Sponsorship Opportunities

Starworks will soon host Woodfire NC, an international conference on wood fired ceramics May 22-25, 2025. This conference is a fantastic opportunity for North Carolina to display its wood fired traditions on an international stage. We are enormously proud of this opportunity to broaden our cultural and aesthetic perspective and would like you to become part of this event.

This is also an opportunity to help support our state’s potters, and showcase pottery not only from North Carolina but from around the nation and the world!

See sponsorship levels & learn more below.

Sponsorship Levels

  • Flame: $10,000+

  • Ember: $5,000 - $9,999

  • Spark: $2,500 - $4,999

  • Glow: $1,000 - $2,499

  • Glimmer: $500

All Sponsors are eligible to have their names and/or logos on this site's home page and will be listed on a hanging banner at the event!

Questions? Email contact@woodfirenc.com

Please submit Sponsorship payments to:
Starworks, 100 Russell Dr, Star, NC 27356.
Thank you for your support!

We’re doing it again!

In both 2017 & 2022, Starworks in Star NC hosted Woodfire NC, an international conference on wood-fired ceramics. The event included potters from all over the US and the world, including from 20 countries! Participants had an opportunity to fire a variety of styles of kilns, and to try a variety of North Carolina’s unique clays. The event was so successful, we want to do it again! But we need your help to do it.

Why North Carolina?

North Carolina has one of the longest traditions of wood-fired ceramics in the United States. Yet there are many issues facing North Carolina wood-firers that also affect wood-firers all over the world, including environmental issues, changing aesthetics, and access to natural resources. Because it has one of the largest concentrations of wood-firers kilns and firers in the country, North Carolina is uniquely suited to provide a forum for many of these critical issues. A series of panels and demonstrations will explore all aspects of wood-firing, beginning with a lively discussion of historical, ethical, and environmental issues pertinent to our field. Interspersed throughout the proceedings will be plenary sessions and keynote address from some of our field’s most noted thinkers, as well as simultaneous demonstrations featuring sculptors and functional pottery makers.

Sustain 2025: Starworks’ 3rd International Woodfire Conference

Save the Date: May 22-25

Starworks Center for Creative Enterprise

100 Russell Drive, Star, NC 27356

(910) 428-9001 | contact@woodfirenc.com

Full list of artists and presenters to be announced.

Starworks will be the site of the conference, exhibitions of contemporary NC woodfired pottery, and of presenters’ work. It will feature a juried student exhibition, special installations, a North Carolina Wild Clay exhibition, and a fun pop-up show by participants. We’re excited to host this event and hope that you can join us in making it happen!

Thank you again for your support. If you have any questions about the details of the event or sponsorship, please contact us at (910) 428-9001.