Get to know The Bray teachers
Jon Bashioum
Teacher Bio
Jon Bashioum is a wood fire potter, who was born in North Carolina and moved away shortly after. Having never seen the place where he was born, Jon took to rambling around the country and has adopted Montana as his home. After earning his bachelor’s degree in music from Bethany College in West Virginia, and narrowly missing an art degree due to a clerical error, Jon pursued a variety of global experiences in ceramics. He received his MFA from Montana State University, and is now the Production Manager for the Archie Bray Clay Business. His explorations of utilitarian wares represent a curiosity in the regional lifestyles that can only exist from long-term inhabitation, but are best appreciated by the traveler. With his eyes ever on the road, Jon is currently renovating a charter bus with his partner, Danielle O’Malley, and turning it into the mobile gallery: The Beyond Gallery.
Uriel Caspi
Teacher Bio
Born in Haifa, Israel (1994), Uriel received his MFA in ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, USA. In 2018, he graduated magna cum laude from the ceramics department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Ceramics, MI. His works and installations have been showcased nationally and abroad. In 2019, he was awarded an emerging artist prize of the Hecht Museum Foundation, and is current a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Art.
Perry Haas
Teacher Bio
Perry Haas has been working with clay since 2003. He studied at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, Illinois and Utah State University where he received his BFA. Perry has been a resident artist in Demark at Guldagergaard , The Archie Bray Foundation, Clay Studio of Missoula and the Red Lodge Clay Center. Haas’s work continues to evolve and has been seen in numerous collections. He’s inspired by the mountains and streams of the landscape that surrounds him in Montana. Currently Perry is the Facilities and Studio Manager at The Archie Bray Foundation. He lives and works out of his home studio in Clancy, Montana.
Sydnie Jimenez
Teacher Bio
Sydnie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her childhood in north Georgia from which she draws much inspiration. Much of her work centers around the representation of black/ brown youth and self-expression as a form of protest and self-care to protect against a Eurocentric society founded on white supremacy and colonization and to cultivate joy despite this. She has a BFA (2020) from SAIC and was awarded the Windgate Fellowship (2020). She is currently a long term Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.
Stephanie Seguin
Teacher Bio
Artist and Educator, Stephanie Seguin received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University, and BFA from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Born and raised in the Minneapolis area, Stephanie used her ambitions in clay to work and study at various production and educational studios across the United States and abroad. Stephanie was a Resident Artist and Education Coordinator at Carbondale Clay Center (CO) and has taught community and academic classes for Pennsylvania State University, Colorado Mountain College, and Western New Mexico University, among others. Stephanie currently works from her home studio in Helena, MT and is the Education Manager of The Archie Bray Foundation.
Bill Wilkey
Teacher Bio
Bill Wilkey is a studio artist living in Helena, Montana. He received his MFA from the University of Missouri, and BFA from East Tennessee State University. Bill came to the Archie Bray Foundation as a long term resident artist in 2014 and was awarded the Lincoln and Lillstreet Art Center Fellowships, then became an artist in residence and visiting faculty at Indiana University Southeast 2016-2017. Bill exhibits his work widely and teaches workshops nationally. He has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist, as well as a cover article for Pottery Making Illustrated. Most recently, he rebuilt the soda kiln and built a new cross draft soda kiln for The Bray.
Maura Wright
Teacher Bio
Maura Wright's sculptural, terracotta vessels are often draped with laurels, florets, and vignettes. Braids, ropes, and fruit clusters are intertwined with floral and geometric patterns. The forms are expressively bulged and distorted. She weds high art to low until we can’t tell the difference, until we must acknowledge the staginess of all art, of all life. Based in Helena, Montana, Maura Wright is originally from Columbia, Missouri. She received a MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018 and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. Residencies include: the International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark; the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary; Red Star Studios in Kansas City, MO; The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT; and Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT. She is currently the Gallery Program Manager at the Archie Bray Foundation.
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