MILWAUKEE, WI.- The first major North Carolina earthenware survey completed in the United States, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware, opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Thursday, September 2, 2010, and runs through Monday, January 17, 2011. Art in Clay presents groundbreaking scholarship that re-attributes ceramic forms long believed to be Moravian to diverse North Carolina cultural groups. During the last half of the eighteenth century, artisans of European descent introduced a variety of old world ceramic traditions to the Carolina backcountry. The pottery, consisting of slipware, sculptural bottles, faience, and creamware, was far better in quality than what the early American colonists were producing. The exhibition will include more than 150 objects by Moravian potters, who trained under, or were influenced by, the great Gottfried Aust, (American, b.