Ceramics & Crafts Artists
Kirk Belding
Potter and resident of Virginia City, MT, Kirk loves to experiment with different clays, techniques, shapes and glazes. His signature glaze is a “crackle” glaze, creating his unique salt fired pottery. After each piece is loaded in and the kiln is heated to temperature, unexpected things start to happen. Salt and fire interact, the glaze splinters and cracks. Kirk’s hope is that each piece has a whimsical personality, both in use and on the shelf.
Claudia Poser
Ceramics and Mixed Media
Poser creates ceramic wall sculptures, jewelry, and mixed media art that experiment with shape, color, and pattern. She combines the organic with the inorganic, both in material and detail, and is inspired by the tension between order and emotion, the rational and the natural.
Tina DeWeese
Wire Horse Sculpture
Tina is a lifetime horse lover. Growing up with them in our western landscape, she became a student of their bodies, movements, and habits. Tina bends and twists wire to create simple horse sculptures in a variety of poses and actions.
Charbaby Clay
Charlotte Danreuther of Charbaby Clay is a ceramicist based in Big Sandy, MT. Her playful glazes and simple shapes delight with little effort.
Jo Newhall
Jo Newhall is based in Livingston, MT. Her art is a playful celebration of the wilds of Montana. She highlights images of her Montana life, aspen trees, birds, and wildflowers, in unique hand built stoneware pieces. Her glaze palette is full of bright colors sure to spark joy.
North Ridge Ceramics
A native of New Hampshire, Chris Bieniek of North Ridge Ceramics followed his love of the mountains to Montana, where he now takes inspiration for his art from the beautiful natural surroundings. His current body of work involves explorations with local materials, such as digging for natural clay to mix into unique glazes. Chris holds a BFA from Montana State University in Ceramics.
Silkwood Pottery
Kevin Silkwood is a ceramic artist and educator living in Hamilton, MT. His work, much of it fired with the traditionally Japanese Raku technique, is guided by attention to form and surface. Silkwood teaches high school, adult education classes, and workshops. He is a founding member of the ceramic co-op Clay Works! in the Bitterroot.
April Leavey
April Leavey is a ceramicist based out of Clyde Park, MT. Her work is delightful to hold and makes one feel taken care of.