GEORGE RECTOR

        George Rector is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Art at Western Carolina University. He has also been a presenter of numerous seminars at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and has instructed at the John C. Campbell Folk School.

        He established Caledonia Pottery some 21 years ago in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he teaches. Rector is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and has been selected to exhibit at the Appalachian Regional Commission in Washington, D.C. for 2004 and 2005. A large section of Andrew’s native George Rector is currently on exhibit at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center through Monday, October the 11^th, 2007.

        All of Rector’s work focuses on wood-fired functional stoneware and porcelain. His work is utilitarian in nature, but it is decorated with a very sophisticated style that is uniquely his own. He uses his beautifully wood-fired pieces as canvases on which he places painting-like decorations that are almost always geometric in nature. He uses glazes that are black for the outer lines, much like architectural drawings and the contents are almost always glazed with a subtle white that permits the arbitrary darker wood firing to show through from time to time. It is always fresh and spontaneous in nature and uniquely his own. All of the works share the same distinctive style. His works are varied in form and cover a complete collection of utilitarian pieces. He is selected here to highlight because of this distinct style and his prolific output.