Gertrude Graham Smith
North Carolina

Porcelain clay, soda fired to cone 10
Functional
8"w x 6"l x 5"h

About the Teapot
A dancing teapot may look like it’s moving, perhaps it is swirling. Maybe it dances with mugs and other clay beings when I’m not watching and quickly moves back to where it thinks I might not notice it’s been moving around in the studio. When using to brew tea, warm the pot first with warm faucet water, do not subject to thermal shock!

About the Artist
Gertrude Graham Smith is a studio potter and teaching artist who singles fires her porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland, NC. Her grant awards include a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship in 2008/9, Regional Artist Project Grants in 2009/10 and 2012/13, and an NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant in 2020/21. She’s held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation and Penland School. Her teaching credits include workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School, the Harvard Ceramics Studio, and the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland. Her work is represented internationally, and collections include the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. She has been featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine. Her work is included in numerous publications, including Making Marks and Functional Pottery by Robin Hopper, Working with Clay by Susan Peterson, and the Lark series of 100 Teapots, Vases, etc. She has served on the Penland School of Craft and the NC Pottery Center boards.

*Teapots that are purchased will remain on display in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, through September 14, 2026.
After the show closes, teapots will be carefully packed and shipped by September 28, or they may be picked up at the gallery.

National Teapot Show XIII

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