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INSPIRE ATLANTA GIVING BACK Where she beat ONLY IN THE AJC VISUAL ARTS cancer as child, nurse helps kids Experience helps her understand their journey, build connections.

By Helena Oliviero [email protected]

Amelia Ballard was working at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a nurse in the emer- gency room department when an opportu- nity opened up at the hospital’s Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. She knew that’s where she belonged. She’s known that since she was a little girl. “It’s been my dream my entire life,” said Bal- lard, who works at Children’s Egleston campus and is now 27. “Since I was probably 3 years old when I was surrounded by a wonderful medical team,I knew I wanted to be a nurse.” As a young child, Ballard was hospital- COURTESY OF FOLK POTTERY MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA ized most of the time over a two-year-long period at Children’s. By the time she was 5 Above: The legendary Arie Meaders started in the art of years old, the girl from Macon had beat leu- pottery in the 1960s. kemia twice. Little Amelia underwent several Top left: Having married into the Meaders dynasty, Jessie rounds of chemotherapy and then received a Meaders did not start throwing pots until later in life. bone marrow transplant. COURTESY OF EMORY JONES Left: Mildred Meaders took up pottery when she was 40. It was a grueling recovery journey. But it wasn’t all bad. The petite woman with hazel eyes remembers good days and being sur- rounded by lots of love while being a young North Georgia women Nurse continued on E6 seize the spotlight

Matriarchs of the region’s pottery dynasties get their due.

ARTEVENT By Candice Dyer “The Men Won’t Tell Us Anything: Women of Georgia Folk For the AJC Pottery.” Free. Runs through July. Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, Jeanie Daves was preparing to 283 GA 255, Sautee Nacoochee. 706-878-3300, snca.org teach a beginners’ pottery class in Amelia Ballard, then a pediatric nurse at Clarkesville when she glanced at a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Egleston list of her students. location, engages her 8-month-old patient, Two women on it had an eye-pop- Olen, in the emergency room in 2016. AJC FILE ping surname: Meaders. Could this be the pottery royalty recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts and the ADVENTURES IN FOOD Library of Congress? “I thought the Art-Full Barn was playing a joke on me, but in they walked,” Daves says Girl Scouts past, with a laugh. “Ruby and Jessie Mead- ers turned out to be from that famous present celebrate family widely known for their signa- ture face jugs. I asked them why they cookie tradition would sign up for this class when they’ve been around clay all of their Relatives team up to bake versions lives, and they said, ‘The men won’t tell us anything.’” of classic Trefoil shortbreads. Mildred Meaders’ In the last century, folk pot- “Devil Politician” tery was very much a patriarchal By C.W. Cameron face jug. domain. Men turned and burned For the AJC COURTESY OF utilitarian stoneware while their WILLIAM M. HOUSE wives tended to children and the There are those who swear they get farm. Fathers passed the tradition to through the winter only because it brings the their sons, eventually forming what arrival of Girl Scout Cookies. A rustic are known as multigenerational Was it just last year that glossy boxes of piece “clay clans” or “clay dynasties” Tagalongs and Thin Mints beckoned from by Arie tables outside grocery stores, and you were Meaders, Potters continued on E8 tempted to order from the lists your col- the leagues circulated at the office? How are matriarch Girl Scout Cookies fans getting their fill now of the that COVID-19 has changed the way we live? Meaders Should we celebrate Girl Scout Sunday today clay by baking our own? dynasty. In Woodstock, Michele Samuel and her COURTESY OF daughters, Leigha, 11, and Lundyn, 10, baked WILLIAM M. a 1922 recipe for the equivalent of the Tre- HOUSE foil, the classic shortbread cookie that’s been around since 1917. They chatted about the experience via Zoom after they finished. They had gathered at their kitchen island

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E8 CREDIBLE. COMPELLING. COMPLETE. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 LIVING &ARTS Female potters have a flair for the details

Potters continued from E1 throughout Southern Appa- lachia. Once the kids were grown, the women often ten- tatively sat down at the wheel to have some fun. They were usually in their 40s, or older, when they embarked on this new hobby, and some of them went on to establish a follow- ing in their own right. “You just wanted to start try- ing some new stuff,” says Mil- dred Meaders, who began turning at 40 when her hus- band died. The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia in Sau- tee Nacoochee celebrates these late-blooming artisans with an exhibit called “The Men Won’t Tell Us Anything” that runs through July. It features the handiwork of Daves, along with 11 female potters born between 1890 and the 1940s. “These are the older gen- The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia in Sautee Nacoochee will host the work of women who took up pottery as “late bloomers” in eration,” says museum direc- an exhibit that will run through July, featuring the art of potters born from 1890 and through the 1940s. The museum will then feature another tor Anna-Louise Calliham, not- exhibit next January for artisans born in 1950 and later. COURTESY OF FOLK POTTERY MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA ing that about half of them are deceased, and the others are octogenarians. “Next January tive excess, Calliham notes. If you can’t be good all the time.” we plan to feature women pot- you see a bunch of a grapes or They all say there is cama- ters born from 1950 on.” bas-relief dogwood blossoms raderie in clay. The clans have Among the potters featured adorning a vase, it likely came intermarried, and they often in the current show are Arie from feminine hands. “Women share their materials with each Meaders, Grace Nell Hewell, add tons of detail,” says Calli- other. Lin Craven, Flossie Meaders, ham, “what Grace Nell Hewell “We’re all kin,” says Mary Ruby Meaders, Jessie Meaders, calls ‘finishings.’” Ferguson. “Now we might not Mildred Meaders, Mary Fergu- They also embrace whimsy. speak to each other or claim son and Marie Rogers. With the Jessie Meaders is known for each other sometimes, but exception of Rogers, who was her flying pigs, ducks and we’re all kin on our mama’s married to a fourth-generation Christmas angels. Mary Fer- side or our daddy’s side.” potter in the mid-state, they all guson is called the “chicken Sometimes, they turn clay hail from North Georgia. woman” for her poultry fig- together. “It’s so relaxing “Just as textbooks in the urines dubbed “Hoochee to do,” Jessie Meaders says. 1970s and earlier left out a lot Mamas.” (“I just like chickens,” “When you’re finished, you of people, we wanted to tell an she says flatly.) And Mildred feel like you’ve accomplished untold story that ties directly Meaders enjoys the challenges something.” to our community,” says Pat- of delicate teapots and candle Those swooning collectors rick Brennan, executive direc- holders. opening their wallets add to tor of the Sautee Nacoochee Then there are those eerie the empowerment. “Isn’t it Center, which oversees the pot- face jugs with the knowing something that we can make tery museum. “We’re showing leer. Some people say they money off of something like a very traditional art form in a were used to store moonshine this?” Jessie Meaders says. fresh way.” and rendered ugly to scare “You get so excited because North Georgia is legendary away children. everybody seems to think this for its rich clay deposits, partic- “Some women won’t make is the greatest thing in the ularly in the Mossy Creek area them because they associate world!” of White County. Folk pottery One of Mary Ferguson’s most playful endeavors are her poultry them with spirits or the devil,” Daves calls these women began as a labor-intensive farm figurines, including hens and roosters. COURTESY OF FOLK POTTERY MUSEUM Calliham says. “Marie Rogers “groundbreakers” — in every chore with sinewy, mud-spat- OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA writes ‘Jesus Saves’ on the bot- sense of the word. tered arms coaxing churns, tom of her work in case it’s “You have to consider their jars, jugs and other utilitar- ever used for nefarious pur- lifestyle,” she says. “We think ian vessels from the earth. The passion and commitment.” doing extraordinary things,” poses.” we’re busy today, but we can industry almost slumped into Burrison wrote the definitive Burrison says. “Roosters, Mildred Meaders is willing run to Ingles. These women obsolescence with the rise book on the subject, “Broth- quails, other birds using col- to court a little danger. One of may have had seven or eight of glass, but then the collec- ers in Clay: The Story of Geor- ored glazes, not just the old the pieces in the exhibit is her kids and were responsible for tors and gallerists swooped in gia Folk Pottery” — the title alkaline glazes.” horned face jug called “Devil feeding chickens, doing laun- and proclaimed it art. So the another nod to the male dom- One of her peacocks, with Politician.” dry and running a farm. Yet wheels kept turning, but those ination of the field. He noticed etched feathers, anchors the “When I see something they persevered without the stolid, conservative Appala- one particular woman’s work current exhibit. A placard next plain, I just want to get in there support of husbands. I think chian values did not change — early on, though. to it reads: “Though her pot- and start decorating,” she says. it’s important to see what peo- much. The late Arie Meaders was tery career only lasted 12 years, Like their male counterparts, ple are capable of when they “Good clay deposits are crit- the grand dame of this world, Arie and her creatively colorful female potters tend to be per- are determined. They are inspi- ical, but there is more to the and when she unleashed her pieces left a mark on the folk fectionists. Jessie Meaders rational figures to me.” story than that,” says folklor- muse at the age of 60, sparks pottery community that con- enjoys the tricky bisque tech- In that spirit, several of these ist John Burrison, curator of flew from the kiln. tinues to this day.” nique. “You dip ’em and hope earthy innovators have been the museum. “It’s the power “In the late 1960s, this Women’s wares often dif- to the Lord they come out teaching their granddaughters of these pioneer potters, their extremely creative woman was fer from men’s in their decora- good. Some are pitiful. I reckon how to throw a pot.

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