Thousands of visitors are expected on Dillsboro’s Front Street this Saturday (Nov. 2) for the ninth annual Western North Carolina Pottery Festival.
“The festival has more potters from more places than any show in the Southeast,” said co-organizer Joe Frank McKee of Tree House Pottery.
The event runs from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., rain or shine.
Some 42 master potters will show their work (available for purchase) and educational demonstrations will line the street. This year’s featured potter is internationally known Gay Smith of Bakersville, who specializes in single-firing porcelain ware in a soda kiln.
The festival, which has now developed a nationwide reputation, began almost a decade ago when McKee said “let’s do a pottery festival.”
McKee said the town allowed him to stage the event, which had 21 potters that first year. Attendance has grown each year since, said co-organizer Travis Berning, also of Tree House. The event is now Dillsboro’s largest annual draw, he said.
“Now people ask us
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