About this experience
We are excited to announce our Workshop Presenting Artists, Lauren Mabry & Kyle Johns.
Registration opens Monday February 24, 2025 at 10 AM.
workhop dates: Saturday April 26 & Sunday April 27, 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.
Attendees must register
There will be no refunds
Lauren & Kyle's work will be available for sale as our March-April Featured artists.
Registration opens Monday February 24, 2025 at 10 AM.
workhop dates: Saturday April 26 & Sunday April 27, 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.
Attendees must register
There will be no refunds
Lauren & Kyle's work will be available for sale as our March-April Featured artists.
workshop schedule:
Friday April 25th
5-7pm MT (optional, but we would love for you to join us)
Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery reception with Lauren and Kyle
Saturday April 26th
9am-12pm- artist talks, demos (out at Fox Studio)
coffee, tea and light snacks provided
12-1pm-LUNCH (Food Truck out at the Fox studio)
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 April 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:
Lauren Mabry:
“Lauren Mabry’s works capture transformative material forces beyond our control. Her ceramic objects appear fixed in medias res, clarifying materials and objects in transition. The least representational of the works on exhibit in the ICA, Mabry’s works provide pathways for us to imagine the wildness of evolutions outside our ken. Her ceramic forms engage with Modernist histories of abstraction – she notes Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hoffman as inspirations – as well as transforming the field of ceramics through their painterly focus.
A master of glaze techniques, Mabry’s works are constructed with these fluid materials in mind. Each form articulates pathways for color that reinforce clay’s engagement with the earth and its gravitational pull. In Glazescape (Green Shade No.2) (2021), a fluid chromium green surface descends onto two brown supportive posts, suggestive of trunks that aim to hold up a canopy that is melting before our eyes. And melt it does; in Mabry’s Glazescape series, the glazes drip and pool, frozen in a moment of transformation to reveal an intermixing of chemical color that calls to mind a candy factory in high production: bright oranges, pinks, yellows, and chartreuses. A few works, such as Glazescape (Pink No. 4) (2022), gape like open mouths, uncanny glaze forms like garish teeth drip within oval windows. These playful inventions contribute to a viewing experience that is one of pleasurable uncertainty. In Glazescape (Molten Cloud) (2022) a foamed white glaze form rests like fallen stratocumulus clouds at the base of the work. This notation of atmospheric phenomena, at once ethereal referent and marker of our environmentally strained times, is here grounded and abstracted by the mineral world: clay, glaze, heat, and gravity.” - Julie Poitras, Curator, ICA @ MECA&D
Kyle Johns:
"Using the traditionally rigid process of mold making that is at the core of industrial production; I deconstruct and reassemble plaster mold positives to create a multitude of unique forms. The work is created organically, responding to the outcomes and limitations of the process and material. Through play, variation and modification, I look to change simple variables to create new methods and possibilities. I often reference domestic forms that are familiar, as a means to draw a broader connection to my work. These objects exist in the grey area between vessel and sculpture, and question the boundaries of design. Through my work I hope to explore the various degrees of function, from the practical to the sculptural, while generating new ideas for uses, forms, and processes."- Johns
Workshop Content:
****COMING SOON*****
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.
Your Host
It is our mission to support artists, the creative process and to provide a place for professionally minded ceramic artists to create new work. Red Lodge Clay Center hosts Visiting Artist workshops, lectures, demonstrations, gallery exhibitions, and educational programming to share with our resident artists and the general public the importance of art in our everyday lives. Red Lodge Clay Center is fully committed to being actively anti-racist, and to work for lasting and systemic changes in the field of ceramics and in our community.