Artist: Michael Hunt & Naomi Dalglish
We make our pots using primarily coarse, impure local materials. Our pots are thrown on a slow turning Korean-style kick wheel, and the large jars are made using a traditional Korean paddle and anvil technique. We then fire the pots in a large, Thai-shaped wood kiln. Through this collaboration with powerful materials and processes, we hope to create an environment in which pots can be born with a beauty beyond what is possible with our own hands. Beginning with the geologic processes that form the coarse red clay, passing through our hands and kiln, the life of these pots is continued through years of daily use.
MICHAEL'S EDUCATION
2002
Apprenticeship with Onggi potter Oh Hyang Jong in Kwangju, Korea
2000-2001
Resident Artist at North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC
1999
Traveled and researched traditional kilns and potteries in South East Asia
1996-1997
Core student at Penland School of Crafts for two years; Penland, NC
1993
Graduated from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida
Pottery program with Mike Lalone
NAOMI'S EDUCATION
2004
Two month concentration at Penland School of Crafts in kiln building
2002
Graduated from Earlham College with a BA. Majored in Art with a concentration in clay.
2000
Studied with a family of potters for two months in Tlayacapan, Mexico
WORK EXPERIENCE
2003-present
Built a Thai shaped wood kiln and studio in Bakersville, NC and continue to make pots and fire there
2002
Built one-chamber catenary arch wood kiln in Little Washington,Virginia
Built one-chamber catenary arch wood kiln in Scaranton, Pennsylvania
2001
Rebuilt Large tube shape kiln in Seagrove, NC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008
Taught an eight week workshop at Penland School with David Stuempfle; “Wild Clay, Precise Fire”
2007
Taught a week long class at John C. Campbell folk school
2005
Taught a two day workshop at Guilford College
2004
Taught a one-month kiln building and firing work shop in Keene, NY
Teaching assistant for three day onggi making workshop for Oh Hyang
Jong at Peters Valley, NJ
2003
One day Onggi demonstration at Penland School of Crafts
2002
Two onggi slide shows and lectures as a visiting artist at Penland School
Teaching assistant for Will Ruggles and Douglas Rankin for a two week class at Penland School of Crafts
2000-2001
Organized and taught wood firing workshops once a month for two years at North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC
2001
Instructor at Clay Center in Greensboro NC for three months
2000
Teaching assistant for Will Ruggles and Douglas Rankin for a two week kiln building worksop in Seagrove, NC
1994
Teaching assistant for Mackenzie Smith for two month workshop at
Penland School of Crafts
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2010
“North Carolina Clay Invitational” Frank; Chapel Hill, NC
“National Invitational Exhibition” Ohio University Wood Firing Symposium; Athens, OH
“Yunomi Invitational” AKAR; Iowa City, IO
2009
“North American Clay Invitational” Seward Park Clay Studio; Seattle, WA
“Potters Answer: Why Clay?” Mikhail Zakin Gallery; Demarest, NJ
“Hunt/Dalglish & Warren Mackenzie” AKAR Design Gallery; Iowa City, IA
“Smithsonian Craft Show” Smithsonian Building Museum; Washington, DC
“Oh Hyang Jong, Michael Hunt and Naomi Dalglish” Nanun Gallery; Seoul, Korea
2008
“Wood-fired Clay from the NC Mountains” Hand in Hand Gallery; Flat Rock, NC
“Compositions” Mudfire Gallery; Decatur, GA
“Ceramic Form and Function” Westmont College; Santa Barbara, CA
“Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object Invited Artists Exhibition.” Arrowmont; Gatlinburg, TN
“State of the Art 2008: National Biemmial Ceramics Invitational” Parkland Art Gallery; Champaign, IL
2007
"Collector’s Choice Gala” Green Hill Center; Greensboro, NC
“Hand Held Drinking Vessels” Main Street Art Gallery; Edwardsville, IL
“90 Teapots that pour” Xen Gallery; St. Louis, MO
“Mark Hewitt & North Carolina Potters” Akar; Iowa City, IA
“Bandana Pottery: Michael Hunt and Naomi Dalglish” The Clay Place; Pittsburgh, PA
“Potters of the Roan” Rocky Mount Arts Center; Rocky Mount, NC
“Wood-fired” The Signature Shop & Gallery; Atlanta, GA
“Yunomi Invitational” Akar; Iowa City, IA
2006
“The Simple Cup” Kobo; Seattle, WA
“Potters of the Roan” North Carolina Pottery Center; Seagrove, NC
“Reunion” Exhibition with Oh Hyang Jong, American Folk Gallery; Asheville, NC
“Michael Hunt, Naomi Dalglish, and Jerilyn Virden” The Art Cellar Gallery; Banner Elk, NC
“Wild Clay” American Folk Gallery; Asheville, NC
“Living Dishes: A New Generation of Functional Pots” Baltimore Clayworks; Baltimore, MD
2005
“30x5” Akar Gallery; Iowa City, IA
“Potters of the Roan” Article Gallery; Charlotte, NC
“The Potter’s Apprentice” Marywood College Gallery; Scranton, PA
“Making the Ordinary Extraordinary” Terra Incognito; Chicago, IL
Wood fired Pottery Show at Cedar Creek Gallery; Creedmoor, NC
2004
"Continuity-Tradition-Relationship a quest for beauty in everyday pots” Earth and Fire Gallery; Vienna , VA
“Wood-fire: Three Kilns” Vessel Gallery; Huntington Valley, PA
“Potters and their Mentors” American Folk Gallery; Asheville, NC
“Elevating the Utilitarian: Transforming the vessel through surface decoration” at Parkland Art Gallery in Illinois