Artist to be featured in LaGrange
By From staff reports
Published in News on September 23, 2016 9:57 AM
On Sunday Sept. 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. pastor Ray Teague will be the featured artist at the LaGrange Art Center located at 102 W. Railroad St., LaGrange.
Teague serves LaGrange and Institute United Methodist Churches and has lived in LaGrange for four years.
Teague has been doing pottery for about six years.
He first became interested in pottery when he attended a program at Camp Chestnut Ridge with some of his church members.
Teague then took a few lessons and was able to continue refining his skills.
Doing pottery is his Sabbath, it is a time when he feels the closest to God. He prays over his work. While not always knowing where the work will be going it always goes with prayer.
Whenever he does a baptism he gives a bowl that he has thrown and used for the baptismal water, to the family as a remembrance.
He was commissioned to make chalice and platens for the Duke Divinity School Chapel and was honored to create a baptismal font for a church that was celebrating their 200th anniversary.
Last Christmas, he led a Moravian Love Feast where he used 80 of his mugs and then presented them as gifts to the congregation.
He enjoys giving his work as appreciation gifts, wedding presents, birthday presents and Christmas gifts.
Most of all he enjoys seeing his pottery being used. All of his work can be put in the microwave, the oven and the dishwasher.
During the event, all Teague's work will be up for sale.