Join Master Potter Rich Hamelin of Pied Potter Hamelin for this all-ages, family-friendly pottery wheel demonstration program with a focus on the arts, the exploration of creativity and techniques with a touch of history.

We will be passing from person to person a freshly made pot from the potter's wheel and will have a chance to feel a dry and wet pot as it rotates on the wheel.

Each person will also make a pinch pot (cup made from a ball of clay by pinching the clay with thumb and finger) and the unfired piece goes home with the participant.

Rick has been potting since 1976 and has been committed to researching in depth the historical Redware potters and clay industries of New England, and especially, Massachusetts. He has been a teacher and worked in museums. He is also a popular demonstrator and lecturer with over two hundred and fifty completed programs and has received over two hundred Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. The Pied Potter Hamelin pottery dates to 1985. Pied Potter Hamelin can be taken linguistically apart and understood as a “Colorful Potter from a Small Town”. Pied means multi-colored. Potter is the trade. Hamelin translates into “one from a small town”.