Seagrove is the home of Jugtown, where my good friend Nancy Sweezy, lived and worked in the 1970's before moving back to Massachusetts. She and I met and together founded Refugee Arts Group in 1985 or so. Jugtown is one of the best-loved and highly regarded potteries in the area, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Due to the prominence of it and other traditional potteries where the craft of making functional earthenware has been handed down from generation to generation, art students and others moved to the area, establishing their own potteries. Now home to over 100 working potteries, the Seagrove area (with neighboring towns) can and does lay claim to being the "handmade pottery capital of the United States."
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| The gift shop at Jugtown: this large salt-glaze pot was formed by Vernon Owens. |
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