Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Feb 10, 2012, 7:34 pm
Vase by Bruce Gholson, Seagrove, North CarolinaWe are filling our work tables with vases. Daffodils are in strong bloom, a bit early this year.  Daffie Days is around the corner on March 30- April 1 and after glazing the vases, we plan a kiln load of Moka and shino glazed pottery for the Celebratio...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Feb 6, 2012, 11:30 am
Vase by Samantha Henneke (18"x4")- Winner of Honorable Mention on Vasefinder 2012 The Vase Both Bruce and I have focused many hours at the wheel in our studio, designing different variations of the vase.  There are numerous approaches and there is an incredible historic precedence in the explorati...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jan 31, 2012, 11:31 am
A couple of years I purchased a pot full of these interesting plants and separated them into their own individual pot.  I am going to guess at the time that they were probably 3-4 years old. I have owned a few in the past, but managed to over water them. When lithops are over watered they explode. ...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jan 11, 2012, 4:35 pm
Happy New Year! Our pottery wheels have yet to turn, but we have been actively working in other areas of our lives.  Enjoying a little of our hobbies, catching up on our domestic life, organizing, and cooking. A few detailed activities: cutting scrub trees down around our pond and yellow cottage, p...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 21, 2011, 12:15 pm
Bruce and Max peaking into the kiln Maxwell and Bruce are peaking into the kiln. At this stage the kiln is hot and slowly taking the bricks off the door helps cool it down so we can unload. If we didn't do this, the kiln would probably not be ready to unload for another day, on top of the 40 hour w...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 16, 2011, 7:44 pm
All of the pots are unloaded and out of the kiln. We transported them down to our studio. The troops are out in full force tonight polishing up the pottery. Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn we will be setting up the pieces in our studio. More pictures soon. Cheers!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 16, 2011, 11:50 am
Maxwell and Bruce taking a peak at the results of the firing. We are slowly unbricking the door, to let the hot air out. Stay Tuned for the "After" picture later today.
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 14, 2011, 1:47 pm
Bruce preparing a bit of glaze with MaxwellThe kiln is full and firing as I write this.  We are a bit ahead of our usual firing schedule which is a good thing because it means (cross your fingers) that we will be able to turn it off at a decent hour this evening. We have been steadily glazing our ...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 10, 2011, 10:55 am
Samantha is matching different shaped thrown knobs to her covered jarsLast weekend and up until this past Tuesday we were finishing our pottery for our upcoming kiln opening on Saturday December 17th. These images are a bit behind, but we have been focused on moving these pieces through the bisquing...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 4, 2011, 8:56 am
Bruce throwing a lid to a covered jarWe have been focused at the wheel this last week. A great place to be.  We are cutting it close, but I think we will make our deadline, we usually do one way or another. We have a lot of pots to finish up today and probably tomorrow, then some quick sun drying s...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 1, 2011, 3:56 pm
We are in our last day of throwing. Maxwell has just about had it. All work for Bruce and Samantha makes us very dull companions.  Maxwell is letting Bruce know that he needs his time too!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Dec 1, 2011, 3:56 pm
We are in our last day of throwing. Maxwell has just about had it. All work for Bruce and Samantha makes us very dull companions.  Maxwell is letting Bruce know that he needs his time too!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Nov 27, 2011, 10:58 am
We are back at it in the studio this past week. We have planned one last hurrah for the year 2011. We will have a kiln opening on December 17 with as many pieces as we can make during this past week and the next four days. We have covered jars, mugs, pitchers, and mushroom jars in the works right no...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Oct 30, 2011, 7:32 pm
This ad appeared in the Carolina Arts on page 15 of their online newspaperThe Celebration of Seagrove Potters staring the Seagrove PottersThe weekend before ThanksgivingLuck's Cannery on Pottery Highway around a mile from the town of SeagroveSee you there On Friday evening November 18 the Gala begin...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Oct 20, 2011, 11:09 am
Bruce Gholson, Gloria Henneke, Samantha Henneke, Ed Henneke at our exhibition in the Nature Art GalleryThere still is time to go see the show in Raleigh!  Our exhibition will be up until October 30, 2011. It was like a family reunion for us Friday evening at our opening in the Nature Art Gallery. T...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Oct 11, 2011, 10:46 am
Pot Hop and Jam, "it's teamwork"Friday morning before we left for our opening at the Natural Science Museum in Raleigh, we sat around the table busy as bees putting stamps and labels onto our Pot Hop and Jam postcards.  We hustled them down to the post office, which was a good thing, because we lat...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Oct 5, 2011, 8:28 am
Insect plate by Samantha HennekeWe delivered our work yesterday to the Museum of Natural Sciences. Around 60 pieces will be on exhibit during the month of October in the Nature Art Gallery. The Nature Art Gallery is located on the mezzanine level in the Museum Store. We love this museum. It is worth...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Sep 29, 2011, 1:33 pm
We are glazing for two more days and then we will begin to get our work all together for our exhibition that opens on October 7 (opening time is 6:30-8:30) in the Nature Art Gallery at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. We will post images soon.Yesterday, when researching factoids for my...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Sep 22, 2011, 2:30 pm
From Left to Right :  Bulldog Pottery, McCanless Pottery (platter), Wyndham and Brookhaven Pottery, Uwharrie Crystalline, Dover Pottery, Pottery By Frank Neef, and Eck McCanless PotteryCrystalline Potters of Seagrove September 24, 2011, Saturday, 10am-4pm at the North Carolina Pottery Center ...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Sep 18, 2011, 6:29 pm
Is it already a whole week ago that we were in Charlotte at the Mint Museum's Potters Market? Well if everything works out we will be back at the Mint this Tuesday to hear a talk about the new ceramics exhibition that is on display at the Mint Museum on Randolph. During the year (fall and winter) th...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Sep 9, 2011, 8:02 am
We are all packed up and ready to go. Well, just about all ready. We are more ready today than usual. There is always a big heave ho at the very end to get everything into the van and to make sure we remember all the gear that will be needed to set up for a pottery event. The Potters Market presente...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Sep 4, 2011, 2:35 pm
The first annual Mountain Cousins was a very gratifying weekend for Bruce and I.  It was wonderful to escape the heat for an extremely pleasant weekend on top of a Mountain ridge with the Michael, Stacey, George, Evelyn, Lillian, Jack, and General Patton. I (Samantha) grew up in Blacksburg, Virgini...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 25, 2011, 10:03 am
We are just about all ready for our road trip to Michael Kline's Pottery in Bakersville.  A bit more packing and clothes collecting and then we are headed to the NC Mountains.  Bruce is on the phone right now with Michael, making sure that we have everything packed up. We need to grab our box of s...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 20, 2011, 10:35 am
 We are just about finished with our glazing, well at least to this point.  We will pick up where we left off when we get back from Michael's next week.  The Potters Market Invitational will be right around the corner!  Above is a plate that I have decorated with a winged insect.  This is a lit...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 19, 2011, 10:59 am
We are excited to join our "Clay Cousin" Michael Kline next week at his pottery studio in Bakersville, NC.  We will have a fresh group of Moka and other glazed pottery to pack up and bring to his place.   All of us have had so much fun the past three years with the event "Cousins in Clay" here at ...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 8, 2011, 10:09 am
During the last half of July, Bruce revisited a pitcher form that we have dubbed - "the barrel pitcher".  He has made a couple of series of these since we have been living on our property here in Seagrove- how time flies.  We need a group of days in the studio uninterrupted for a complex form like...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 6, 2011, 11:18 am
Bruce is throwing the top part to his barrel pitcher form      This summer we have been busy at work, changing our schedule around a little bit.  We are happy to announce that since "Cousins in Clay" in May, we have been successful in keeping up an exercise routine.  I am spending my mornings i...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Aug 4, 2011, 9:02 pm
Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho! We are jamming in the studio! Listening to The Rookie by Scott Sigler, making lots of pots and feeling good.  I think we have made a few strides this past month and looking forward to figuring out how to use our new wooden molds for rectangle and square dishes, glazing new til...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 29, 2011, 5:46 pm
Tomorrow and Sunday, July 30 and 31, 2011 the Hilltown6 Pottery Tour takes place in Massachusetts. Two of the potters that are part of this tour are our D.C. Pot Hop and Jam buddies, Mark Shapiro and Sam Taylor.  This year we will meet up again with Mark and Sam at a home sale in Washington D.C.,...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 20, 2011, 10:23 am
We are gearing up for the upcoming Seagrove Potters' event that takes place this November 18-20, 2011. We have selected one of Bruce's flask forms for the silent auction that will take place on Saturday afternoon at the "Celebration of Seagrove Potters".  The Celebration takes place at the Luck's ...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 16, 2011, 4:52 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 15, 2011, 4:46 pm
 After a rain in the garden
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 14, 2011, 4:46 pm
Papunia Pulcherrima (Green Tree Snail Shell) on display at the Lora Robins Gallery in Richmond. On the campus of the University of Richmond. As the University's natural sciences and decorative arts museum, the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, with its collections of natural objects, cultu...
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 13, 2011, 4:42 pm
Image by Samantha Henneke of Bulldog Pottery
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 12, 2011, 4:42 pm
 Vanadinite for the Lora Robins Gallery in Richmond, Virginia
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 11, 2011, 4:40 pm
We received our Heirloom Gardner in the mail. Beautiful magazine. The folks that put this out is Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds. Great seed catalog too!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 10, 2011, 4:45 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 9, 2011, 5:08 pm
This mineral is in the collection of Lora Robbins Gallery of Design from Nature, at the University of Richmond, in Richmond Virginia.
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 8, 2011, 4:57 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 7, 2011, 4:56 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 6, 2011, 5:00 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 5, 2011, 4:45 pm
On August 26 and 27, 2011 we will over and up in the mountains at Michael Kline's Pottery studio. We will be bringing lots of our Moka glazed pottery that we are presently working on in the studio!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 4, 2011, 11:10 am
Michael Kline's pottery vaseHappy July fourth!
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 3, 2011, 4:46 pm
This fossil is in the collection of Lora Robbins Gallery of Design from Nature, at the University of Richmond, in Richmond Virginia.
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 2, 2011, 4:45 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jul 1, 2011, 5:04 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jun 30, 2011, 4:55 pm
One of our most favorite podcast stories to listen too. We can't wait until the next episode!Mike Bennett Underwood and Flinch. You can download it from itunes.
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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jun 29, 2011, 4:39 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jun 28, 2011, 5:15 pm

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Samantha Henneke posted an article on Around and About with Bulldog Pottery - Jun 27, 2011, 4:45 pm
This plate is part of the "Asthetic Ambitions" Exhibition in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature at the University of Richmond. This exhibition will be on view at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC this fall.
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