Edwin Meaders

Art Brokerage: Edwin Meaders American Folk Artist: b. 1921. Edwin Meaders, was born 1921 in White County, Georgia. Edwin is the youngest son of Arie and Cheever Meaders. His grandfather, John Milton Meaders, opened the Meaders Pottery in 1893, employing his sons, Wiley, Caulder, Cleater, Cheever, and Casey, to assist hired local potters. Through these men the Meaders learned the basic techniques employed by Mossy Creek potters for over half a century—knowledge that passed to Lanier when his father, Cheever, took over the original family shop in 1920. By 1930, the Meaders were the last of the family potteries in Mossy Creek.Influenced by his mother's roosters, Edwin evolved his own style of rooster. Although Edwin Meaders has made a wide variety of pottery items over the years, his name is synonymous with roosters, whether they be the earlier green or more recent cobalt blue. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.