Gertrude Graham "Gay" Smith (NC), Porcelain Candlestick

Contemporary, soda-fired wheel thrown and sculpted porcelain in faceted form with black glaze and gilt accents, unsigned.

9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. diameter

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

Gay Smith is a studio potter and teaching artist who single fires her porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland, North Carolina. Her grant awards include a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship in 2008/9, and Regional Artist Project Grants in 2009/10 and 2012/13, and an NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant in 2020/21. She’s held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation and the Penland School of Craft. Her teaching credits include workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, the Harvard Ceramics Studio, and the EcoVillage Findhorn in Northern Scotland. Her work is represented internationally, and collections include the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. Her and her work have been featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine and numerous publications including Making Marks and Functional Pottery by Robin Hopper, Working with Clay by Susan Peterson, and the Lark series 100 Teapots, Vases, etc.. She has served on the boards of Penland School of Craft and the NC Pottery Center.

With wax residue to interior capital; otherwise good estate condition.