Dorothy Auman: Difference between revisions

▲Dorothy Auman is unsurprisingly known for winning a [[North Carolina Heritage Award]] in 1989 for her pottery (North Carolina Arts Council) because she had belonged to a potter family throughout her childhood (Bridges). (Interestingly enough, her father only owned a pottery business; he wasn't a potter himself, though her grandparents and cousin were avid potters (Brown).) As an adult, she married another person from a potter family ([[Walter Auman]]) and the two created a business, "The Seagrove Pottery," in which they sold their work (Bridges). Along with her personal creation of pottery, however, Auman was also interested in the origins of pottery (and traditional pottery) and spent time collecting and documenting it until she sold it in order to pay for life expenses (Bridges). Given this opportunity, the Mint Museum of Art bought her collection and used it to show pottery to the public (Bridges).