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Sandy Batton’s Pitcher (left) and Small Ram Vase are among the items he will show at the Piedmont Craftsmen’s Fair at Benton Convention Center.

Craftsmen pouring in: The 45th annual fair will give guild members an enviable chance to show their work to thousands

Potters Ann and Alex "Sandy" Batton live in Asheville, widely known as a hotbed of contemporary crafts. Thanks to their skills and industriousness, they've been able to make a living in recent years exclusively through sales of their functional and decorative ceramic pieces.

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Oct. 26, 2008

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Oct. 12, 2008

• A Grand Reign in Spain
• Focus on Arts: Historic exhibition at Duke brings to light a trove of works by artists working under the patronage of a 17th-century king

Sept. 28, 2008

• A Guiding Light Goes Out

Aug. 24, 2008

• Focus on Arts: Five for the Show

Aug. 10, 2008

• Nature As Muse and Mentor: Nine artists with N.C. connections share a theme in a major new show at the Green Hill Center in Greensboro

July 27, 2008

• Behind the Masks

July 13, 2008

• Shoestring Show Place

June 22, 2008

• Strong and Cool: Portraits in retrospective at Duke depict beautiful, confident black Americans

June 8, 2008

• Gallery dwarfs exhibit

June 5, 2008

• Technology: Study finds most people digital-ready

May 25, 2008

• Perspectives on Portraits: Work by North Carolina painters, photographers and sculptors spotlighted in Green Hill Center's 'Facing South' exhibition

April 6, 2008

• A Powerful Printmaker: Elizabeth Catlett and Maya Angelou will have a conversation surrounded by a show of Catlett's work at Delta Arts Center

March 30, 2008

• An Arts-and-Letters Icon Poet and publisher Jonathan Williams, who died in March, captured, reflected the best of an unusually vibrant creative era

March 23, 2008

• Design, Art, Technology Fourth annual Triad symposium, on the UNCG campus, will focus on innovation and collaboration in a changing world

March 16, 2008

• Confronting Harlequins Hawthorne Gallery opens in new space with a provocative exhibition of 33 mixed-media works by a local legend

Feb. 24, 2008

• Plainly Outstanding Works by unschooled African American artists present an astonishing display of vision, ingenuity and energy

Feb. 17, 2008

• Of Fame and Phantasms Trade Street gallery showing works about pop-culture icons; WFU teacher's intriguing studies are on exhibit in High Point

Feb. 10, 2008

• A Dazzling Display Green Hill Center's exhibition of works by N.C. printmakers is monumental in size, comprehensive in coverage of the medium

Feb. 3, 2008

• Pulling No Punches Forceful, unsettling exhibition at WhiteSpace Gallery confronts 'racism, oppression and privilege' head-on

Jan. 27, 2008

• Contrasting Moods Two-man show at Wake Forest presents striking differences in the colors they chose for their figural expressionistic works

Jan. 20, 2008

• Show Instead of Tell Show of works by teachers at city's five colleges and universities worth a visit to two of the galleries in the Sawtooth Building

Jan. 13, 2008

• Creation to Revelation Collection of 60 religious works by folk and outsider artists make for interesting viewing at Hickory Museum of Art

Jan. 6, 2008

• Photographic Interaction Married couple explore relationships, mortality, vulnerability in an engaging exhibition of their works at a downtown gallery

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