"Chase"
Potsketch by James Bailey
Media: Monotype, collage, graphite
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

James Bailey was born in New Jersey, and grew up in Minneapolis, MN. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an artist and Professor in the School of Art at The University of Montana. In 1998 he established Matrix Press and runs the Annual Day of the Dead Steamroller Print Project. James has exhibited his work in over 300 exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work can be found in numerous collections including those of the Walker Art Center, New York Public Library, Jundt Art Museum among others. He was also included in the documentary film titled Midwest Matrix and he serves on the board for the Printmaking Legacy Project.

"Donkey in the Rain"
Potsketch by Courtney Blazon
Media: Graphite
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Courtney Blazon is an artist and illustrator living and working in Missoula. She is a graduate from Parsons School of Design, where she received her BFA in Illustration. She has shown in Missoula at The Radius Gallery, The Brink Gallery and The UC Gallery. Outside of Montana, her work has been shown in Seattle, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (Western Edition), Studio Visit Magazine, and juxtapoz.com. She received a Montana Arts Council Artists Innovation Award in 2011. She is represented by Radius Gallery in Missoula, MT.

"Persimmon on Floral Plate"
Potsketch by Isobel Buck
Media: ink, watercolor, pastel, graphite on watercolor paper
Dimensions: 5x5"

Isobel Buck is a graphic designer and illustrator living in and originally from Missoula. She spent many years in Colorado where she worked as a graphic designer and taught graphic design for Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs. Before that, she received her B.A. in Art from the University of Montana in 1996. Her digital art stems from her traditional media sketches and studies of nature - flowers, weeds, trees, bugs, and animals - particularly rabbits. She loves to paint in watercolors and oils. Her digital work is implemented mainly through the tool of Adobe Illustrator, and always with the help of a graphics tablet.

"Lotus and Teapot"
Potsketch by Leland Buck
Media: Drypoint Etching
Dimensions: 6 x 6"


Leland Buck is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, audio recordist, and coder exploring communities through documentary, travel, and portraiture. He lives in Missoula, MT.

"Skyhoney Danglers"
Potsketch by Eva Champagne
Media: collage, gouache, india ink, pencil, sodafired porcelain stoneware blend, 925 sterling silver
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Eva Champagne is an American ceramic artist and educator, raised in the great cultural melting pot of Hong Kong. She has taught in both university and workshop settings in the US and abroad, focusing on such topics as soda firing, soda kiln building, ceramic surface techniques for all temperatures and firings, wheel throwing, and a wide variety of hand building methods. Her work and writing have been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated, among other publications. Eva's ceramic work is exhibited in the US and internationally. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from Humboldt State University, completed Post-Baccalaureate study at the University of Florida, and earned her M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of Montana-Missoula. Eva has traveled extensively for artist residencies including AIR Vallauris in France, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, Red Lodge Clay Center and The Clay Studio of Missoula in Montana, and Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali, Indonesia. She returned to Gaya Ceramic Arts Center twice after her residency to lead workshops, before joining to serve as Managing Director for five and a half years. Recently, she returned to western Montana and continues her studio practice. In the spring of 2025 she will be leading workshops in California and Idaho, and in the fall, Europe.

"Pastoral?"
Potsketch by Lane Chapman
Media: Woodblock relief print
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Lane Chapman is a utilitarian potter influenced by the natural world. Starting out as a painter and illustrator, she transitioned into clay after being hooked by her first class. Lane obtained a BFA in ceramics in 2017 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. After graduating, she moved to Rochester, NY for a two-year residency at the Flower City Arts Center. Lane was a long-term resident at The Clay Studio of Missoula from 2019-2021, and was a resident at Wildfire Ceramic Studio shortly thereafter. She is currently pursuing her MFA in ceramics at University of Montana.

Potsketch by Jennifer Combe
Media: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Jennifer Combe is an artist, mother, and Professor of Art at The University of Montana. Before shifting to higher education, she taught K12 in Washington State public schools for fifteen years. Her visual work investigates gender, contemporary mothering, and neurodiversity. Her visual work has been exhibited at The Missoula Art Museum, Holter Museum of Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Radius Gallery, The Midwest Center for Photography, and the Washington Center for Performing Arts. She is invested in educational programs that integrate community arts and social theory. Her work has been featured in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and Visual Arts Research. Her work is featured in the book, An Artist and a Mother, published by Demeter Press. Her most recent publication is Collaboration with the Land: Connection Through Making, in the book Transformative Motherscholarship in Art: Public Pedagogies of Childhood, published by Bloomsbury in the Feminist Thought in Research Series.

"A Hand"
Potsketch by Stephanie Dishno
Media: Clay and Glaze
Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 4"

Stephanie Dishno is an artist and educator creating work in Billings, Montana. Currently, she is the Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Montana State University Billings. In 2023 Stephanie was a guest speaker and demonstrator at IMPACT - Fourteenth Conference on Architecture, Art, and Design, University of Monterrey, Monterrey MX. Prior to this, Stephanie instructed at The University of Montana Western and was an Artisan at Studio Greytak. From 2020 to 2022, she was a Long-Term Resident Artist at the Clay Studio of Missoula and was the Studio Manager and Co-Founder of Wildfire Ceramic Studio. Stephanie has also attended two short-term residencies at Red Lodge Clay Center and was a Co-Director for a year and a half at FrontierSpace Art Gallery in Missoula, Montana.

Stephanie's education in the arts includes a BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in 2012, a Post-Baccalaureate from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2016, and an MFA from the University of Montana in 2020.

Potsketch by Chris Dufala
Media: Pencil and paper
Dimensions 5 x 5"

Chris Dufala was born and raised in New Jersey and received his MFA in Spatial Arts/Ceramics at San Jose State University. Chris is dedicated to his studio practice, maintaining an active exhibition record, is a former resident of the Archie Bray Foundation, The Clay Studio of Missoula and Osage Artists Community. He has instructed as faculty, lectured on his working process, and led visiting artist demonstrations at several institutions, including: NCECA, University of Montana, Montana State University Bozeman, State University of New York Fredonia, Bowling Green State University, and Western Michigan University. To name a few. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Ceramics/3D at Santa Ana College in Southern California.

Potsketch by Avi Farber
Media: Ponderosa Charcoal, Porcelain, Stoneware
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Avi is a multimedia artist working with woodfired ceramics, documentary photography, 3D Printing, and new media/sound, based in New Mexico. After earning a degree in Philosophy at Bates College, Avi took a job fighting wildfires for the US Forest Service, then pursue a Masters in Interdisciplinary Design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Avi's work has been exhibited internationally, and his documentary photography of wildfires has been recognized by National Geographic magazine. Avi was a short term resident at the Clay Studio of Missoula in July 2024.

Potsketch by Cait Finley
Media: Paper, glue, plaster, mason stain
Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 4"

Cait Finley is an American artist working in Montana. Their work is about the differences between human perceptions of time, and geological time. Using sculpture, writing, video, and performance, to fantasize kinships with entities much larger and more nebulous herself. Preferring to think of things like petroleum, capitalism, and global warming as entities in order to see more clearly how they fit into human narrative timelines. And exploring the ways humans attempt to speed up and slow down geological time to more comfortably align with our corporeal, fleeting understanding of being.

Finley received an MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University in Syracuse NY and a BFA in Ceramics from The University of Montana in Missoula MT. Exhibiting nationally at Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL; Art Helix, Brooklyn NY; CB1, Los Angeles CA; Cornell University, Ithaca NY, and internationally Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City Mexico, Bunsunrad Gallery, Bangkok Thailand and Das Gift, Berlin Germany. She has been the recipient of The Freeman Asia Fellowship, Mansfield Fellowship, and granted artist in residence at The University of Montana Missoula MT, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass CO, OxBow in Saugatuck MN, as well as the Turner Residency in Los Angeles CA.

"Single User"
Potsketch by Ron Geibel
Media: Porcelain
Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5"


Ron Geibel received an MFA from the University of Montana. Geibel has exhibited his work in Canada and throughout the United States including the New York Ceramics and Glass Fair, NYC; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston; and Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati. Ceramics Monthly Magazine recognized Geibel as an emerging artist in 2015. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX.

"Lolo Creek III"
Potsketch by Bev Beck Glueckert
Media: Relief Print
Dimensions: 5 x 5 "

Bev is a long-time Missoula artist and art educator. She studied art at University of Providence- Great Falls, MSU- Eastern, University of Idaho, and graduate studies in printmaking at University of MT.

Lolo Creek III (potsketch) came out of a body of work from her Open Air residency in 2024 at Travelers Rest State Park.

Potsketch by Arthur Gonzalez
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 5x 5"

Arthur Gonzalez is an internationally exhibiting artist with over fifty one-person shows in the last forty years, including eight in Manhattan, New York. He has received many awards including the Virginia Groot Foundation twice and is an unprecedented four-time recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship within a ten-year period. He is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu, Japan, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Goodwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College New York, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and most recently, the Holter Museum in Helena MT. He is the author of "The Art of Rejection" an autobiography of a career through reaction drawings on rejection letters. He is a tenured Professor at the California College of the Arts. Gonzalez has been an artist-in-residence in many places including University of Georgia, Athens, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Penland School of Craft, North Carolina, University of Akron in Ohio, Tainan National University in Taiwan, Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.

Potsketch by Matthew Hamon
Media: hand cut, found photograph
Dimensions: 5.5 x 6.5 "

Matthew Hamon is a portrait photographer who lives in rural Montana. His photography exists conceptually and aesthetically in the spaces between photojournalism and staged editorial imagery. Matt hails from a small, remote town in Northern California. A sense of place informed by wandering the woods as a child inspires his enquiry. Self-described as "post-rural," Matt currently lives in Potomac, Montana near the Blackfoot River and teaches in the School of Art at the University of Montana in Missoula. Matt is a featured artist in Scott Ligon's forthcoming book from Watson-Guptil/Random House, "Digital Art Revolution." Matt's work has been featured on CNN, Outside Magazine, LifeFramer, 1 Million Photographers (1MP), 6Mois.fr, and Month of Photography, Los Angeles (MOPLA).

"So Hot"
Potsketch by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
Media: Hand-stitched cotton and Round embroidery
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Maggy Rozycki Hiltner is a full-time studio artist and activist living in Red Lodge, MT. She comes from a family of makers: her mother and grandmother's needlepointed pillows, made quilts, and stitched or knitted their clothes and toys; her father built odd things and cooked outrageous meals and painted murals in their home. Hiltner searches antique shops, thrift stores and yard sales for embroidered linens, collecting the brightly colored flowers, foliage, and animals that appear in her work. What she cannot find she hand-stitches and mixes in with the collected embroidery. She uses the familiarity of the stitch along with seemingly lighthearted and cheerful designs to convey more serious subject matter. She often uses humor and Dick and Jane-style characters to tell her stories, and very rarely is everything quite what it seems.

"Defender"
Potsketch by Barb Schwarz Karst
Media: Oil & Vintage Collage on Canvas Panel
Dimensions: 7 x 5"

Barb Schwarz Karst is a contemporary painter who is best known for her series, Montana Rust Belt, which focuses on abstract close ups of machines used centuries ago during the country's early labor development. Her other bodies of work include her Stark Unreality Abstract Expression series, Crucible portraits on casted aluminum, and Shifting Winds blind grid Western genre portraits. She has twice received a fellowship and mentorship through The Art Institute of Chicago and holds MIS and BS degrees in Art/Art Education. She shows annually in New York City and her works have been featured in worldwide exhibitions and publications.

Barb Schwarz Karst is the owner and founder of Schwarz karst Studio- a contemporary art studio located in Missoula, Montana. Her innovative conception of the blind grid process and unique ability to blend traditional materials with unconventional media brings a flare of contemporary freshness to the global art community. Barb's expression of deeply personal subjects through her paintings acts as the catalyst for her historically powerful portraits and contemporary abstract paintings. Barb has acquired numerous accolades, publications, and extensive professional training; and her professional works have been featured in exhibitions, museums, print publications and private collections around the globe.

Potsketch by Hannah Kautto
Media: ceramic
Dimensions: 6 x 5 x 2"


Hannah Kautto was born and raised in Rochester, MN. Kautto's work navigates the dialogue between objects and the power they have for interpretation through exploration of the utility of objects and questioning their purpose. She received an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Community and Technical College (MN) in 2015. After graduation, she moved to Minneapolis, where she spent two years working in a ceramic production studio and in 2018, moved to Missoula, MT. Kautto was a summer resident at the Clay Studio of Missoula in 2023 and in 2024, was awarded a BFA in ceramics from the University of Montana (Missoula).

"Two Lips"
Potsketch by Zola Kell
Media: Watercolor Pencil Crayons
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Zola is a queer mixed-media artist, and everything she makes is a celebration and a declaration of her queerness. She is currently fascinated by creating playful objects, working with textile media and salvaged materials to give life to sculptural forms. Her pieces range from meditations on how her queerness blooms in her body and her life, to reveries on mythic figures that were imprinted on her in childhood and investigations into the magic of the natural world. She lives in a very, very small commune.

"Radiant Zinnia"
Potsketch by Alex Kraft
Media: Porcelain and glaze
Dimensions: 2 x 4.5 x 4.5"

Alex Kraft earned her BFA, Bsed at Northern Arizona University and MFA at the University of Montana. Artist residencies include short-term: Archie Bray Foundation; Clay Studio of Missoula; Pentaculum/Arrowmont; Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts; Red Lodge Clay Center (x3); Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center; Jingdezhen Tioxichuan International Studio; and long-term: Arrowmont; Roswell Artist in Residence Program. Among other endeavors, experience writing and curating include the large-scale NCECA exhibitions and social media project 50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contribution to Ceramics; Nasty Women/Artaxis; and Critical Function: 4 Critics/40 Artists(x2). As Associate Professor she oversees the ceramics program at the University of North Georgia-Dahlonega.

"MT. Ash"
Potsketch by Kathryn Kress
Media: Mixed media on board
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Kathryn Kress is a 4th generation Montanan. She graduated from the University of Montana in 1971 with a BFA in drawing and printmaking. Kathryn has made a career as a studio artist since the late 1970's. She has made a living as a design consultant for residential and commercial interiors and exteriors for 30 years. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in private and public collections throughout the western United States.

"We Do Different the Same"
Potsketch by Steven Krutek
Media: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 5" x 5"

Steven Krutek studied art at Colorado College, the University of Montana (MFA), SALT Institute for Documentary Field Studies, and with photographer Stuart Klipper. Steven teaches drawing, two-dimensional foundations, photography, painting, art history, art education, and a course for the Wilderness and Civilization program at the University of Montana. He has also taught elementary and secondary students in various capacities since 1997. Steven has exhibited work throughout the Inland Northwest and internationally. His work has recently been published on the cover and within The Sun Magazine. Through his current work, Steven seeks to reconcile art's inherently wasteful creative processes with art's ability to communicate environmental awareness. When he isn't teaching, making art, or spending time with his family, Steven performs Balinese music with the Missoula-based community gamelan, Manik Harum.

"Insight is earned"
Potsketch by Ladypajama
Media: Mixed media on cereal box
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Ladypajama is an artist, writer, lover of life. She is a self-taught artist who believes that the act of creating is more important than the products produced from creating. Using art to grow, emote, and meditate are essential in her life. Ladypajama publishes a monthly zine that she sends out via the mail. She likes to think of this zine as a memoir in real time. She is also an avid journaler and is constantly making art. When asked what kind of art she makes she usually responds, "flat art." She mostly creates two-dimensional art. Mixing paint, pencils, pens, and collage materials, she often builds scenes with awkward looking people and mutated animals. Always interesting and always changing, Ladypajama's art hopes to inspire and interest all who view it.

"Don't Forget To Breathe"
Potsketch by Elena Lourenco
Media: Organza & cotton thread over printed image on wood block
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1.5

Elena Lourenco received her MFA in Sculpture from Arizona State University in 2007. As a graduate student, she received a travel scholarship to study the physical and spiritual connection between people and the landscape along the Ganges River in India, which had a profound effect on her work. As a post-graduate student, she studied abroad at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Lourenco creates mixed media objects and installations that communicate powerful narratives about both society and self- utilizing metaphor to communicate ideas of causality, change, loss and their resulting effects on the human psyche. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across the US and Internationally including Scotland, Latvia, and Italy. Lourenco has taught all levels of Sculpture since 2008, and currently lives and works in southern California where she teaches in the Division of Fine and Performing Arts at Santa Ana College.

"Paintbrush"
Potsketch by Katie S. Machain
Media: Reduction Linocut Print
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Katie Machain is a Missoula based artist who works primarily in woodcut printmaking. She received her BFA from The University of Montana in 2013 and has continued to develop her artistic ability as a professional picture framer for the Art Attic Framing and Design. Katie is married with two children and enjoys spending time with them outdoors where she feels the most inspired. For more information, visit her website at www.katiemachain.com

Potsketch by Cathryn Mallory
Media: Crocheted cotton twine, acrylic paint, copper tubing
Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 2"


Cathryn Mallory recently retired after 30 years of teaching and serving as director for the Gallery of Visual Arts within the School of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Montana-Missoula. Originally from the Chicago area, she received her BFA in fiber from Northern Illinois University and MFA in sculpture from the University of Oklahoma. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions on a regional and national level and is featured in the permanent collections of several major museums in Montana, South Dakota, and Nevada. Mallory also serves on the board of directors for the Clay Studio of Missoula.

"Ascending"
Potsketch by Jonathan Marquis
Media: Colored Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Jonathan Marquis is a multi-disciplinary artist and mountaineer seeking immersive experiences with wildland terrain to consider more-than-human geographies. His investigations began as an endeavor to draw the remaining glaciers in Montana. He has since covered thousands of miles on foot, translating his encounters through drawing, painting, video, and alternative photographic processes.
Marquis received his MFA from the University of Arizona. He launched the Glacier Drawing Project on Kickstarter and debuted the completed project at the Missoula Art Museum. His works have been exhibited nationally and abroad, including at the SFO Museum, the Center for Visual Arts in Denver, 516 arts in Albuquerque, NM, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, and the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Marquis is an arts educator at Pima Community College and The University of Arizona. He splits his time between Montana and Arizona. For more information, visit www.jonathanmarquis.com and on Instagram @jonathanbmarquis.

"Jar"
Potsketch by George McCauley
Media: Paint, gouache, ink, gold leaf
Dimensions 5 x 5"

George Metropoulos McCauley, a Greek/American potter, has had 30 solo shows and has been included in 300 exhibitions. He has taught and conducted workshops internationally. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants and his pottery and sculpture are included in international collections in 12 countries and multiple publications. McCauley continues to have a busy workshop and exhibition schedule and still finds time to produce his own local television show," George's House of Interesting Things" on HCTV, and "GHOC Wednesday Night Videos on the internet. He has 2 films to his credit, "Archie C. Bray, Life at the Brickyard" 2008 and "Ron Meyers and the Usual Suspects" 2013. Additionally McCauley has been working with the low income and disabled community for 40 years. He maintains a studio at his home in Helena, Montana where he makes colorful earthenware pots, high temperature wood firing, earthenware wood firing and narrative sculpture. Along the way he has worked as a chef in a Greek restaurant, full-time cowboy/horse trainer, concrete inspector, aluminum siding salesman, western catalog model, lifeguard and carpenter.

"Crevice"
Potsketch by Jack Metcalf
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 7x7x1"


Jack Metcalf spent his youth in the swamps of the southeast smearing the line of where illusion ends and reality begins. His creations emulate a diary of sorts. The work balances draftsman precision with an ambiguous blather of imagination, insight, and delight. Metcalf studied architecture at Savannah College of Art and Design, printmaking at East Carolina University, and earned his MFA at UM. Metcalf's work has been exhibited locally and nationally. He is currently active within the Missoula art community and runs Real ODD Good JOB.

"Goin' Back"
Potsketch by David Miles Lusk
Media: Hand colored print
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


David Miles Lusk is an artist living and working out of Missoula, Montana. David received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Montana in 2014. He is inspired by the intersection of science and mythology, nature and humanity.

"Bumblebee"
Potsketch by Prisilla Mouritzen
Media: Lithograph
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Priscilla Mouritzen was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She studied at the School of Art, Durban, South Africa. In 1979 she moved to Denmark where she serves on the board of directors for Guldagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center, and maintains a studio north of Copenhagen. Priscilla's work has been shown at the Museum of Anthropology, Xalapa, Mexico, 20+1 Tozan Kilns, Arizona Presenters Exhibition, and The Clay Studio of Missoula, where she had a solo exhibition in 2006. Most of Priscilla's work is pinched in porcelain clay and wood fired. The scale is intimate, as demanded by the pinching process. The works show a use of pattern that echoes memories of her childhood in Africa.

Potsketch by Daniel Mrgan
Media: Woodburning, colored pencils, woodstain
Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5"


I am a graphic designer and illustrator currently residing in Missoula, Montana. My work and influences can best be described as one small, weathered building on the edge of town with creaky wood floors and a broken elevator, occupied by tenants such as silent cinema, Eastern-European stop-motion animation, folk art, melancholy, and music - all sitting around, drinking tea, eating soft boiled eggs, and watching Olympic games, nature documentaries, and arthouse cartoons all night long. If I'm not drawing, I'm probably cooking, reading, or riding my bike to a quiet place in the woods.

Potsketch by Courtney Murphy
Media: Gauche
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Courtney Murphy began working in clay while living in Brooklyn, NY. After several years of working for potters around the city, she moved to Portland, OR and received a post-baccalaureate in ceramics from the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Courtney moved to Montana in the summer of 2009 for a ceramic residency at the Archie Bray Foundation. She was a resident at the Clay Studio of Missoula from 2012-2014, and currently serves on the board of directors.

"Companionship"
Potsketch by Janina Myronova
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions 5 x5"

Janina Myronowa 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, Myronowa's works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.

Janina 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, Myronowa has attended numerous residencies including opportunities at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan), Clayarch Gimhae Museum (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. She is currently a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation.

"From a Dream"
Potsketch by Jill Oberman
Media: Cut Paper, Watercolor
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Jill Oberman is currently the Curator and Gallery Coordinator at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana. Moving to Red Lodge from Carbondale, Colorado, Jill recently worked as a studio artist and as an Educator at the Aspen Art Museum, and served two terms as the Secretary of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Jill earned her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Crafts, and her BA from Hamilton College. She has been a resident artist at numerous art institutions, notably the Anderson Ranch, the Archie Bray Foundation, and Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts. Past employment includes work as the Executive Director of the Carbondale Clay Center, the Executive Director of the Clay Studio of Missoula, the Programs and Administration Director at the Archie Bray Foundation, and the Studio Manager of the ceramics program at the Anderson Ranch Art Center. While in her studio Jill focuses on creating minimal, architectural ceramic sculptures that have been widely exhibited throughout the United States, as well as sharing her passion of ceramics through conversation with anyone and everyone who will listen.

"Automatic Work Amongst The Horses (Between You and Me) - A Self Portrait of Us"
Potsketch by Jerod Peitsmeyer
Media: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 5x5"


Jerod Peitsmeyer is both a working studio artist, having recently created and designed product labels and an album cover, as well as an art historian and student of contemporary visual culture and community. His pursuits revolve around creating and expanding access to art by reimagining and reconstructing institutional paradigms. Jerod recently received an MA in Art with a concentration in Art History from University of Montana.

"After Maurizio Cattelan"
Potsketch by Jazmine Penelope
Media: Stoneware, glaze, duct tape
Dimensions 5 x 5"


Jazmine has a BA in visual art from Bennington College (2008) and a BS in Ecology and Organismal Biology from the University of Montana (2023). She is a multidisciplinary artist with a specialty in ceramics and biological illustration. She is inspired by the traces of the intimate in human history and the earthly interweavings of humanity and nature. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her partner Lee Stuurmans, their two cats, a garden, too many houseplants, and their new little daughter.

Potsketch by Brandon Reintjes
Media: Cigar Box and Mixed Media
Dimensions: 9.5 x 9.5 x 1.5"


Brandon Reintjes has concentrated most aspects of his life on creating art and celebrating art made by others. Though he works as Senior Curator at the Missoula Art Museum, he maintains a regular studio practice. He received his undergraduate degree in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MA in curatorial and critical studies from the University of Louisville.

"It All Measures Up"
Potsketch by Karl Schwiesow
Media: Resin, Tape Measure, Glitter, Magnets
Dimensions 5 x 5"


Karl Schwiesow is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media. He has a background in carpentry and furniture design, sculpture, ceramics, a variety of 2-dimensional media, including photography. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Sierra Nevada College and a Masters of Fine Art from the University Of Montana. He has been an artist in residence at a variety of prestigious ceramic artist residencies including the Red Lodge Clay Center, Sonoma Community Center, and the Archie Bray Foundation. Karl is teaching a variety of fine art classes at the University of Montana.

Potsketch by Richard Shaw
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 5x5"

Richard Shaw was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA in 1965. He completed his MFA at the University of California at Davis in 1968. He began teaching at the San Francisco Art institute in 1966 where he taught for twenty years. He recently retired from teaching at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught ceramics and drawing. One of two National Endowments Grants allowed him to explore a photo silkscreen method of reproducing decals and allowed him to work with a professional silkscreen artist, perfecting ceramic transfers. Richard has been a resident artist at Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park in Japan, the Manufacture National de Sevres in Paris, the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the Peter Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. He was elected as a fellow of the American Crafts Council in 1998, Honorary Member of NCECA (the National Council of Education in Ceramic Arts) in 2010 and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Legends Award 2011. His work is collected in both private and public collections nationally and internationally. Public collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Art, The Taipai Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Victoria Albert Museum.

"Nine Patch"
Potsketch by Kelli Sinner
Media: Porcelain, Handmade Paper
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x .5"

Kelli Sinner received an MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University and a BFA in Ceramics from Utah State University. Before moving to Montana, Kelli was a Professor of Art at Minnesota State University Moorhead, teaching ceramics, papermaking, exhibitions, and design. Kelli has completed artist residencies at the Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin, Germany; Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina; Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana; and The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT.

Potsketch by David Scott Smith
Media: Ceramic, glass
Dimensions: 4.5 x 7 x 5"


David Scott Smith is originally from Spokane, WA. He has lived for extended periods of time in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Louisiana. He received his MFA from Louisiana State University and worked for several years at Southern Louisiana University and Flathead Valley Community College teaching ceramics and 3-D design. He currently is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. David has been featured numerous times in Ceramics Monthly magazine, including the article David Scott Smith: A Bricolage of Light.

"The Secret Garden Series: Ways of Seeing"
Potsketch by Heather Stockton
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


A second generation born and raised Missoulian, Heather Shibahn Stockton spent most of her youth being encouraged to explore, learn, and create art in the mountains that surrounded her parents' home. With continued support from her family and friends, Heather earned a BA in Fine Arts, an MFA in Media Arts with an emphasis in Integrated Digital Media, a K-12 State of Montana Teaching License through The University of Montana. She is currently in her 7th year serving as Operations Executive for the Zootown Arts Community Center. Her spare time is spent exploring the nearby mountains and water with her husband Sam, and pups Larry Walker & Peter Forsberg.

"That's No Pipe"
Potsketch by Lee Stuurmans
Media: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 6.25 x 6.25"

Lee Stuurmans is also not a pipe, but he is homomorphic to a torus, so in that way he has a great deal more in common with a pipe than a banana. That feels important. Now, it's also important to point out that Lee Stuurmans is largely innumerate in his current condition. He believes that the peanut butter of blame can be spread equally between himself and the education he received as a lad. However, Lee Stuurmans is optimistic about his prospects to gain numeracy as he ages. Much hay is made about the potential of youth, but what of the potential for personal growth among adults? Lee Stuurmans has long observed that adults are just strong children, and perhaps we ought to act as though this were true, to treat our contemporaries gently and encourage them in their interests, and celebrate their victories with genuine happiness.

"Release"
Potsketch by Patricia Thornton
Media: Monotype Print
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

Patricia Thornton uses art is the instrument through which her ideas, life stories, and observations take form. She works with a wide range of two-dimensional media, including installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and photography (depending on the needs of the piece). Her approach to making art is process based, experimental, and playful.

Potsketch by Patti Warashina
Media: Pencil and ink on paper
Dimensions: 5x5"

Patti Warashina was born in Spokane, Washington. She went to college in Seattle, and received her BFA, and later her MFA from the University of Washington. While in college, she studied with sculptors Robert Sperry, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shoji and Shinsaku Hamada, and Ruth Penington. Her first solo exhibition was in 1962 at the Phoenix Art Gallery. Warashina later married fellow student Fred Bauer, and from 1964 to 1970, exhibited as Patti Bauer. Warashina's work is best known for satire, humor, and dream-state figures, expressed through low fire polychrome ceramic material. She has received numerous awards for her achievements. Together with fellow artists Robert Sperry, Howard Kotler, and Fred Bauer, Warashina helped to bring national recognition to the department of ceramics at the University of Washington's School of Art in the late 1970's.

"Along the Path"
Potsketch by Teresa Garland Warner
Media: Oil
Dimensions: 5 x 5"

After balancing a medical practice and painting for 30 years, Teresa turned to art full time in 2009. Based in Missoula, she has shown locally at Cassens Fine Art, Dana Gallery, Radius Gallery, and Paws Up. Statewide, she has exhibited at the Missoula Art Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, where she was invited to participate in the exhibition Montana Women in the Visual Arts, 1860-2011. Nationally she juried into Salon International, National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 (Receiving a Merit Award); Oil Painters of America 2020 Western Regional Exhibition, American Artists Professional League 92nd Grand National Exhibition 2020 at Salmagundi Club in New York City, Brinton 101 in 2022 at The Brinton Museum, Big Horn, WY, and Sears Museum 38th Annual Invitational, St George, UT in 2025. Art Renewal Center juried one of her paintings as finalist and two more as semi-finalists in the 17th ARC International Salon in 2024.

"Tough Yet Tender"
Potsketch by Kaitlynn Webster
Media: Collage
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Kaitlynn Webster is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work explores the links between time, our relationships to one another, and the self. She is fascinated by and devoted to collaboration. Her current practice embraces the dynamic exchange of collaborative, community zine-making, as well as experimental film photography. She does not know how her camera works and frankly, she likes it better that way. She completed a BA at Fresno State, an MFA from the National University of Ireland, Galway and a certificate in curation from the School for Curatorial Studies, Venice. She now works at The Clay Studio of Missoula and lives in a very, very small commune.

"After Dark"
Potsketch by Adelheid West
Media: Paper and glue
Dimensions: 5 x 5"


Adelheid West found home in Missoula's Northside neighborhood in 2009 after a long drive from Stillwater, Oklahoma. She raises food and a family, and turns pots at the Clay Studio of Missoula. Heidi recently held elected office as Ward 1 City Council Representative. Heidi has BAs in Political Science and Studio Art with minors in German and Horticulture as well as a MS in Plant and Soil Science, all from Oklahoma State University.

"Simmer"
Potsketch by Derick Wycherly
Media: Ink and Goauche
Dimensions 5x5"


Derick Wycherly is an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy, Montana and a visual artist who specializes in printmaking and papermaking. Derick received an MFA in 2022 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Printmaking and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Film/Animation/Video in 2011. Between degrees he worked at Harlan & Weaver, a renowned intaglio studio in New York City. Derick's prints on handmade paper can be found in Hand Papermaking's Paper Portfolio #14, "The Language of Color". Derick is currently the Associate Curator and Collections Manager of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture in Missoula, MT.