ZEDITH TEAGUE, Robbins,
North Carolina
Making pots over 44 years on same site as father before her. Pots fired in 200 cubic feet oil fired kiln. "Turns" most of the ware herself, with help of an occasional apprentice. Husband stacks kiln, "burns" c/2-6 no lead. Interest in young potters led her to teaching a 9 week course in production pottery at a neighboring community college. Full of no-nonsense advice. "When black smoke's coming out the top of the kiln that's stupid. The kiln's not using that heat. Why put all your stuff up the chimney?" "I can take 6 pounds of mud and do what most can do with 8. Clay's too hard to dig and work up to leave it all in one pot." "In order to be a good potter I think you got to be just as ornery as the dickens. If you ain't, and ain't as cantankerous as they come, someone is going to come and change you and you're going to be turnin' out stuff that inside you don't want to make."
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