Customers meet their match in artist's play quilts
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Woodworker pieces wood into vessels
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From a falling-down barn, his craft arose
Who & Ware:For Jim Potts, it all started with a barn. Potts, whose parents owned a department store in tiny Stanley in Gaston County, grew up to appreciate rural living.
She's built a career on what others throw away
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Found objects and free attitude find place in art
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