{{short description|American potter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Lanier Meaders | image = Quillan Lanier Meaders.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Quillan Lanier Meaders | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|10|04}} | birth_place = Mossy Creek, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|02|05|1917|10|04}} | death_place = Mossy Creek, Georgia, U.S. | other_names = Q. Lanier Meaders | occupation = Potter | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Quillan '''Lanier Meaders''' (October 4, 1917<ref name="nhf">{{cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/lanier-meaders|title=Lanier Meaders: Potter|author=<!--Not stated-->|website=www.arts.gov|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref> – February 5, 1998)<ref name=FindAGrave-Meaders-1988>{{cite web|title=Quillian Lanier Meaders (1917 - 1998) - Find A Grave Memorial|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92862422|website=Find a Grave|date=5 February 1988}}</ref> was an American potter best known for face jugs, for which he was regarded as a master of the form.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://intuitiveeye.org/Face-Jug-by-Reggie-MeadeRS|title=Face Jug by Reggie Meaders - intuitive eye|work=intuitiveeye.org|accessdate=7 January 2017}}</ref>
== Early life == right|thumb|Face jug, 1979 Meaders' grandfather, John Milton Meaders, started a pottery business in the community of Mossy Creek, Georgia in 1893, employing his five sons. Son Cheever Meaders took over the business in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/meaders-family-ralph-rinzler/meaders-family-ralph-rinzler_djvu.txt|title=The Meaders Family|date= 1981|first=Ralf|last=Rinzler|accessdate=6 December 2018}}</ref> Grandson Lanier Meaders continued the traditional ceramic craftsmanship of his forefathers by producing alkaline-glazed stoneware, solely working with a foot-powered treadle wheel and a wood-fired kiln. Like his father, he used materials that were indigenous to the region. His ash glaze was made of sifted ashes from his kiln, Albany slip and regular stoneware clay, and powdered calcium carbonate. Meaders typically created pieces in earth-brown, olive-green and rust-gray similar to those while a young apprentice to his father.<ref name="georgiamountains1">{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiamountains.org/things-to-do/museums-historic-sites|title=Museums & Historic Sites|date=23 February 2015|work=georgiamountains.org|accessdate=7 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.folkpottery.com/lanier/lanier.htm|title=Lanier Meaders - Meaders Pottery|first=Tarp|last=Head|work=folkpottery.com|accessdate=7 January 2017}}</ref>
== Career == right|thumb|Signature on jug Meaders' contributions to Southern folk art have been recognized by multiple entities including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.edu/object/face-jug:saam_1986.65.28|title=Face Jug|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=October 17, 2024}}</ref> and the Library of Congress. His work is exhibited in the Smithsonian<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=31532|title=Face Jug by Quillan Lanier Meaders / American Art|work=si.edu|accessdate=7 January 2017}}</ref> and various museums across the United States. In 1978 he and his mother, Arie Meaders, were honorees of the Library of Congress with Meaders Pottery Day.<ref name="georgiamountains1"/> He was a recipient of a 1983 National Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/1983|title=NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1983 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920053257/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/1983 |archive-date=September 20, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and was the recipient of the Governor's Award for the Arts in 1987.
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== External links == * [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=5641 Quillan Lanier Meaders] at Smithsonian American Art Museum
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meaders, Lanier}} Category:1917 births Category:1998 deaths Category:20th-century American ceramists Category:American potters Category:Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:National Heritage Fellowship winners