TABLE OF CONTENTS
LONG TERM RESIDENT ARTISTS
Austin Coudriet; Lincoln, NE
Austin Riddle; Salt Lake City, UT
Carey Nathanson; Wilmington, NC
Colby Charpentier; Providence, RI
Dante Gambardella; Bozeman, MT
Eliza Weber; Great Falls, MT
Janina Myronowa; Poland; Ukraine
Kim Tucker; Los Angeles, CA
Laura Dirksen; Maria Stein, OH
Lexus Giles; Jackson, MS
Maura Wright; Columbia, MO
Megan Thomas; Hamilton, OH
Sarah Alsaied; Kuwait
Shea Burke; Rochester, NY
Simphiwe Mbunyuza; Johannesburg, South Africa
SUMMER RESIDENT ARTISTS
Aida Lizalde; Mexico City, Mexico
Corinna Cowles; Philadelphia, PA
Jason Lee Starin; Grand Rapids, MI
Marcè Nixon-Washington; Pittsburgh, PA
Priscilla Dobler Dzul; US and Mexico EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rebecca Harvey; Helena, MT
Austin Coudriet 2023 Frazza Fellow, 2024 Frazza Fellow Lincoln, Nebraska
Austin Coudriet’s studio practice is an ongoing tactile conversation between soft amorphous forms and rigid linear components. Daily visual experiences of infrastructure found within the natural environment are re-contextualized through the lens of play into nonrepresentational, interactive sculpture. Amid a collision of rudimentary shapes, inspired by Deconstructivist architecture, compositions are rendered. Lines find edges, and shapes find volume.
Austin is currently a long term artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation located in Helena, Montana. Here he is able to pursue his passions of teaching, and working as a studio artist. He divides his studio practice between creating large scale sculptures intended for public art installations, and design oriented objects. In 2019 Austin received a BFA from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln with dual emphasis in ceramics and sculpture. Austin completed residencies at Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and LUX Center for the Arts.
Austin Coudriet
Green Construction mugs no. 1-12 (12 total), 2024, stoneware, glaze
$225 (each)
6” x 4” x 4” (average)
Austin Coudriet
Tripod Table (not pictured), 2024, stoneware, glaze, automotive paint
$5,000
23” x 23” x 14”
Austin Coudriet
Silo Stack, 2024, stoneware, glaze
$3,000
15” x 17” x 27”
Austin Coudriet
Collected, 2023, stoneware, glaze
$1,850
13” x 13” x 13”
Austin Riddle
2022 Matsutani, 2023 Joan Lincoln Fellow
Salt Lake City, Utah
Austin Riddle’s pots are made as companions for you and your home. A vase for your table, full of freshly picked flowers as you and your partner eat breakfast and plan your day’s activities. Large platters and compartment trays to present home-cooked meals with friends on a warm summer evening. Whiskey sippers that nestle in warm hands, topped off as needed from a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels.
Austin Riddle recently received his MFA in ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He received his BFA in ceramics at the University of Utah in 2016. He has been an Artistin-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, The Bright Angle in Asheville. North Carolina, and at Art Center West in Roswell, Georgia. He was awarded emerging artist by Ceramics Monthly in 2019 and has exhibited his work all over the United States.
Austin Riddle Pink Scallop Vase, 2023, earthenware
$165
4” x 7.25” x 1.75”
Austin Riddle
Tall Tombstone, 2023, earthenware
$220
10” x 3.5” x 3.75”
Austin Riddle
Pink Snack Bowl, 2023, earthenware
$83
4” x 7.25” x 1.75”
Austin Riddle
Pink Dual Tray, 2023, earthenware
$650
3.5” x 14.25” x 7.25”
Austin Riddle
Yellow Tumbler 1, 2023, earthenware
$68
6.5” x 3” x 3”
Austin Riddle
Yellow Tumbler 2, 2023, earthenware
$68
6.5” x 3” x 3”
Austin Riddle
Pink Tumbler, 2023, earthenware
$68
6.5” x 3” x 3”
Austin Riddle
Yellow Tumbler 3, 2023, earthenware
$68
6.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
2024 Bray Fellow
Wilmington, North Carolina
Carey Nathanson’s work is primarily hand-built and wood fired cups, platters, bottles and other vessels. Using pine and a mixture of hardwoods, the goal is to fire several days to saturate the work with fly ash, encourage local reduction effects by building large ember beds and create dramatic surfaces with big color palettes. With each wood firing, the surfaces of the pieces record a snapshot in time of unique conditions and are affected by the place, materials and individual collaborators within that universe.
Nathanson started working with clay during his high school years in his home town of Wilmington, North Carolina. In 2018 and 2019 he studied wood firing as a studio assistant under John Dix in Kobe, Japan and Nick Schwartz in Comptche, California. He has completed residencies at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Mendocino Art Center, STARworks, Red Lodge Clay Center and Cider Creek Collective.
Carey Nathanson
Cat Bottle, 2023, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$500
24” x 4” x 4”
Carey Nathanson
Pack Bottle, 2023, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$400
19” x 5” x 4”
Carey Nathanson
Okee Bottle, 2023, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$500
21” x 6” x 4”
Carey Nathanson
Shino Cup, 2023, wood fired stoneware, shino glaze
$100
3” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
SW Cup, 2023, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$80
3” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Slip Cup, 2022, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$80
3” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Oribe Cup, 2023, wood fired stoneware, natural ash glaze
$80
3” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Dice Rack, 2023, wood fired porcelain natural, ash glaze, stone with oribe glaze
$275
20” x 5” x 4”
Colby Charpentier
2022 Visions West, 2023 Etchart-Satre Fellow
Providence, Rhode Island
As an artist, Colby Charpentier formulates, tests, and designs alternative ceramic materials and processes. The resulting works are vessels that showcase these technologies. Recent projects include soft paste porcelain as an approximation of Western replication of Eastern porcelain, plaster-clay mixtures to capture the immediacy of wet plaster, and brick lattice to subvert the visual weight and expectations of brick and ceramic materials.
Colby Charpentier received his BFA in Ceramics and Glass from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2013, and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021. He has worked as a studio assistant to artists Daniel Clayman and Chris Gustin; and completed residencies at Sonoma Ceramics in Sonoma, CA, The Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL, The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard University and American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA. He taught classes at these residencies as well as Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Colby Charpentier
Stacked, 2024, stoneware, glaze, terracotta, porcelain, refractory mortar, slip, glaze
$2,800
16” x 25” x 20”
Dante Gambardella
2024 Quigley-Hiltner Fellow Bozeman, Montana
Dante Gambardella finds great value in learning from the traditions of different cultures, an interest that has led him to study ceramics in Brazil, Italy, and Japan. He is deeply interested in how his creative practice is influenced by surroundings and how humankind is impacting the environment. Deliberately limiting the use of mined materials, he highlights the importance of having a sustainable art practice. To him the world of clay is about engaging with his community, contributing to a network of shared knowledge, and challenging himself as an artist.
Gambardella grew up in the Bay Area and found ceramics when he moved to Bozeman, MT. While studying at Montana State University he became very interested in wood firing and using local materials — techniques ceramicists have been using for thousands of years.
Dante Gambardella
“Untitled” (stool/side table with black top), 2024, stoneware, exterior urethane paint
$1,300
15” x 15.5” x 15.5”
Dante Gambardella
“Untitled” (stool/side table with white top), 2024, stoneware
$1,300
15” x 15.5” x 15.5”
Dante Gambardella
Filling The Blue, 2024, stoneware
$225
12.5” x 10.5” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
Landscape with The Crystal Strokes, 2024, stoneware
$225
12.5” x 10.5” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
By The Speckled Pond, 2024, stoneware
$225
12.5” x 10.5” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
“Untitled” (Description - Layered
Landscape with orange streak on top), 2024, stoneware
$225
12.5” x 10.5” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
Finger Mugs (10 total), 2024, ceramic, glaze
$60 each
3” x 4” x 4”
Eliza Weber 2024 Taunt Fellow Great Falls, Montana
Eliza Weber’s work explores interconnectedness and materiality in a variety of mediums including ceramic, paper, found objects, and textiles. Through considerations of duality and context, with explorations in emotion and play, individual pieces and installations become abstracted reflections of the world around us. Influenced by the curation of domestic places and the management of environments, interior and exterior overlap, acknowledging the ways in which objects, the self, and others occupy space.
Weber completed her MFA at Arizona State University and BFA at The University of Montana. She has completed residencies at Medalta in Alberta, Canada, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and Pottery Northwest in Seattle, Washington. She served on the boards of NCECA and the Ceramics Research Center, and is presently on the NCECA Green Task Force and the board for the Urban Art Project. In recent years, Eliza moved home to work as Director of Education at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art.
Red Bouquet with pedestal, 2020, ceramic, dyed paper pulp, mixed media
Eliza Weber
Eliza Weber
Cloud (14 total), 2019, stoneware
$150 each
6” x 9.75” x 1.25”
Eliza Weber
Red Mirror, 2020, found broken mirror, wood scrap, dyed paper pulp
$150
14.75” x 13.5” x 2”
Eliza Weber
Green Mirror, 2020, found broken mirror, wood scrap, dyed paper pulp
$150
14.5” x 11” x 1.75”
Eliza Weber
Orange Bouquet, 2020, ceramic, dyed paper pulp
$175
9.5” x 6” x 4.5”
Eliza Weber
Orange Shelf, 2020, found shelf, dyed paper pulp
$75
9.5” x 10.75” x 5.25”
Eliza Weber
Indigo Bouquet with pedestal, 2020, ceramic, dyed paper pulp, mixed media
$800
55” x 10” x 9.25”
Janina Myronova
2022 Speyer Fellow, 2023 Speyer Fellow
Wroclaw, Poland; Ukraine
Janina Myronova creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Myronova’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.
Janina Myronova received her MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine) in 2012, an MFA from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2013, and her PhD from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in 2019. Continually developing her work and practice, Myronova has attended numerous residencies including opportunities at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan), Clayarch Gimhae Musem (Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea), Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France), the Polish Sculpture Centre (Oronsko, Poland), and the International Ceramic Research Center (Guldagergaard, Denmark), International Ceramic Studio (Kecskemet, Hungary), Northern Clay Center.
Janina Myronowa
BLUE BUBBLE, 2024, porcelain, underglaze, glass
$2,500
11.4” x 9.2” x 8.9”
Janina Myronowa & Brent Cole POSITIVE ATTITUDE, 2023, glass, decal
$1,000
5” x 7.5” x 2.5”
Janina Myronowa IN RED TIGHTS, 2024, porcelain, underglaze, glass
$3,000
14.5” x 8.2” x 5.2”
Janina Myronowa DANCING QUEEN, 2023, stoneware, underglaze
$4,500
22” x 20.5” x 5”
Janina Myronowa CHEERFUL, 2024, chamotte clay, underglaze
$6,000
19.5” x 12” x 20.2”
Janina Myronowa & Brent Cole TRANSPARENT, 2023, glass, decal
$1,000
5” x 6.5” x 2.5”
Janina Myronowa CARING FOR FRIENDS, 2024, porcelain, underglaze
$2,500
12.2” x 11.4” x 6.2”
Janina Myronowa GENTLE THOUGHTS, 2024, porcelain, underglaze
$3,000
10.5” x 9.4” x 6.6”
Janina Myronowa BIG MAMMA, 2024, chamotte clay, underglaze, engobe, high firing glaze
$7,000
17” x 26” x 14.5”
Kim Tucker
2024 Joan Lincoln Fellow Los Angeles, California
Kim Tucker’s figures are outsiders caught in moments of vulnerability, and her works are influenced by Beatrice Wood, Viola Frey, cave paintings and vintage figurines. She creates portraits of humans feeling weird, happy, lost, joyful and sometimes uncomfortable. Often with a female subject at the center, she uses figuration as a gestural means of expression to dig deeper into the psyche.
Tucker studied ceramic sculpture under the direction of Viola Frey and Arthur Gonzalez at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland CA, graduating with High Distinction. She received her MFA in ceramics under the guidance of M.J. Bole at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Kim was a recent invited artist-in-residence at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, The Bray, and the American Museum of Ceramic Arts. Kim has shown her work at Gallery Futur (Switzerland), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Lauren Powell Projects, L2Kontemporary and AMcE Creative Arts.
Kim Tucker
Very Blue, Soft & Tender, 2023, mid-range ceramics
$3,200
14” x 17” x 10”
Kim Tucker
In The Garden, 2023, mid-range ceramics
$2,400
23” x 12” x 11”
Kim Tucker
Kitty, 2023, mid-range ceramics
$950
7” x 18” x 8”
Kim Tucker
Sonny (not pictured), 2023, mid-range ceramics
$950
15” x 8” x 9”
Kim Tucker
Candle #1-4, mid-range ceramics
$250 each
Laura Dirksen
2023 Bray Fellow, 2024 Speyer Fellow
Maria Stein, Ohio
Laura Dirksen’s work embodies her own cognitive dissonance and becomes a vehicle to understand her conflicted and evolving value system. This value system includes, but is not limited to, societal pressures within dairy culture, coding systems incorporating domestic and livestock materials, as well as trends, age, diagnosis, and religion. Laura’s visual language is a product of how she processes materials and navigates the world, forging sculptures as a celebration of techniques blended with her personal traditions and heritage.
Laura Dirksen is from Maria Stein, Ohio. She received her BFA from Bowling Green State University specializing in ceramics and painting in 2019. Afterwards she completed a twoyear Post Baccalaureate Program at Kent State University. Laura recently received her MFA from Penn State University in Spring 2023, before joining us at the Archie Bray Foundation.
Laura Dirksen Aircraft Cow, 2024, ceramic, mixed media
$1,100 18” x 11” x 13”
Laura Dirksen
LOU LAUR I, 2024, ceramic, mixed media
NFS
63” x 40” x 35”
Laura Dirksen
TRINE, 2024, ceramic, mixed media
$2,700
36” x 25” x 19”
Laura Dirksen
THOROUGHBRED, 2024, ceramic
$350
13” x 9” x 8”
Lexus Giles
2024 Lilian Fellow
Jackson, Mississippi
Lexus Giles’ work explores themes of systems, erasures, and obstacles that the low-income black community experience on a daily basis. She creates sculptures and installations that incorporate ceramic, sound, video, and everyday objects filled with personal, historical, and cultural meaning to explore identity, memories, and place. She uses clay to draw in the connection the black community has with Black Church referring to all life beginning in dirt and using the material to create solutions for contemporary issues. Coil-building and relief carving give her the sense of adding, building, and removing certain history she was taught or never taught. The result of each piece is to place the audience in the perspective of the black community.
Giles received her BFA from Mississippi State University in 2019. This spring she earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Florida. Giles’ work has been exhibited in Mississippi, Florida, Iowa, Chicago, and New York. She received the 2021-2022 University of Florida Grinter Fellowship and the Sam B. Hamilton Noxubee Refuge Fellowship in 2019.
Lexus Giles
She is Alone, 2019, earthen red, underglaze
$900
8” x 15” x 19”
Lexus Giles
Wading the Woes of Jackson Water: Crisis Essentials (crate 1/smaller crate), 2024, live oak wood, Mississippi clay, Mississippi water
NFS
16” x 22” x 26”
Lexus Giles
Wading the Woes of Jackson Water: Crisis Essentials (crate 1/larger crate), 2024, live oak wood, Mississippi clay, Mississippi water
NFS
25” x 27” x 35”
Maura Wright
2022 Lilian Fellow, 2023 Quigley-Hiltner Fellow Columbia, Missouri
Maura Wright weds high art to low until we can’t tell the difference, until we feel ourselves acknowledging the staginess of all art, of all life. The pastiche considers the current conversation between craft and high art--the former all about repetition/perfection, the latter about the medium of clay as expressive material. The decorative is primarily dissected. Glazed vases and vessels feel pried from still life. The pleasure of the work comes from deft and shifting angles between the tradition of the past and the impropriety and insouciance of the present moment, from questioning the real and the imitation.
Maura Wright, received a Master of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018 and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. Residencies include: the International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark; the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary; Red Star Studios in Kansas City, MO; The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT; and Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT.
Maura Wright
Nude Pot, 2023, earthenware, glaze, luster
$5,500
26” x 17” x 17”
Maura Wright
Cynthia, 2023, earthenware, slip, glaze, human hair extensions
$750
10” x 4” x 5”
Maura Wright
Eve’s Hand, 2023, earthenware, glaze
$6,500
20” x 25” x 14”
Megan Thomas 2022 Lillstreet Art Center, 2023 Bray Fellow Hamilton, Ohio
As an artist, Megan Thomas seeks to tell stories about how people and animals respond to biological and emotional scarcity. Vessels are inspired by anthropomorphic pottery that appears in the early ceramics records of many cultures. While very old pottery may not divulge all secrets to modern viewers, many of these pots seem to be prayers for bounty or attempts at understanding. She finds interest in how environmental and personal collapse might mirror each other. As cycles of ecological boom and bust manifest themselves in the archaeological records of past cultures, so might the cycles of emotional dearth and plenty manifest themselves in the archaeological record of one human’s soul.
Megan Thomas grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. She studied ceramic sculpture and painting at Bowling Green State University as an undergraduate student and graduated with an MFA in ceramics from Utah State University in 2020. She is an enthusiastic birdwatcher.
Megan Thomas
Memory of Rain, 2024, stoneware, wood-fired NFS
60” x 24”
Megan Thomas
Cormorant Vessel 1, 2023, stoneware, wood-fired
$2,100
28” x 41” x 6”
Megan Thomas
Cormorant Vessel 2, 2023, stoneware, wood-fired
$2,100
28” x 41” x 6”
Sarah Alsaied
2023 Bray Fellow, 2024 Etchart-Satre Fellow
Kuwait, based in Midwest, US
As a bicultural artist, Sarah Alsaied makes work that straddles Eastern and Western cultures, and the complex issues of identity and the collapse of social, cultural, racial, and gendered borders. Through the use of clay, fiber, and installation art, she expresses aspects of herself and challenges stereotypes of Arab women. Through the combination of malleable and permanent qualities of the materials, Sarah explores and expresses the complexities of identity.
Sarah Alsaied is an artist from Kuwait based in the Midwest, United States. Sarah earned a BA in Studio Arts with ceramics emphasis at University of Southern Indiana (2018) and an MFA with sculpture emphasis at Wichita State University (2022). In 2021, Sarah contributed in organizing, co-creating, and co-designing of Juneteenth Parade Float in Wichita, KS, and reimagined the homecoming parade mascot puppet for Wichita State University. Recently, she finished a residency at the New Harmony Clay Project Center. Outside of the studio, Sarah is a wanderer who enjoys cooking, sporty activities, jewelry making, and video games.
Sarah Alsaied Your Existence Shall Be That Which I Weave For You Out Of Sorrow And Woe, 2024, clay, fiber, monster mud, foam, luster
$3,200
Sarah Alsaied Make ‘Em Swoon, clay, fiber, monster mud, wood, luster
$5,000
Shea Burke
2022 Taunt Fellow, 2023 Lilian Fellow
Rochester, New York
Shea Burke makes vessels that contain thoughts on Black identity, history, and craft tradition. Weaving together inspiration granted from West African functional pottery, raw textured surfaces, and a style of coiling all their own, they craft queer ceramic bodies. These vessels act as a storage place for the wisdom we need to hold on to, until we are ready to pour that wisdom into ourselves. Ceramics can be the centerpiece in connection across the diaspora; reuniting us with the way we used the earth before colonialism.
Shea Burke was born and raised in Rochester NY. They have participated in multiple exhibitions including at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL and David Klein Gallery in Detroit, MI. Shea received their BFA from Alfred University in 2017 and an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. They were the recipient of a Zenobia Award for a residency at Watershed Ceramics in 2018. Following their MFA, Shea recently completed a Residency at the Harvard Ceramics program.
Shea Burke
Tan Stripes, 2024, porcelain, soda-fired, china paint
$300
16” x 6” x 6”
Shea Burke
Gold Stripes, 2024, stoneware, soda-fired, gold luster
$275
15” x 7” x 7”
Shea Burke
Lemons, 2024, porcelain, sodafired, china paint, gold luster
$450
10” x 7” x 7”
Shea Burke
Strawberries, 2024, porcelain, soda-fired, china paint, gold luster
$500
13” x 9” x 9”
Shea Burke
Pink Stripes, 2024, porcelain, soda-fired, china paint
$250
15” x 6” x 6”
Shea Burke
Black Berries, 2024, porcelain, soda-fired, china paint, gold
luster
$700
13” x 9” x 9”
Simphiwe Mbunyuza
2022 Lilian Fellow, 2023 Taunt Fellow
Johannesburg, South Africa
Simphiwe Mbunyuza (b. 1989; Eastern Cape, South Africa) creates masterful objects and vessels combining stoneware, leather, fabric and steel. Simphiwe’s richly textured, confounding ceramic object are featured traditional African iconography and cultural symbols. Furthermore, to produce his work Simphiwe uses a coiling technique that has been employed by the Xhosa people for centuries. Elegant and graphic, Simphiwe’s forms and colors unify in his extraordinarily distinct ceramic objects.
Simphiwe Mbunyuza obtained an MFA from Oklahoma University and a B.Tech from Walter Sisulu University in South Africa. He has shown his work globally, including exhibitions at Guggenheim Gallery, Gallery 1957, Anderson Ranch and Marriane Boesky Gallery, among others. Honors include the Red Clay Faction Award and the Oscar Johnson Award. Simphiwe was a resident at A.I.R. Vallauris France and joins The Bray as the 2022 Lilian Fellow.
Simphiwe Mbunyuza Amaqhawekazi, 2024, ceramics
NFS
43” x 23” x 23”
Simphiwe Mbunyuza Igorha, 2024, acrylic on painting panel
NFS
30” x 40”
Simphiwe Mbunyuza
Iqhawekazi, 2024, acrylic on painting panel
NFS
30” x 40”
Simphiwe Mbunyuza
Isikhukhukazi, 2024, ceramics, sculpting dough
NFS
45” x 33” x 27”
Aida Lizalde
2024 David L. Hunter Scholar Mexico City, Mexico
Aida Lizalde builds installations integrating ceramic vessels, found materials, and biomatter. They investigate the origins of objects as initial extensions of the human body, serving functions such as containment, shelter, filtration, etc. —functions traditionally fulfilled by the body itself.
Their work aims to establish connections between opposing things like natural and unnatural elements, ancient and futuristic objects, and the biological and artificial, through hybrid speculative forms that serve as external body surrogates or extensions of the body, proposing systems of flow, drip, filtration, stagnation, bacterial growth, and decomposition as moments of metabolization outside the body.
Lizalde, originally from Aguascalientes, Mexico, immigrated to the Central Valley of California with their family at fifteen. Lizalde holds a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Aida Lizalde No Oracles, No Gracias, 2022, stoneware $600
Aida Lizalde
Orbs, 2023, earthenware
$600
Foreign Absorber with seed pod, 2023, stoneware
$600
Aida Lizalde
Corinna Cowles
2024 Senska Scholar
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Corinna Cowles’ work — pockets, pillows, paintings, curtains, wallpaper, and drapes in addition to ceramic work — is inspired by clothing and decorative patterns, engaging the viewer with absurd dislocations and transformations. Identity, craft, sculpture, domesticity, and class all seep out from a porous, multi-material plane of grids, loops, and abstractions of the everyday.
Cowles followed a traditional academic fine arts track, currently holding a BFA and MFA in painting and studio arts from Columbia College Chicago and the Tyler School of Art respectively. She is continuing her education through dialogue, self-determined projects, and skill exchange via teaching, a professional ceramics practice, and artist residencies, which include The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center.
Corinna Cowles
Diamond Portal (Ceramic Painting), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$750
13.5” x 10.5” x 3.5”
Corinna Cowles
Pattern Bloom (Vessel), 2023, stoneware, electric fired
$1,200
14” x 10” x 9”
Corinna Cowles
Woven Clay (Pink) (Ceramic Painting), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$700
9.75” x 10” x 2”
Corinna Cowles
Woven Clay (Green) (Ceramic Painting), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$700
9.75” x 9.75” x 2”
Corinna Cowles
Still Here (Vessel), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$1,000
9” x 10” x 7.5”
Corinna Cowles
Frosted Flowers (Vessel), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$1,000
14” x 5.5” x 5.75”
Corinna Cowles
Pattern Tower (Vessel), 2023, dyed stoneware, electric fired
$1,200 16.5” x 5” x 5”
Corinna Cowles
Loop Box (Vessel), 2024, stoneware, gas/reduction
$900
x 14.75” x 1.75”
Corinna Cowles
Flower Collage (Vessel), 2024, stoneware, gas/reduction
$900 7” x 7” x 7”
Jason Lee Starin
2024 Sarah Frederick Scholar
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Through intuitive making with his hands, Jason Lee Starin’s work strives to extend the role of functionality beyond mere utility and towards a possibility that the making act is a haptic necessity which defines and sustains our human identity. Employing ceramics, discarded objects, and construction materials to create sculptures, his art practice attempts to find connections between craft, escapism, and emotional awareness. Artworks reference geological landforms, geometric structures, and the myths of creation and survival that intertwine our imagined and physical identities.
Starin holds an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft, and a BFA in ceramics from Grand Valley State University. In 2017, Starin received an Independence Foundation Fellowship Grant to research his interest in Geomythology during a two-month stay at the NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Starin has worked at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, BDDW, Mudshark Studios, Michael Curry Design, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Ferris State University.
Jason Lee Starin
SOL 001, 2020, stoneware, glaze, oxidation, cone 6
$2,000
10.5” x 10.5” x 10.5”
Jason Lee Starin
SOL 002, 2020, stoneware, glaze, oxidation, cone 6
$2,000
10.5” x 10.5” x 10.5”
Jason Lee Starin
SOL 030, 2023, xps foam, papiermâché, air-dry clay, white glue, ink, acrylic
$2,000
15” x 10.5” x 10.5”
Jason Lee Starin
SOL 036, 2023, xps foam, papiermâché, air-dry clay, white glue, ink, acrylic
$2,000
15.5” x 13” x 12”
Marcè Nixon-Washington
2024 Lila Satre Scholar
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marcè Nixon-Washington’s inspirations include her lived experiences, West African textiles & ceramic history. Beneath the adornment of her work are rich meditative marks that sing songs of resistance. Coil building large vessels is the meditative process that reminds her she is here & alive. Sculpting marginalized folks makes visible the people who keep her city running. Clay is archival, and every time she creates, she hears her grandma’s laughter saying, ‘They couldn’t erase me.’
Nixon-Washington received her BFA from West Virginia University. She studied ceramics in Jingdezhen, China, where she found her love for shards and ceramic history. She investigates ceramics as an archival material to record personal and cultural history. Her work has been exhibited at The Mufei Gallery in Jingdezhen, China, The Carnegie Museum of Art, and The 2024 NCECA ANNUAL. Her residencies include The Manchester Craftsman Guild, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Media. She is a member of Union Project’s BIPOC Collaborative Studio and the notable Women of Visions.
Marcè Nixon-Washington Bus Stop Blues Mug, 2024, porcelain, underglaze, matte glaze
$55
x 4” x 3”
Marcè Nixon-Washington Teabowl (cup with crate), 2024, wild clay (Pittsburgh, PA), luster, 3d printed milk crate
$65
x 3” x 3”
3”
4”
Marcè Nixon-Washington Terracotta Locs, 2024, terracotta
$650
7” x 5” x 8”
Marcè Nixon-Washington Crate, 2024, pla 3d printed milk crate
$25
2.5” x 2.5” x 2.5”
Marcè Nixon-Washington Yellow Mudcloth Vase, 2024, porcelain, underglaze, matte glaze
$450
13” x 8” x 8”
Marcè Nixon-Washington Mini Crates, 2024, pla 3d printed milk crate
$15
1” x 1” x 1”
Priscilla Dobler Dzul
2024 John and Wanda Hicks Scholar
United States and Mexico
Priscilla Dobler Dzul is an interdisciplinary storyteller living between the borders of the United States and Mexico. She focuses on reframing the context of America’s prideful nationalism and colonization of indigenous cultures while critiquing identity and examining the structures of power in our domestic lives through multiple craft mediums. Her inspiration comes from a passion and commitment to indigenous heritage and ongoing research, which is driven by a commitment to making narrative change through social justice, racial equity, and artistic mastery.
Dobler Dzul received her MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is a recipient of grants from Artist Trust, Neddy Behnke Foundation, Nia Tero, Puffin Foundation and Robert B. McMillen Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally and is represented by Nome Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Priscilla Dobler Dzul
Vessels of Knowledge, Doce 2023, clay, henequen thorns
$3,000
16” x 12.5” x 12”
Priscilla Dobler Dzul
Vessels of Knowledge, Cinco 2022, clay
$1,500
10.5” x 9” x 8.5”
Priscilla Dobler Dzul
Vessels of Knowledge, Tres, 2022, clay, porcupine quills
$3,500
16” x 11” x 11”
Rebecca Harvey Executive Director Helena, Montana
An accomplished artist, Rebecca also brings deep experience working with complex educational institutions such as The Bray. Her academic career includes more than 25 years at The Ohio State University in numerous roles, including chair of the Department of Art, professor and chair of the senate steering committee. She also served at the Royal College of Art in London as head of programme, applied arts, and most recently was director and professor at Ball State University’s School of Art.
Rebecca Harvey has a passion for students and a commitment to the ceramic arts. As an artist, she has a keen interest in our residency program and a deep understanding of what artists need to succeed in this context. Rebecca received her MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has taken part in residencies around the world, including in Germany, Sweden, China and Iceland. Her international experience gives her an invaluable macro-vision of the ceramics world.
Rebecca Harvey Coat, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$125
10” x 6” x 3.5”
Rebecca Harvey
Black/Yellow 2, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$75
3” x 7.5” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey Yellow Grid, 2023, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$125
6” x 7” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Sausage 5, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$145
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Ball/Stick 2, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$60
2” x 4.25” x 1.25”
Rebecca Harvey Blue Stick, 2023, raw brick, altered, colored
$75
7.5” x 2.75” x 1.25”
Rebecca Harvey Stuck 1, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$175
4” x 6.5” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey
Split Ball, 2023, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$50
4” x 4” x 4”
Rebecca Harvey Cloud Boat, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$200
4” x 8” x 1”
Rebecca Harvey Yellow on Brick, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$275
9.5” x 4” x 5”
Rebecca Harvey Black/Yellow 3, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$75
3.5” x 3.5” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey Ball/Shadow, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$50
1.25” x 4.25” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey
Black/Yellow 1, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$75
4” x 4.25” x 3”
Rebecca Harvey Sausage 1, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$145
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Color Stack 1, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$195
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Shadow Pair, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$220
5” x 7” x 5”
Rebecca Harvey
Color Stack 2, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$250
3.75” x 12” x 3”
Rebecca Harvey Stretch, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$60
2.25” x 8.5” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey Sausage 2, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$145
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey
Dough, 2023, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$75
2.5” x 6.5” x 3”
Rebecca Harvey Here, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$175
4.5” x 3.5” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey Sausage 4, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$145
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Raft, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$60
5” x 6” x 2”
Rebecca Harvey Still, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$50
5” x 4” x 7”
Rebecca Harvey Yellow Stick, 2023, raw brick, altered, colored
$75
7.5” x 2.75” x 1.25”
Rebecca Harvey
Sausage 3, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$145
3” x 6” x 2.5”
Rebecca Harvey Now, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$200
6” x 3.5” x 3”
Rebecca Harvey Rest, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$75
2.75” x 3.73” x 3”
Rebecca Harvey Hill House, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$325
8.5” x 6” x 5”
Rebecca Harvey Fence, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze
$250
6.5” x 14” x 5”
Rebecca Harvey Omega, 2023, handbuilt, assembled, multiple firings
$325
8” x 5” x 4”
Rebecca Harvey Long, 2024, ceramic, glaze, over glaze, felt
$650
25” x 4” x 4”
The Bray has always been an ongoing experiment, a place and experience with no artistic boundaries. The extensive facilities, the freedom to explore and the creative exchange that occurs within the community of resident artists provide a profound opportunity for artistic growth, both for individual artists and for the field of ceramics.
Each fellowship awards $7,500 to a long-term resident artist and each scholarship awards $1,500 to a summer resident artist; additional funds are provided by the Windgate Foundation to cover The Bray’s studio costs for each resident.
Fellowship support is made possible by: Paulette Etchart and Jon Satre, Christian Frazza, Joan and David Lincoln, Quigley-Hiltner Family, Speyer Family Foundation, Suzanne Francoeur Taunt and Anonymous donors.
Scholarship support is made possible by: Linda Carlson, John and Wanda Hicks, Susan J. and Henry K. Ricklefs, Paulette Etchart and Jon Satre, and Friends and Family of Sarah Frederick.
Please contact Executive Director, Rebecca Harvey, at rharvey@archiebray.org if you are interested in direct resident support.
