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Southern Folk Pottery by: Dwayne Crocker
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Dwayne L. Crocker

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Dwayne grew up at the foothills of the Northeast Georgia 
Mountains  in Lula  Ga.

In 1975 at the age of 16, he started working
after school at H. A. Wilson Pottery. Beating the clay over a
wire and
setting and  unloading the pottery from the wood burning kiln really enthused
him. He would  always watch, pick up tips and pieces of advice as the Wilson’s
and others would  turn pots on the potters wheel. His love of clay goes way back
to when he was  knee high. He was always making things out of clay, from school
projects to mud  pies.

A lot  of days Dwayne would stay after work and play
around on the wheel and would turn  small cactus bowls. When he got good enough,
after turning what seemed liked  thousands, they started selling them and paying
him for each one he set off the  wheel. Dwayne worked at Wilson's until 1979 and
then went to work turning  garden ware for a large pottery plant in Gillsville
Ga. After getting married  in 1983 he moved from Lula to Gillsville.

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In 1990, in an old barn behind his house he started
turning pots and making glazed pieces such as face jugs, roosters, and  pigs.


What started as a hobby  grew until 1999 when he built his shop thus
opening --- Crocker Folk Pottery --- in Gillsville Ga. Dwayne now works full
time in his shop, sometimes up to 12 to  14 hours a day.

He strives on the traditions of old… starting from the
ground up, using Georgia red clay, mixing glazes,
to straining ashes for 
his glazes. He tries the traditions of old by using time honored methods,
concepts, tools (a straw and a nail) and designs, as the old  timers before him.
Each piece of Dwayne's pottery is crafted by hand using  unique designs to
produce the highest quality of folk pottery. He combines the  traditions of old
with a breath of fresh air from whimsical faces, silly looking  jugs, snakes,
and roosters, using glazes combining the old with the new while still
maintaining the authenticity of potters who came before him.

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Dwayne loves what he’s doing. He’s eternally thankful to
God for giving him the talent to do something he  loves..


Dwayne’s goal is to keep the tradition of folk pottery alive in
the  hearts and homes of people for generations to come.

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