Blue Hen Pottery

Anne Pärtna and her husband Adam Landsman are the proprietors of Blue Hen Pottery. Anne grew up on a family farm in Estonia, where she threw her first pot on the hub of an overturned bicycle. As a teenager, Anne landed one of three coveted openings in the ceramics program of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. A spring semester exchange program at East Carolina University inspired her to return to ECU for her graduate degree. She and Adam met as students in ECU’s ceramics program and moved to Seagrove in 2007. They built their Bourry Box kiln and opened Blue Hen Pottery in 2011.