PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- Huntington ceramic artist Bill Meadows, whose decorative crystalline vessels are currently on display in the Southern Ohio Museum's At Your Service: Functional Ceramics exhibition, will offer a SmARTalk at noon July 8, in the museum's second-floor Richards Gallery.

Meadows will bring his pottery wheel and demonstrate the tricks and techniques of his trade.

Admission to the program is free. Participants are encouraged to bring their own sack lunches or to order a $6 catered box lunch by calling the museum at 740-354-5629 no later than 2 p.m. July 7.

Meadows has been making pottery in his Huntington studio for more than 35 years. He graduated from Marshall University with an AB degree in Art Education and a MA plus 30 hours in Art, specializing in ceramics.

Meadows taught art and ceramics for 28 years in the Cabell County School System. He also taught ceramics for 10 years at Shawnee State University and conducted pottery classes at the Huntington Museum of Art and the Ann Davis Gallery for many years.

Meadows' pottery includes functional and decorative forms, but his specialty is crystalline. The crystalline technique involves the growing of zinc silicate crystals in a molten glaze above 2000 degrees. This technique is universally acknowledged as the most difficult of the ceramic disciplines.

Since 1971 Meadows has exhibited and sold his pottery throughout the central and eastern United States. His work has won numerous awards.

Courtesy of Bill Meadows and the Southern Ohio Museum

Huntington resident and ceramic artist Bill Meadows currently has some of his work on display at the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth. He will be giving a talk and demonstration of his work Wednesday, July 8, at the museum.

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