Gallery Showcases 50 Years of Lorenzen Pottery

The Mary E. Black Gallery is featuring 50 years of pottery by the late husband and wife team, Ernst and Alma Lorenzen.

In 1949, the innovative and experimental Lorenzens set up a pottery studio in Lantz, Hants Co. They travelled the province collecting clays and minerals and developed and tested hundreds of glazes.

The Lorenzens are also renowned for their botanically accurate mushroom sculptures, many of which now appear in the collection of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. The couple's work has been shown throughout North America and Europe.

The Lorenzen Pottery exhibition is curated by Sanchez King. Mr. King is a graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University and is the grandson of Ernst and Alma Lorenzen. He studied pottery with his grandmother and mother.

The exhibition runs to Dec. 21 at the Mary E. Black Gallery in the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1683 Barrington St., Halifax. The gallery is open from Monday to Thursday, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.; Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m; and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.