by Carole Epp | Jun 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Chuck Aydlett
Susan Beiner
Mark Boguski
Debbie Kupinsky
Wesley Anderegg
Courtney Murphy
The annual Bray Benefit Auction attracts artists, collectors and life long supporters of the Bray from around the country. Artwork from over 300 ceramic artists will be included in our Live and Silent Auctions. This is the Bray’s biggest fundraiser of the year and helps support the residency program.
The Bray’s residency program supports artists by offering rent-free studios, subsidized material and firing costs, as well as direct funding through fellowships and stipends. The auction items will be on display at the Helena Civic Center beginning June 23rd and for the duration of the event with the bidding closing on Friday, June 24th. Silent Auctions will close on Friday, June 24th at 7:30p and 7:45p
Live Auction will take place on Friday, June 24th at 8:00p. If you are unable to attend the auctions in person we will be taking absentee and proxy bids until Tuesday, June 21. Click here to see details on how to bid.
See the whole auction here.
by Carole Epp | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dawn Petticrew
Chari Cohen, Jeremy Hatch, Laura McKibbon, Dawn Petticrew
Curated by Melanie Egan
Part of Summer 2011 Visual Arts Exhibitions June 18 – September 25, 2011 @ Harbourfront Centre in TorontoDawn Petticrew studied at Sheridan College, majoring in ceramics. Upon graduation she was awarded an artist-in-residence position at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. She has been working with ceramics for almost 10 years and currently shares studio space in west-end Toronto where she actively pursues her evolving interest in clay. dpceramics.caBorn and raised in Vancouver, BC, Laura McKibbon has been working in clay for the past seven years. A self-taught ceramic artist with an academic background in science, printmaking and photography, McKibbon’s distinctive line of ceramics reflects a love of modern design, a dedication to fine craftsmanship and, ultimately, function. In addition to a production line, McKibbon continues to exhibit regularly. Through a series of residencies in Australia, Denmark, Slovenia and Finland, her current body of work responds to an ongoing investigation of other countries, both physically and culturally. Her work has been featured in several publications and has been collected internationally. culdesacdesign.com
Jeremy Hatch is best known for his large-scale porcelain installations that explore ideas of nostalgia and the in/authenticity of memory. He has received several grants and attended residencies at the Takumi Studios in Japan, the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and the Archie Bray Foundation, where he was the recipient of the Taunt Fellowship. Since receiving his MFA at Alfred University, Hatch has taught at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2008, he founded Ricochet Studio as a means to explore the intersections between craft, art and design. One goal of Ricochet is to collaborate with artists from various disciplines to develop limited edition ceramic products. AZURE Magazine recently named him one of the top 25 designers leading the pack. jeremyhatch.caChari Cohen is a Toronto artist who has been working in clay for over 25 years. She first studied ceramics at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1973-1975 and in 2009 attended Sheridan College where she studied the slip casting technique that she is currently using to create her ceramic objects. While at Sheridan College she received the Joan Bennett Award in Crafts and Design-Ceramics and had her work published in AZURE Design magazine. Her work can be found in the Gardiner Museum and is in private collections in England, the US, Thailand, Israel and Canada. charicohen.com
by Carole Epp | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Monday – Friday, August 1-5, 10am – 5pm Fee: $395 members; $415 non-members  In this intensive 5 day hands on workshop experience, Deb will present functional vessels that are made using a variety of construction techniques. She will share how she forms ideas from drawing, patterns, her environment, and the process of making itself. She will demonstrate ways of working which exemplify the steps vital to her current body of work. The class will make and use coiled bisque molds and cut, shape and build with slabs. Simple thrown pieces will be altered and combined. Students will also design and cut out paper patterns to augment hand building. In the end, all these approaches will be utilized in making non-round, expressive shapes. While making, Deb will also discuss the way she thinks about surface and how it can change the way the form is perceived and what she intends it to communicate. This workshop will offer many different examples of building with clay what will enrich the skills of both the hand builder and the wheel thrower. |
Deborah Schwartzkopf is currently living in Seattle Washington, her childhood home, working at
Pottery Northwest making pots and teaching. After completing a BA in Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage, she moved to San Diego, California for a year of independent study at San Diego State University. In the spring of 2005, she completed a MFA at the
Pennsylvania State University and then traveled to China through an NCECA student show award. She stayed at
Sanboa Ceramics Art Institute in Jingdezhen and traveled across the country to Western China. In 2005, she received the Lilian Fellowship to be a resident artist at the
Archie Bray Foundation . For the 2006-07 school year she was a part of the
Ohio University Ceramics Program as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Schwartzkopf has exhibited her works widely across the United States and abroad.
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Chuck Aydlett
Susan Beiner
Mark Boguski
Debbie Kupinsky
Wesley Anderegg
Courtney Murphy
