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There are just a few more days to shop for Seagrove Pottery and wonderful Christmas ornaments and enjoy the Figuratively Speaking exhibition at The Galleries in downtown Concord.

Shop Seagrove, Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Figuratively Speaking will be on display through December 22 at The Galleries located in Cabarrus County’s historic courthouse at 65 Union Street S, Concord.  Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays.

The last two days only, Monday and Tuesday, December 21 and 22, there will be a 15% discount on all the wonderful items in the Shop Seagrove and Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree shows. 

Shop Seagrove includes pieces from six of the famed North Carolina pottery town’s most prominent potteries:  Avery Pottery and Tileworks, Cady Clay Works, Dirtworks Pottery, Chris Luther Pottery, Crystal King Pottery and King’s Pottery.  There are vases, pitchers, candlesticks, bowls and baking dishes as well as more whimsical works such as face jugs.  This is the third year we have offered Seagrove pottery at Christmas time.  We have sold a LOT of Seagrove Pottery this year, but there are still some great items remaining.

The Galleries are partnering with the Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree in Spruce Pine, NC, to offer ornaments and other decorative items based on Gloria Houston’s beloved book, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree.  In 2003, Houston gave the rights to the book to Spruce Pine.  The town and Mitchell County had suffered serious economic challenges with the loss of textile, furniture and other manufacturing jobs.  With entrepreneurial development as its primary focus, The Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree was born.  The project has created nearly 100 individual small businesses that produce quality, handmade products based on the book.

Figuratively Speaking focuses on 13 artists’ renderings of the human body and includes beautiful paintings and thought-provoking sculptures.

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