Little Mountain Pottery is the studio and showroom of Claude and Elaine Graves. The Graves started the pottery in 1973 after working with and documenting folk potters in Spain, N. Africa, Mexico and the Canary Islands. Claude has been designated a "Traditional Artist" of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. In 2015 Tyson Graham began a one year apprenticeship with the Graves and now works out of the shop under his own name, Tyson Graham Pottery.