of the
General Studies building, or
what all the clay on the floor of
the basement in GS near the
vending machines is from? Penn
State Mont Alto is home to the
Nicodemus Center for Ceramic
Studies. Founded in 1994, its
purpose is to preserve, collect,
exhibit and interpret the historic
folk pottery of the Cumberland/
Shenandoah Valley region.
The center serves as part of an
on-campus cultural arts program.
Officials of the Nicodemus
Jacob Kimler of
Smithsburg, Md.,
and Samuel Bell
and Sons,
Strasburg, Va.,
were on display.
Each fall works
created by
pottery class and
members of the
pottery cooper-
ative are
people of the Waynesboro area.
James Smith,
executive
director of the
center,” ‘says,
€a mpus
exhibition and
studio programs,
the Nicodemus
Center offers
students, faculty,
during the fall semester and will
feature works of the Mont Alto
Pottery Cooperative followed by
a pottery sale at the end of the
semester.
When open, gallery hours are
10am — 4pm M-F. The next
pottery class will run from June
14 through July 7, meeting on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1
to 4. For the fall semester, classes
return to Wednesday evenings,
first session runs from September
7 through October 26 and the
second session from November
featured, | explor> the 2 through December 21.
Center have developed apottery ollowed byasale | area’s rich The cost of the class is $100
Sodio, exhibit gallery, BROW. of the axtibied | tradition of for center members and college
studio and office space and works. pottery making faculty, staff and students with a
recently organized a pottery
: The center is : : h and the creative $25 fee for materials. All
cooperative. Pottery instructor Tom McFarland, seated, demonstrates how : ; bes
Cri named for the late > : potential this participants are allowed access
The first exhibit in the gallery, . to trim the base of an unfired bowl on a potter’s wheel to a os ; :
: Emma Geiser ; . ; tradition pro- to the pottery studio outside
Room 302 of General Studies, Nicodemus, who Tecent ceranties class, Standing, clockwise fo MoFarland, are vides to local class time. Students interested in
i : ? students Jerry Kowallis, Fayetteville, Kristine Robson oe : > "
opened in October 2003 and | oyiched Ren Sad ? : and aspiring taking the class should contact
featured objects in the center’s
permanent collection. Works
made at the potteries of John
Bell and . his sons of
frew Museum and
its collection of
Bell family potte
as a bequest to the
‘Waynesboro, Amber Baughman, Chambersburg (partially
Levick, Waynesboro.
The next
exhibit will open
James Smith at jms48@psu.edu.
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