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Giving Season collaboration with East Fork Pottery

Check out more info on our recent collaboration with East Fork Pottery, with 5% of all their December 2024 sales benefiting The Center for Native Health!

The Center for Native Health is the current community partner of East Fork Pottery in Asheville, North Carolina, “committed to bringing you the most beautiful, functional and long-lasting pottery out there while treating each other and our community with kindness and respect”.

This December, they’ve partnered with us to help empower our community: 5% of all their sales will benefit The Center for Native Health, and highlight our work in both our Art, Language & Healing and our Land & Wellness Program Areas.

You can read their article “Reclaiming Health and Heritage” by Jasmin Pittman to learn more about our recent work reviving Cherokee pottery traditions.

You can also participate by entering East Fork Pottery’s December raffle:

Three lucky raffle winners will receive an amazing prize package hand-picked by our founder and CEO, Alex Matisse. Enter between now and Tuesday, 12/10 at 12pm ET. Buy as many tickets as you like for more chances to win.

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