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Same Old Story
Mar
24
to Apr 14

Same Old Story

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The Body Narrative Collective began at Red Lodge Clay Center where they convened for a residency in 2019. Since that time, Tammy Marinuzzi, Pavel Amromin, Magda Gluszek, Meghan Sullivan, and Jill Foote-Hutton have remained in contact, supporting each other through the pandemic in conversation and creativity. Each maker deals with the figure in some capacity and the work is often driven by story.

Uncertainty: The Only Guarantee, is the first group exhibition of the collective. The concept of the exhibition is rooted in the fable of Chicken Little who proclaimed, “The Sky is Falling.” Since 2020 it has certainly felt that way and in this exhibition the artists will explore how during the darkest times, there is always still a little hope. Informed not only by the western version of Chicken Little, but also by iterations of the story that appear around the globe.

Sometimes the creatures fulfill their proclamation, they speak the worst scenario into being. In other versions, the intelligent and calmer voices bring everyone to a place of calm and peace.

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SETHE: Rivers & Refuge
Mar
15
to Mar 18

SETHE: Rivers & Refuge

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NCECA 2023, Cincinatti, OH: Currents

Curator/Organizer: Lydia Thompson and Chotsani E. Dean

Artists -Monica Bock, Patsy Cox, Deborah Dancy, Chotsani Elaine Dean, Jill Foote-Hutton, Joann Quiñones, Janathel Shaw, Lydia Thompson

Exhibition Dates: 

Wednesday, March 15th, 9 - 5 pm

Thursday, March 16th, 9 - 5 pm,

Friday, March 17th, 9 - 4 pm

Each artist homogenizes the commonalities in Morrison’s novel Beloved, sometimes based on reality translated into fiction. Just as Morrison captures the fragility and strength of her characters, the artists translate these characteristics into their clay forms, where material leaps into imagination and demonstrates the emotional and psychological status of the maker and user. These artists use ceramic material to create a dialogue between survival, fragility, customs, and traditions.

This exhibition proposal is inspired by the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison and serves as the backdrop and theme for the exhibition. In summary, Morrison’s novel is based on the true story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, who in 1856 escaped from a Kentucky plantation with her husband, Robert, and their children. They sought refuge in Ohio, but their owner and law officers soon caught up with the family. Before their recapture, Margaret killed her young daughter to prevent her return to slavery. In the novel Beloved, Sethe as the main character is also a passionately devoted mother, who flees with her children from an abusive owner known as “schoolteacher.” She too tries to kill her children to keep them from slavery. (Lowne, Cathy. "Beloved". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Jul. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Beloved-novel-by-Morrison. Accessed 22 June 2022.) In Beloved, the Ohio River is a place where characters such as Beloved, Denver, and Sethe are reborn and given a new life, ultimately suggesting that the Ohio River serves as the bridge between worlds and the line separating them is as fluid as the water itself. Several themes run through the novel and in the case of water that leads to freedom and provides opportunities full of metaphors and symbols. (Mendelsohn, Taylor. “Beloved by Toni Morrison”. Analysis)

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Small Changes
Feb
6
to Feb 25

Small Changes

Exhibition Posted Online: Monday, February 6, 2023 at 10 am MT

In 2014, Red Lodge Clay Center established the DO GOOD-MJ Wood Memorial Short-Term Residency as an underwritten residency intended to support ceramic artists who wished to develop a body of work with a socially-conscious spirit and a strong sense of community engagement. Since then, RLCC has hosted six Do Good residents, all who work towards making positive social change. This exhibition, Small Changes, recognizes the small impact that attempting to do good in the world creates. Over time, small changes can have a powerful collective impact.

As MJ Do Good Residents at RLCC, each artist worked on a specific project. This exhibition will celebrate these artist as makers, and will feature their current utilitarian, sculptural, and small installation work. Participating artists include  Chotsani Dean, Jeni Hansen Gard, Amanda Leigh Evans, Jill Foote Hutton, Tammy Marinuzzi, CC Newton, and Casey Whittier.

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Nov
5
11:00 AM11:00

Guardian Monster Workshops at Welcome House

On the first and third Saturdays of the month, I visit Welcome House, an addiction recovery program, and work with the residents. In a Guardian Monster workshop, we examine the idea of traditional totems: wishbones, Dumbo's feather, worry stones, a rabbit's foot, etc. I ask participants to think about the physical characteristics of monsters. Then we talk about what job those characteristics help the monster perform. A claw or a horn may be described as a tool of destruction in some way. Next, we shift our perspective to the monster's mindset, imagining if the monster, a living thing, had the same needs as we do. In that frame of mind, the horn and the claw become tools to secure sustenance or to defend a home. At this point I put the question to them, "If you were going to conjure a Guardian Monster, one who protects and serves you, one who reminds you to be your best self when things are hard, exactly what would that look like? We are going to spend a few moments journaling or contemplating what job your Guardian Monster will perform for you." Next, "Now that you have an intention, what physical characteristics will your monster need to have in order to carry out the job?" Addiction recovery and Guardian-Monster-making are both about pulling "stuff" out of shame-filled shadows into the light of day.

If you are interested in hosting a Guardian Monster workshop at your organization, contact Jill Foote-Hutton: jill@whistlepigtales.com

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Oct
21
6:00 PM18:00

Art Educator Workshop (Virtual) at Northern Clay Center

FREE FOR EDUCATORS!

Join Jill Foote-Hutton via Zoom for a Guardian Monsters workshop! This therapeutic experience enables individuals to embrace aspects of both myth and fable within a physical object. Creating a Guardian Monster is an opportunity to release personal experiences and emotions by transforming them into a vessel of safety and security. Gain the tools to lead your students through this exercise—the written lesson with visuals will be available on NCC’s website. This is the kind of thoughtful and soothing creative engagement we need right now.

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Oct
18
to Nov 18

Featured Artist: Northern Clay Center

Late Autumn Featured Artists

Jill Foote-Hutton, Matthew Krousey, Kirk Lyttle

October 12 - November 7

Fall is the perfect season to appreciate the beauty of our natural world. Foote-Hutton utilizes imagery of monsters as a vehicle to explore concepts of ritual and religion. Krousey’s pottery presents an earnest perspective of Minnesota’s natural environment. Lyttle’s work focuses on the creatures that inhabit our world; his wares offer rich surfaces adorned with joyful and cheeky illustrations. Join us in celebrating these imaginative artists’ mastery of material!

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Civilized Wildlings at North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN
Sep
30
to Oct 28

Civilized Wildlings at North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN

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This fall, North Hennepin Community College has the pleasure of hosting Jill Foote-Hutton’s art in the brand new exhibit, Civilized Wildlings. The exhibition will consist of a collection of vessels informed by art nouveau pottery made in Bohemia at the turn of the century by Eduard Stellmacher, whose works were a celebration of the natural world. His forms were harmonious curves crawling with creatures from the forest with thick details and opulent glazes.

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CRAFT ALLIANCE 16th Biennial Teapot Exhibition
Jan
10
to Feb 23

CRAFT ALLIANCE 16th Biennial Teapot Exhibition

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16th Biennial Teapot Exhibition “Tea and Cookies”

For this biennial teapot exhibition we are interested in the idea pairing teapots with cookie jars. This pairing becomes an investigation around the idea of the container, both in construction and what it means to us culturally.  In Britain they have tea and biscuits, but here in America, we talk about the union of a warm beverage with a delicious cookie.  We could say that this is essentially the same idea, but with different socially economic status attached to it. Actually the cookie jar is an iteration of the biscuit barrel, a British container of biscuits. As this jar form was introduced to the States and Canada, it took on the name, “Cookie Jar”.

Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

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Guardian Monsters at NCC
Nov
14
6:00 PM18:00

Guardian Monsters at NCC

Northern Clay Center has invited Whistlepig Studio to be part of their ART@HAND programming.

Come explore your personal mythology in a Guardian Monster workshop. Under the guidance of Whistlepig Studios, participants will reflect on their own beliefs about monstrous attributes and what elements of a scary creature could be heartening as a protection characteristic. This workshop includes conversation and reflection time, as well at time to create!

This program is FREE and open to the general public!

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Horror Vacui @ Northern Clay Center
Sep
20
to Nov 3

Horror Vacui @ Northern Clay Center

Horror Vacui

Stoked to have had the opportunity to curate at Northern Clay Center!

Mario Praz, an Italian-born critic, used a Latin phrase, horror vacui, to confront the Victorian fetish of visual clutter. Since that time, more than 100 years have passed with Minimalism as sentry, guarding the margins of good taste in design. High culture has been mostly synonymous with restraint. However, the rabble has been known to bubble up from time to time: consider the Ashcan school of painting, the Maximalism movement of the '70s, the more recent visual cacophonies of Sarah Sze, and the 2015 curatorial concept, coined by Kaloust Guedel, Excessivism.

As a species, we seem to always bounce between the margins of excess and restraint in pursuit of balance. The same movement is present in our politics and our psychology. These margins of extremes are seemingly always reflected in our art, regardless of which side of the abyss we find ourselves. Horror Vacui: Across the Margins, curated by Jill Foote-Hutton, is a celebration of visual excess, as much as it is also an examination of it and a reflection of our world.

Every artist in the exhibition embraces visual texture, high contrast, and chromatic saturation to express layers of content. Any sampling of their surface work rewards the viewer with a tome of formal or narrative dialogue. The physical space will be divided into two spaces that will work in concert. An internal chamber, quiet with negative space, will provide mental and physical room for reflection. This “room” will be bounded by a narrow and visually dense external hallway, with walls bearing patterns designed by each maker. The works are paired with the intention of forcing a deliciously crowded conversation.

Horror Vacui: Across the Margins is a collaboration between the artists, the curator, and NCC’s exhibitions team. Each maker was invited to explore a category they were already subject to and encouraged to go further. They have also put their trust in having their work on display in a way that will potentially alter the intended perception, if only slightly. After all, every visual cue we take in is informed by the ground on which it stands.



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50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics
Mar
16
to Apr 13

50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics

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Alex Kraft and Anthony Merino are curating "50 Women - A Celebration of Women's Contribution to Ceramics" at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, 2016.

Details about the opening reception are still forthcoming, but you can keep up with developments on Facebook

And you can listen to Alex and Tony talk with Ben Carter about the exhibit on his podcast Tales of a Red Clay Rambler

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Dec
1
to Mar 31

Role Models

Another exhibition in conjunction with the 50th NCECA Conference, although independently organize. Role Models is the curatorial vision of Morean Arts Center Assistant Curator, Melissa Yungbluth.

The exhibition is based on the idea of mentorship. 20 artists currently working in Florida have been asked them to name someone who has been their mentor and someone that they have mentored.  Tammy Marinuzzi invited me as a mentor, and while I'm not sure I've earned that moniker, it's an honor to be in the exhibition.

It will be on display this December at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida and then will travel to Belger Arts Center in Kansas City, Missouri in March 2016 for the 50th NCECA Conference.

As dates near, links and other information will be available.

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Scratching the Surface
Oct
2
to Oct 30

Scratching the Surface

 Opening Reception October 2, 2015, 5-7 PM Exhibition 

Exhibition Posted Online: October 5, 2015, by 10 AM Mountain Time

In 2012 Jason Bige Burnett organized the first Arrowmont Surface Forum, inviting professional ceramic artists together for an intense week of exchange, collaboration, and camaraderie. A few years later, and folks clamor for an invitation. "Scratching the Surface" is an exhibition of work from all the makers who have been in attendance.

We invited them to share works rooted in and influenced by their time at the forum, however loosely. Experiences are springboards, and the Forum is just that for many participants. One technique shared is translated through another lens and applied in a completely new way. A single conversation unlocks a door one just could not find the key to alone. 

Red Lodge Clay Center and Arrowmont, along with many other ceramic centers across the globe provide time and room for incubation. This month we are happy to partner with Jason to showcase the fruits from his labor of love. 

Be sure to check out the amazing lineup of artists and read their statements as we have asked them to address the importance of creative sanctuary, the hierarchies of surface and form, among other topics.

For more information:
406-446-3993

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40@100 A DADAH REUNION
Sep
25
to Oct 24

40@100 A DADAH REUNION

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2015 marks the centennial of Webster University (formerly Webster College). Art was one of the original four areas of study offered at the Loretto College for Women in 1915.  The original college had a School of Arts, also a Conservatory of Music, Departments of Expression, and Home Economics, a new major in art was introduced in 1946.  In 1975, Webster University (then Webster College) increased the professional level of their visual arts degree options by establishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree.

 

An invitational alumni exhibition titled 40@100 is being organized as part of the commemoration of these significant institutional milestones. The exhibition will take place September 25 - October 24, 2015.  The friday evening opening corresponds with the university’s annual homecoming weekend.  In addition to the exhibition itself, there will be a panel discussion earlier in the day.

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Montana Clay Group Exhibition
Sep
11
to Dec 12

Montana Clay Group Exhibition

A celebration of an incredible, talent filled, state – wide exhibition in partnership with Montana Clay! The Paris Gibson Museum welcomes all to attend the opening artists’ reception on Friday, September 11th 2015 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM and to participate in the Museum’s annual fall festival, Arts on Fire, Sept 11th & 12th as part of 2015 Montana Clay Weekend in Great Falls.

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Guardian Monsters @ Honey's
Aug
7
to Aug 28

Guardian Monsters @ Honey's

Opening on Friday, August 5, 2015 from 5-7PM

Whistlepig Studio is proud to be invited to share new work with the community of Red Lodge in a solo exhibition of new Monster Guardians at Honey's this month. The objects will be presented along with limited edition prints of the Guardian Monsters in contextual settings. See a monster on the foothills of the Bighorns lapping at the remains of an elk bison or nestled in the glowing moss of a stump along the Lake Fork Trail just outside of town. Myth and Fable are familiar in the Absarokee wilderness, from stories of the Little People from the Crow Nation to Skin Walkers to Windagos. We can create our own mythology, imbuing the characters with the stories we need to hear. Come on over and check out the most recent additions to local mountain lore.

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2015 Jentel Critic at the Bray
Apr
30
to Jun 24

2015 Jentel Critic at the Bray

Jentel Critic at the Bray 

A residency for writers interested in the ceramic arts

Two western arts organizations have teamed up to advance critical and creative writing and thinking in the field of ceramic art. The Archie Bray Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest residency programs is teaming up with one of the country’s newest, the Jentel Foundation of Banner, Wyoming. The collaboration is aimed at developing opportunities for more informed and thoughtful critical writing about the ceramic arts on a national and international level, and further enriching the creative environment of both residency programs.

Starting in early May of each year, the Jentel Critic at the Bray will spend up to two weeks at the Bray, meeting and learning about the Bray’s Taunt, Lilian, Lincoln, Matsutani, and MJD Fellows and their artwork, as well as experiencing firsthand the creative environment that helps nurture their work. 

Mid-May through mid-June will be spent at the Jentel Artist Residency Program, where writers can take advantage of the quiet environment to focus on developing the material gathered to produce five 500-word essays about the Bray fellowship artists and their work.

The Bray’s Fellowships are awarded annually to ceramic artists who demonstrate exceptional merit and promise. The beneficiaries of the fellowships are expected to embrace the Bray experience of community and exchange, and focus their attention on producing and exhibiting a significant body of work during their one-year residency.

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Folktales & Legends: An Exhibition Without Borders
Apr
19
to Jul 26

Folktales & Legends: An Exhibition Without Borders

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FOLKTALES & LEGENDS
An Exhibition Without Borders

On view: April 19–July 26, 2015

EXHIBITION CONCEPT
Folktales and legends blur fact and fiction; seeded in the truth, they grow into stories both fantastical and far-fetched. Whether written, spoken, or communicated visually, folktales represent cultures throughout the world. FOLKTALES & LEGENDS will explore the capacity of visual art to convey such epic narratives.

Artists Dennis McNett (TX) and Joseph Velasquez (WI) use printmaking to tell stories through images. This summer, they will create larger-than-life Connecting Communities projects based on an original folktale inspired by Sheboygan culture and Wisconsin folklore.

This exhibition asks artists to submit an original, two- or three-dimensional work inspired by a folktale or legend. The source narrative may be traditional or of your own creation. 

 

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Potsketch 2015 Clay Studio of Missoula
Apr
18
6:00 PM18:00

Potsketch 2015 Clay Studio of Missoula

POTSKETCH 2015 EVENT & AUCTION
Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6-10pm

University Center North Ballroom, University of Montana
Dress theme: Gold Luster

The evening includes food, beverages, great company, live music by the The Captain Wilson Conspiracy(formerly Discount Quartet) and an opportunity to make Starting Bids on POTSKETCHES and one-of-a-kind ceramic works auctioned off by Mayor John Engen

It is best to order tickets in advance at the Clay Studio of Missoula, by phone (406.543.0509) or in person (10am-5pm weekday in our office). You can also purchase tickets ONLINE via paypal by scrolling below.

If the event is not sold out prior, you may purchase tickets the night of the event

Tickets prices purchased by April 3: 
Members: $40/person 
Non-members: $45/person

Ticket prices purchased April 4-April 18: $50/person

Tables of ten for $400 are available on request.

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Monsters of Spring
Apr
10
8:00 AM08:00

Monsters of Spring

Join Whistlepig Studio Founder Jill Foote-Hutton and Honey for the Heart's Robert M Lockheed from Athens, OH at Red Lodge's own Honey's on April 10th. We will be there from 8AM, and everyone is welcome to drop in and create their own monster of spring mask. That's right, ANYONE is welcome to come create with us!!

At 5PM Honey's will host a reception for art made by the Beartooth Children's Center and all proceeds from the art sales will go directly to support their programming.

At 6PM anyone who has made a mask is welcome to join us in a celebratory sidewalk turn about town to welcome Spring to town. Let's clear out the shadows of winter together!
 

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Feb
5
to Mar 8

Communal Narratives-Family Heritage: The Tribe

Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College

3535 N Ellison (Wiseman Blvd @ Highway 151), San Antonio, Texas 

Paul Northway, Curator
February 5 – March 8
Viewing hours: Mon – Sat, 7 am – 9 pm 
CHAIRS RECEPTION: February 5th 11:00am-1:00pm
PALMETTO LOBBY GALLERY
This installation features artist Jill Foote-Hutton. It is an exploration of the symbolism, characteristics, and histories of family portraits through interactive sculptures, and narrative vessels.

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