1943 Morgantown Green Art Pottery Vase Signed. WPA Project Arts and Crafts

  

Beginning in the 1930s pottery classes were taught in Blacksville, WV as an offshoot of the WPA and other government New Deal programs. The program thrived for some 25 years and attracted widespread attention ranging from the New York World's Fair to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Ed Richardson was the pottery instructor at Blacksville for some 15 years. He taught pottery, welding, and shop classes at Blacksville's Clay-Battelle High School during the day, and taught adult pottery classes at the school in the evening.

Two nights a week, he also held adult pottery classes in Morgantown.