Fall 2025 Workshop | Linda Sikora & Matt Metz

Registration opens Monday August 4th, 2025 at 10 AM.
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We are excited to announce our Workshop Presenting Artists:
Linda Sikora & Matt Metz. 

workhop dates: Saturday September 27 & Sunday September 28, 2025

The 2 day, demo based workshop is free. The $25 fee includes registration, coffee & refreshment during the workshop. Plus, your participation in a community dinner on Saturday evening with the artists at Fox Studio.

All Attendees must register
There will be no refunds

 

workshop schedule:
Friday Saturday Sept. 26th
5-7pm MT (optional, but we would love for you to join us)
Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery reception for the Juried National VIII with jurors Linda & Matt

Saturday September 27th
9am-12pm- artist talks, demos (out at Fox Studio)
coffee, tea and light snacks provided 

12-1pm-LUNCH: TBA (food truck)
***If this does not fit your dietary needs, you are welcome to bring a lunch, and store it in the kitchen fridgerator.***

1pm-4pm-demos (Out at Fox Studio)

4-6pm BREAK (we invite you to visit the Gallery-123 Broadway, Red Lodge)

6pm catered dinner (out at Fox Studio), registration required

Sunday Sept. 27th
9:30-1:30pm -demos (out at Fox Studio)
coffee, tea and light snacks provided 

Addresses:
Fox Studio-463 Two Mile Bridge Rd, Roberts, MT
Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery- 123 S. Broadway, Red Lodge Montana

About our Presenters:

Linda Sikora is second generation Canadian whose paternal grandparents left Eastern Europe, as political tides turned, to work in Western Canadian orchards and coal mines. Sikora’s mother was the oldest of 14 siblings (Scottish/French) in Eastern Canada. Secondary school education was a luxury not afforded her parents, but values of personal agency and industry were abundant.  The furniture her father built for the family household and her mother’s acute aesthetic influenced the pursuit of an art/craft/design education.

Sikora resides with her family near Alfred NY where she has a studio practice and is a Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Academic study in visual art (BA) and a ceramic-based apprenticeship in British Columbia was the foundation of her training that continued at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (BFA) and University of Minnesota–Minneapolis (MFA).

Professional activities are national and international: Artist residencies include: Archie Bray Foundation; Chunkang College of Cultural Industry, Korea; Tainan National College of The Arts, Taiwan; Clay Edge, Australia.

Public Collections include: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Racine Art Museum, WI; Alfred Ceramic Art Museum; LA County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts; Everson Museum, NY; Campos de Gutiérrez Foundation, Medellin, Colombia; Huntington Museum of Art; Fuller Craft Museum; Gardener Museum, Canada; LSU Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; National Museum of Sweden. Sikora was nominated and selected as a United States Artist Fellow in 2020.

Matthew Metz has been a making his living as a potter for 25 years.He resides and works in Alfred Station, New York with his wife, potter, educator, Linda Sikora. Born in Kendallville, Indiana in 1961, he received a B.F.A from Ball State University and his MFA from Edinboro University, PA. From 1989 to 1991 he was a resident at Archie Bray Foundation and was awarded an Individual artist Grant from the NEA. In 1991 Matt and Linda moved to Houston, MN, where they worked for the next 14 years before moving to Alfred.

Matt received two McKnight Artist Fellowships through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1997, 2005. Matthew shows his pottery throughout the U.S. and internationally- including the St. Croix Potter’s Tour, Old Church Pottery Show,  and Pottery on the Hill. He is represented by Schaller Gallery, Trax Gallery and the mobile Artstream Gallery. In 2015 he was a founder of the Flower City Pottery Invitational in Rochester, NY. Matthew’s work is in private and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Erie Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, Alfred Museum of Ceramic Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, and Long Beach Museum of Art.   He has presented professional pottery workshops at universities and craft schools across the U.S and Canada. In 2016 he and Linda were featured in the “Teachers” episode of the PBS series “Craft in America”.

Workshop Content: TBA
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OPI Credits for Educators: Red Lodge Clay Center will offer 10 credit units for full participation (Sunday and Saturday) of this workshop. Please email Rachael- Programs Coordinator to fill out the certification, and be sure to sign in for BOTH days at the workshop.