In Person or Streaming Online!

Connect with this year’s Summer Residents (Part I!) 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:

Amy Sanders was born in Yueyang, Hunan, China and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In 2022, she completed a year as a post- baccalaureate student at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. From 2022-2024, she served as a long-term Artist in Residence at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL. She served as an invited artist at the 2025 winter Pentaculum short term residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. Recently, Amy attended a Resident Artist at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shiga, Japan. Amy has shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her article “Harmonious Pouring Vessels” was included in the September 2025 issue of Ceramics Monthly. Currently, she is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate. Discover More About Amy’s Work Here!

David Vuong is an interdisciplinary artist who creates sculptures incorporating ceramic, glass, wood, and metal. He is fascinated by how memory constructs the human and connects with his experiences of societal displacement. Through an interest in material and form, he explores the language of vessels for the human and how processes of bodily preservation appear in cultural narratives. He graduated from Alfred University with a BFA and completed a post-bacc in ceramics at Temple University. He is a recipient of the 2025 Haystack artist grant initiative and a former resident at Watershed and Wheaton Arts. He is also a multi-recipient artist grant awardee for material and glaze research. David currently resides in Providence, RI, continuing his sculptural practice as a long-term resident at The Steelyard. Discover More About David’s Work Here!

Faye Hadfield (b.1996) is a ceramic artist from the north east of England, whose work explores emotion, while blending Rococo aesthetics with crude handbuilt textures to create material dichotomies between surface and decoration. In Faye’s work memories of the British countryside resurface as motifs through gestures in the foliaged decoration, giving homage to the bucolic landscape of England where she grew up. Faye completed her BFA in Ceramics at Bath Spa University (Bath,UK), and the Kunst University (Linz, Austria), 2018. Faye holds an MFA in ceramics from The University of Iowa (Iowa, USA) 2026. Faye has exhibited her artwork internationally and nationally at: Collect (London), Le Delta (Belgium), Soho Review (London), Ceramic Art Fair (Paris), Culture Object (New York), HAGD Gallery & Galerie Worlfsen (Denmark),Nomad ST Moritz (Switzerland), Side Gallery (Spain), and annually at Paris Art & Design, in Paris and London. Faye has received international and national research grants to expand her research in ceramics and Rococo Ornamentation. Hadfield has been awarded residencies at Ceramica Suro (Guadalajara, Mexico), The Clay Shed (Bristol, UK) and CRICA exchange residency (Nebraska Lincoln, USA). Discover More About Faye’s Work Here!

John Shea (b. 1989) works with clay to examine the way objects form relationships and exist in the world. Incorporating geometric and organic forms, his work highlights the constructed boundaries between individual objects and the ways we differentiate between objects and ourselves, seeking to reveal the hidden structures of our world. Shea holds a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally through prominent galleries, including HostlerBurrows and HB381 in New York and Los Angeles, Officine Saffi in Milan, and Carwan Gallery in Athens. Additionally his work has been featured in art fairs such as Design Miami, TEFAF, Collect, and Frieze New York. His most recent solo exhibition, full volume, opened in January 2025 at the Walton Art Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Shea currently serves as Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Arkansas–Little Rock, where he has taught since 2021. Discover More About John’s Work Here!

Nanxi Jin (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with clay as a site of fragmentation and reconstruction. Born in Jingdezhen, China, the historical center of porcelain production, and now based in Chicago. Her practice examines how ceramic materials carry cultural memory across geographies. Her work begins with broken forms: shards, discarded vessels, and glaze residues. Rather than restoring these elements, she reassembles them into structures that hover between function and collapse. Through processes such as slip casting, handbuilding, and modular construction, she destabilizes traditional ceramic hierarchies of refinement and perfection, foregrounding the overlooked waste, excess, and residue. Nanxi received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including NYCxDesign (New York), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), SOIL (Seattle), Ceramic Art Avenue Gallery (Jingdezhen), and Paris Design Week (Paris). She has been awarded residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Ox-Bow School of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and Anderson Ranch. Her work is included in the Guangdong Shiwan Ceramic Museum’s collection in China. Discover More About Nanxi’s Work Here!

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