The Transylvania Times -

“Practice, practice,” is the advice Stuart Howe, owner of Brevard Clay in the Heart of Brevard, offers to anyone who feels they don’t have the skills it takes to be artistic. “I hear so much, ‘I’m not creative, I can’t paint,’” he continued, “but you can’t speak German if you haven’t tried to speak it.”

Howe speaks from his own experience as he began his journey as a potter the summer before he started college at UNC Asheville. He was working as a lifeguard at a summer camp. He saw the pottery instructor creating with clay and thought, “that looks fun.” He gav...