
Highwater: Ceramics from the Gail & Brian McCarthy Collection
Forty-five years of Highwater Clays’ impact distilled into a ceramics survey of stoneware and porcelain, wheel thrown vessels, sculptural forms, and glazes that map Western North Carolina’s studio pottery community.
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