Charles Counts
Chris Pickett creates functional tablewares out of slab-built white stoneware. His vessels exhibit a fullness of form and a pillow-like quality meant to evoke interaction and suggest an experience beyond the obvious ...
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- Biography
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Chris Pickett creates functional tablewares out of slab-built white stoneware. His vessels exhibit a fullness of form and a pillow-like quality meant to evoke interaction and suggest an experience beyond the obvious function of the form.
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1957-1958
Summers, Apprenticeship Training, Pond Farm, Guerneville, California
1988-1992Potter in Residence, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
- Primary Work Experience
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United States Army
-—University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee
-—Dalton State College, Dalton, Georgia
1958-1962Studio potter, Knoxville, Tennessee
1972-2000University of Maiduguri, Zaria, Borno State, Nigeria
Other
- Public Collections
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Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
Georgia State Art Collection, quilts and pottery
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina
- Bibliography
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Anonymous. The Life and Works of Charles Count (1934-2000). Asheville, NC: Southern Highland Craft Guild, 2010.
Barker, Garry. The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
Brady, James. “Charles Counts (1934-2000).” New Georgia Encyclopedia, January 12, 2016.
Bullard,Helen. Crafts and Craftsmen of the Tennessee Mountains. Fall Church, VA: The Summit Press Ltd., 1976.
Counts, Charles. Common Clay. Anderson, SC: Droke House/Hallux, 1971.
______________. Pottery workshop: A Study in the Making of Pottery from Idea to Finished Form. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1976/1976.
_____________. “Staying and Leaving.” Appalachian Heritage 5, no. 3 (1977).
_____________. “A Handful of Clay: A Memoir on Oak Ridge.” Studio Potter (December 1993).
_____________. Encouraging American Craftsmen: Report of the Interagency Crafts Committee. Washington, DC, 1972.
Counts, Charles and Bill Haddox. Common Clay. Oviedo, Fla: Gentle Breeze Publishers, 2002.
Counts, Charles, Garry Barker, Nancy Darrell, and Nikki Josheff. The Life and Works of Charles Counts: (1934-2000). Asheville, NC: Southern Highland Craft Guild, 2010.
Koplos, Janet and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
Ramsey, Bets and T. Fred Miller. “Handmade Quilts For Sale.” Appalachian Heritage 3, no. 2 (1975).
Schwarz, Dean and Geraldine Schwarz. Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Account. Decorah, IA: South Bear Press, 2007.
Shaw, Robert. American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1789-2007. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 2014.
Sweezy, Nancy. Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill Books, 1994.
Ceramics Monthly 31 (1983).
Zaleski, Anita. Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History (Wormsloe Foundation Publication Series). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Charles Counts, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/charles-counts
Objects
Collections
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Asheville, North Carolina
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Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Asheville, North Carolina
