MISSOULA –

Three resident artists from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena – Nathan Craven, Steven Roberts and Kelly Garret Rathbone – will demonstrate their skills in ceramic art during Archie Bray Day on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at The University of Montana.

Events will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Artist demonstrations will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. in the Ceramics Studio of UM’s Art Annex, located south of the Adams Center. Slide lectures of the artists’ work will be shown from 5 to 6 p.m.

Craven, from Ogden, Utah, earned a bachelor’s in fine arts in ceramics from Weber State University in 2005 and a master’s of fine arts in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. He is the first recipient of the Archie Bray Foundation MJD Fellowship for 2008-09.

Roberts was born in Colby, Kan., and grew up in Helena. He studied painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute and in the Program in Artisanry at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute, Bowling Green State University, the University of Alaska at Anchorage and the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Rathbone was born in Singapore to American parents. She grew up living all over the world and now calls Texas home. She has studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and The Florence Academy of Art in Italy. She was the 2008 Howard Kottler Scholarship recipient for winter residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine and is the 2009-10 Bray Matsutani Fellow.

More about the artists and their work is on the Archie Bray Foundation Web site at http://archiebray.org (click on “Artist Residencies” and then “Long-term Residents”).
 
Information about the UM School of Art’s Ceramic Program is online at http://www.umt.edu/art/programs/ceramics.

For more information, call UM Professor Beth Lo at 406-243-6476.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Photos of selected works by the artists are available by calling UM Professor Beth Lo at 406-243-6476.

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