In Person or Streaming Online!

Connect with this year’s Summer Residents (Part II!) through a fun and engaging presentation in the form of a lightning round panel discussion moderated by Bray staff. View each of our incoming summer residents artworks via slides while getting to know more about each of them as artists and individuals. Discover what their plans are for their time with us and hear what their thinking and working on in their studios!

Our Artist Amplified lecture and demonstration series allows artists and art enthusiasts to share their history, process, and conceptual motivations with the public through various presentation formats. We can’t wait to discover what our summer residents have to share!

In Person:
       Frances Senska Center for Education and Engagement
       2915 Country Club Ave
       Helena, MT 59602

JOIN VIRTUALLY! (Link goes live at the time of the event)

About the Presenters:

Chelsea McMaster is a ceramic artist who primarily works with coil-building, sculptural techniques, and traditional finishes. Her work transcribes unwritten and forgotten narratives that bridge history, craft, and storytelling through the ceramic medium. She completed her BA in Art at Millersville University (PA) and a MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University (NY). In 2023, she was awarded the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship and the American Ceramic Circle Research grant. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a National Geographic Explorer whose focus is on the preservation, education, and expansion of Afro-Caribbean pottery practices. Her research-based practice centers matriarchal craft legacies and preserving oral culture and traditions through object-making. Discover More About Chelsea’s Work Here!

Abbey Peters is currently based in Denver, CO and serves as the Phipps Visiting Professor of Ceramics at the University of Denver. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Iowa and a BFA from the University of Arkansas. Her work has been exhibited in over forty group exhibitions across the US and Canada, in addition to recent solo shows at Berea College, and UIHC Project Art. Peters has received international research grants supporting projects on reproductive care, seed preservation, and beekeeping in London, UK. She has held technician and teaching roles at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago, IL) and Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA). Peters has been awarded residencies at laRex l’Atelier (St. Raphael, France), the inaugural CIRCA Exchange (Boulder, CO), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT). Discover More About Abbey’s Work Here!

Alexandra Barao is a potter and educator based in Western North Carolina. She was born and raised in Virginia and received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. She then spent a decade in the San Fransisco Bay Area learning, teaching, and building community through clay. Since returning to the Southeast in 2022, she has been exploring new connections to this craft in a region where its history is deep and rich. She has been an artist in residence at Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia and Township 10 in Marshall, North Carolina, and has taught workshops on atmospheric firing at The Oki Doki Studio and the Clay Studio of Missoula. Discover More About Alexandra’s Work Here!

Alma Berrow (b. 1992, Dorset, UK) is a British ceramic artist creating intricate trompe l’oeil sculptures that reimagine the still life through a contemporary lens. Her work playfully occupies the space between adult and child, humour and unease, often depicting food, tablescapes and domestic scenes that feel both familiar and subtly disquieting. Berrow began working with ceramics during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Dorset, developing a self taught practice rooted in slow, highly detailed making. Her work has been presented in a number of solo and group exhibitions, including three solo exhibitions with Lamb Gallery in London, as well as presentations with Sotheby’s and Timothy Taylor. She recently presented her first US solo exhibition, What Slips Beneath the Sugar, with Megan Mulrooney in Los Angeles, and has undertaken an international residency in Guadalajara with Cerámica Suro. Her practice is increasingly expanding into larger, installation-based works that explore themes of community, ritual and shared experience. Discover More About Alma’s Work Here!

Corwyn Lund is Toronto-based visual artist. He received his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in 2022, after studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. Lund has participated in ceramic residencies around the world, including in Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, and China. In April 2024 his ceramic work was featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly magazine, which contained an article on his practice. In 2025, he received the runner-up prize for the Winifred Shantz Award for Canadian ceramics. Corwyn’s ceramic work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Headstone Gallery in New York state, and Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto, and is held in the permanent collections of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Works in other media are held in several prominent Canadian corporate and private collections. Discover More About Corwyn’s Work Here!

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