The Pottery House at Terra is now the Family Pottery Studio. The gallery has been moved to the Muse Gallery and Coffee Shop. You can still visit the Family Pottery Studio. There is a viewing area where you can watch artists work, the Terrarium and a pending Terra Museum.
 
Did you know that the pottery building is one of the oldest structures at Terra? In the beginning, it was a pottery studio, glass studio, and gallery. The glass studio was actually outside of the building and there were only three bluebird makers. The gallery sold both glass and pottery. Today, the Pottery House contains both a pottery gallery and studio.
 
  A very special room, called the terrarium, can be found just inside and to the right of the front door. The terrarium is a wonderful cave-like room filled with a fountain, a throne, stained glass windows, and Rita’s “Endangered Species from Other Worlds”.
Most of the artwork found in the gallery was created by Terran artists. Most of Terra’s pottery is fired to a very high temperature, which makes it both beautiful and durable. Some of the artwork is raku glazed and fired. The raku process was originally developed in Japan and is widely used in the U.S. today. A raku firing can produce exquisite combinations of copper, gold, purple, green, and blue.    
     
John's chicken driving car is ready for the grounds.
       
     
Daisy's Vase  
 
Rita's garden globe holder
Mary's raku vase
   
Maura's vessels
 
Angel Light
Marilyn's birdhouse
Reba's bikini pig
We currently showcase three potters/sculptors who work outside of Terra. Robert and Karyl Hawkins produce wonderful thrown vessels with braided and twisted coils of clay. Nancy Paddock creates fanciful “worry birds”, clocks, and bowls. Janet Donnangelo makes wonderful thrown vessels with life-like foliage that sprouts from its edges. Ingrid Gipson creates face sculptures that are physical examples of mythological and religious archetypes.    
               
Hawkins' vase
 
Nancy's Clock  
Janet's vessels
Ingrid's Face Sculpture
 
    Terra’s Pottery House also offers many other items created by Arkansas artisans. We have several artists who work in glass. Ron Mynatt produces beautiful hot glass vases, perfume bottles, bowls, and paperweights. Anita Heitmanek and Cheri Bohn both work in stained glass. Anita produces wonderful earrings, necklaces, and sun catchers. Cheri creates sculptures that incorporate stained glass wings and naturally shaped tree branches. Kay Berkley makes fused glass wind chimes and earrings. Sara and Buz Piene assemble amazing glass kaleidoscopes.
Ron's hot glass bowl    
           
   
     
Cheri's sculpture
Anita's ornament
Kay's suncatcher
 
 
Anita's butterfly
Peines' kaleidoscope
Peines' lamp
 
We have several artists that create jewelry out of other materials. David Marson creates intricately inlaid wooden earrings and barrettes. Jeff and Judy Goodwin make jewelry out of layers of colored porcelain and Gayla Gerbig makes beautiful beaded earrings.    
   
  Jeff and Judys' earrings
Gayla's earrings
David's earrings
 
  We have one metal artist, Mark Mansell, who works in steel and sometimes assembles stone and steel creatures. We also have a card designer, Tina Oppenheimer.  
             
Mark's welcome plaque
       
Mark's critter        
Tina's Card
Tina's card
 
  As you can see, creativity abounds at the Pottery House. If you would like to see what happens "behind the scenes", you can watch our artists at work in the demonstration area. You might even catch Rita making one of her famous "Terrans”. Stop by the pottery building on your next trip to Terra. We promise you won’t be disappointed.
                         
           
Rita at work in the studio
     
           
Maura and John peek in the kiln
   
   
Maura with her hand teapot
               
           
John with one of his ducks
 
       
Mary carving an illuminary
     
The Showroom
      Reba creating a frog  
               
     
Ready for a bisque firing
   
   
  The Showroom
   
The Showroom

The pottery gallery has relocated to the Otis Zark Restaurant building next to the pond. It is now called the Muse Gallery and Coffee Shop. We are open 10 - 5, 7 days a week. You can still visit the Terrarium (our man-made cave) and watch pottery demonstrations in the Family Pottery Studio.

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