09/30/2026
On Friday the 2nd —
// open house artist’s reception : 4 - 6 pm
// hors d’oeuvres by Linda
// w**e tasting curated by Peabody’s
three potters open a pop up show we’re calling Open Kiln. The kiln is the most private room in a potter’s life, where months of work either comes out right or doesn’t, and plenty of potters keep that door shut. Lisa Stinson and Ken Sedberry open theirs.
Lisa rarely brings anyone into her studio for a summer. This year she made an exception for Jeremiah Underwood, and not on a hunch — she had already seen how he works. On firing days that started at 6 am he showed up early and glad to be there, and that same discipline is all over the pots : every surface drawn by hand, nothing tossed off.
The same summer, Jeremiah apprenticed with Ken Sedberry : the old arrangement, long days in another potter’s studio, learning the way potters have always learned, by working beside someone who already knows. You can see it in the animals he draws straight onto the clay, an influence Jeremiah is quick to credit.
Ken knows exactly what that’s worth, because it was given to him. Years ago, when his own teacher, Norm Schulman, could no longer fire a kiln of his own, Ken loaded Norm’s pots into his and invited him to help fire them
Jeremiah was born on Hickory Nut Gap Farm, just outside Asheville, and grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Lawndale, where the day starts before the sun and the work doesn’t care how you feel about it. His pieces for this show are still making their way through the kiln, so nobody has seen them finished yet, us included.
