PocosInArts.org
Title
Pocosin Arts - North Carolina Premier Hand Craft Education Center, Columbia North Carolina - art retreats, art classes, lectures, non-profit, fundraising, art history north carolina, indian art
Contact
- Feather Phillips
- 201 Main Street, PO Box 690
- Columbia NC
- United States 27925
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- +1.25279745
Description
Pocosin Arts is sustained by earned income and grants from government agencies, private foundations and individual donors. All contributions are tax deductible.
In the riverside hamlet of Columbia on the Scuppernong, there a renaissance of art and culture shaping up on Main Street. One block from the Town Dock, aromas of jasmine and rosemary mingle together in Shoe String Alley, the brick-lined path to Pocosin Arts.
In the Main Street Gallery, fine art and folk craft are sold, the hand-made work of students, teachers and mentors. In the studio, exposed brick walls and high ceilings are the stage set for a hive of creativity. Wheels are turning — potters wheels and spinning wheels. Hands are muddied and moist with native Tyrrell County clay. Heads are bent over quilted squares, embellishing, in whispers, and hand-carved white cedar walking canes tap out the stories, today's and yesterday's, told by the people of the pocosin wetland region about the pocosin way of life.
