ROCK HILL, S.C. - This year's Holiday Pottery Sale will showcase the artistic talents of Winthrop students and faculty – including featured artist Jennifer Mecca – and offer shoppers some original ideas for holiday presents.
The 20th Annual Holiday Pottery Sale, scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, from noon-6 p.m. in Rutledge Building G-10, will feature a wide variety of functional pottery pieces crafted by students and faculty, as well as decorative vessels and ceramic sculptures. The sale will include pieces by studio potter Mecca, adjunct ceramics lecturer at Winthrop. A resident of York, S.C., Mecca earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
Proceeds from this year's pottery sale will pay for visiting artists, tools and additional items needed in the pottery studio, said sale creator Jim Connell, professor of ceramics.
The 20th Annual Holiday Pottery Sale is listed in the City of Rock Hill's ChristmasVille lineup of events.
For more information about the sale, contact the College of Visual and Performing Arts at 803/323-2323.