About This Event
Tinworks Art: In Conversation, The Earth Beneath Our Feet
Legacy of Clay: Bozeman, Montana Ceramics, and the Archie Bray Foundation
April 23, 7-9:15pm, Rialto Bozeman
For the second year in a row, Tinworks Art: In Conversation brings together artists, writers, scientists, and creative thinkers from various fields to discuss the topics of our time. From March to July, Tinworks will convene thought leaders from the region and beyond for a series of conversations titled The Earth Beneath our Feet. The conversations have been developed in consideration of Tinworks’ 2025 exhibition season, running June 21 - October 18, which will feature ceramic, clay, and earthen artworks by regional and international, historical and contemporary artists, and a continued activation of Tinworks’ field by ecological artist Agnes Denes. Development and speaker invitation for this second series has been in collaboration with Mary Stein and Mary Murphy.
Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted at the Rialto Theater in downtown Bozeman. Tinworks Art is an artist- and community- centered nonprofit organization and art space that contributes to the cultural and social fabric of greater Bozeman by supporting inclusive and immersive contemporary art experiences for artists and audiences in non-traditional spaces, where art meets the American West.
Host Rick Newby, Poet. Author. Editor.
Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky (with Suzanne Hunger); An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’ Project (with Megan Hiller, Alexandra Swaney, and Elaine Peterson); and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of FriedaFligelman (with Alexandra Swaney); and Roger Dunsmore’s On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966–2018. Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared in national and international journals and in numerous exhibition catalogs. Rick’s most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell – My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959–2016, which received the High Plains Book Award, Art/Photography, 2018. In 2024, Drumlummon Institute published Rick’s selected essays, A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022.
Josh DeWeese, Artist. Director MSU School of Art. Former Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.
Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He is currently Director of Montana State University School of Art and Professor of ceramics. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. DeWeese has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. Together with artist Dean Adams he co-founded the International Wild Clay Research Project, studying the use of indigenous ceramic materials and processes around the world, traveling to China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Chile, Brazil, and Italy.
Event Schedule
7pm - Doors open. Browse books for sale by our speakers courtesy of the Country Bookshelf. Book signing by author Rick Newby.
7:30pm - Tickets will be sold to waiting list participants whom are present at the Rialto from ticket holders who have not arrived and thereby have forfeited their tickets.
7:45pm - Speakers will begin, question and answer period will follow.
9:15pm - Event concludes.
Many people are interested in this event! We ask that you purchase tickets if you are committed to attending. Ticket purchase ahead of time is recommended and we limit sales to two tickets per person. If you are unable to attend your workshop please contact angela.yonke@tinworksart.org within 48 hours of the event to ensure we are able to pass your ticket to someone on the waiting list in a timely manner. Tinworks understands that unforeseen circumstances may arise, but we ask that you contact us as soon as possible if you know you are unable to attend.
Want to gift someone a ticket? You can sponsor another who may otherwise be unable to participate by purchasing a "Gift Ticket".
If registration fills, a "Waiting List" option will become available and you can select this to be added to a que. We will contact these individuals as spots become available. We also recommend those on the waiting list come to the Rialto the night of the event to be sold available tickets the most quickly.
Parking downtown can be tricky, so we recommend arriving with plenty of time and using the parking garage located on Tracy Avenue or coming via public transportation.
Have a question, or would you like to request sponsored (free) tickets for yourself or your students contact angela.yonke@tinworksart.org. Committed attendance requests only please.
For more information
To learn about our exhibition programming and to stay informed about what's going on at Tinworks Art sign up for our newsletter on our website www.tinworksart.org and follow us on social media.
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/tinworksartbozeman)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tinworksart/)
Interested in making a donation? Help support our quality programming for all ages this season by visiting https://www.tinworksart.org/give.
About This Event
Tinworks Art: In Conversation, The Earth Beneath Our Feet
Legacy of Clay: Bozeman, Montana Ceramics, and the Archie Bray Foundation
April 23, 7-9:15pm, Rialto Bozeman
For the second year in a row, Tinworks Art: In Conversation brings together artists, writers, scientists, and creative thinkers from various fields to discuss the topics of our time. From March to July, Tinworks will convene thought leaders from the region and beyond for a series of conversations titled The Earth Beneath our Feet. The conversations have been developed in consideration of Tinworks’ 2025 exhibition season, running June 21 - October 18, which will feature ceramic, clay, and earthen artworks by regional and international, historical and contemporary artists, and a continued activation of Tinworks’ field by ecological artist Agnes Denes. Development and speaker invitation for this second series has been in collaboration with Mary Stein and Mary Murphy.
Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted at the Rialto Theater in downtown Bozeman. Tinworks Art is an artist- and community- centered nonprofit organization and art space that contributes to the cultural and social fabric of greater Bozeman by supporting inclusive and immersive contemporary art experiences for artists and audiences in non-traditional spaces, where art meets the American West.
Host Rick Newby, Poet. Author. Editor.
Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky (with Suzanne Hunger); An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’ Project (with Megan Hiller, Alexandra Swaney, and Elaine Peterson); and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of FriedaFligelman (with Alexandra Swaney); and Roger Dunsmore’s On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966–2018. Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared in national and international journals and in numerous exhibition catalogs. Rick’s most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell – My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959–2016, which received the High Plains Book Award, Art/Photography, 2018. In 2024, Drumlummon Institute published Rick’s selected essays, A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022.
Josh DeWeese, Artist. Director MSU School of Art. Former Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.
Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He is currently Director of Montana State University School of Art and Professor of ceramics. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. DeWeese has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. Together with artist Dean Adams he co-founded the International Wild Clay Research Project, studying the use of indigenous ceramic materials and processes around the world, traveling to China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Chile, Brazil, and Italy.
Event Schedule
7pm - Doors open. Browse books for sale by our speakers courtesy of the Country Bookshelf. Book signing by author Rick Newby.
7:30pm - Tickets will be sold to waiting list participants whom are present at the Rialto from ticket holders who have not arrived and thereby have forfeited their tickets.
7:45pm - Speakers will begin, question and answer period will follow.
9:15pm - Event concludes.
Many people are interested in this event! We ask that you purchase tickets if you are committed to attending. Ticket purchase ahead of time is recommended and we limit sales to two tickets per person. If you are unable to attend your workshop please contact angela.yonke@tinworksart.org within 48 hours of the event to ensure we are able to pass your ticket to someone on the waiting list in a timely manner. Tinworks understands that unforeseen circumstances may arise, but we ask that you contact us as soon as possible if you know you are unable to attend.
Want to gift someone a ticket? You can sponsor another who may otherwise be unable to participate by purchasing a "Gift Ticket".
If registration fills, a "Waiting List" option will become available and you can select this to be added to a que. We will contact these individuals as spots become available. We also recommend those on the waiting list come to the Rialto the night of the event to be sold available tickets the most quickly.
Parking downtown can be tricky, so we recommend arriving with plenty of time and using the parking garage located on Tracy Avenue or coming via public transportation.
Have a question, or would you like to request sponsored (free) tickets for yourself or your students contact angela.yonke@tinworksart.org. Committed attendance requests only please.
For more information
To learn about our exhibition programming and to stay informed about what's going on at Tinworks Art sign up for our newsletter on our website www.tinworksart.org and follow us on social media.
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/tinworksartbozeman)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tinworksart/)
Interested in making a donation? Help support our quality programming for all ages this season by visiting https://www.tinworksart.org/give.