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Co-founder Pat Oakley, and
daughter Lisa Oakley, a glass-blower,
are the co-op’s leading
artists seeding their kilns and
furnaces with new work.
someone else roll my coils. But rolling
coils I find is very therapeutic,” Pat
says. Knowing that she took an 18-year
hiatus from pottery to pursue energy
work makes her statement that much
more relevant.
As she ropes the coil on a banding
wheel, the base of a pot takes shape.
She smooths the inside of the pot with
the soft pads of her fingertips. She
scores the outside of the pot with the
hard edges of her fingernails.
Lisa Oakley watches her mother
work as the base takes shape.
“When I was about three years old
my mother had all of her pots lined up
on the kitchen counter. I climbed up
and finished them for her,” Lisa says
with a big, wide grin.
“She finished them for me,” Pat says.
There are black and white photo-graphs
of Pat Oakley during this era
in the gallery’s museum. Her dark hair
pulled away from her face, she works
the same idiom into an oversized pot
that is now part of Cedar Creek’s
permanent collection.
“This will be Lisa’s one day,” Pat
says. “If she wants it.”
Lisa Oakley says her parents made
their pots at home in Butner and
brought them to the Creedmoor farm
to fire, then took them home to glaze
them and brought them back for the
second firing. Eventually, they decided
to move to Cedar Creek on Fleming
Road.
One January the Penland School
of Crafts catalogue came across Lisa’s
desk.
Pat Oakley and daughter Lisa Oakley
continue the family tradition established
in 1968.
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