The Fellowship Artists Exhibition features work by 10 LongTerm Fellowship recipients displayed in the North Gallery.
Fellowship awards provide $7,500 to long-term residents and $1,500 to summer residents. Additional support from the Windgate Foundation covers The Bray’s studio costs for each artist.
Fellowship support is made possible by: AMACO
Anonymous Donors
The Bray Board
The Estate of Christian Frazza
Paulette Etchart and Jon Satre
Wanda and John Hicks
The Joan Lincoln Endowment
Susan J. and Henry K. Ricklefs
Louise and David Rosenfield
Evelyn Sage
Speyer Family Foundation
Quigley-Hiltner Family
For sales inquiries please contact 406.443.3502 ext. 117 exhibitions@archiebray.org
Jake Brodsky; Helena, MT
Marian Draper; Rome, NY
Dante Gambardella; Bozeman, MT
Lexus Giles; Jackson, MS
Tommy Lomeli; Lodi, CA
Carey Nathanson; Wilmington, NC
Samuel Sarmiento; Maracaibo, Venezuela
Jason Lee Starin; Grand Rapids, MI
Kim Tucker; Los Angeles, CA
Eliza Weber; Great Falls, MT
Jake Brodsky
2025 Lincoln Fellow Helena, Montana
Jake Brodsky is a potter living in the mountains outside of Helena, Montana with his family. He was born and raised in Helena, and much of the ideas behind his work are influenced by the landscapes of Montana and from growing up in a community that has long supported artistpotters. After pursuing opportunities around the country for the last decade, he moved back to Helena in 2023 to settle down and build a sustainable studio practice.
Jake Brodsky’s formative education in ceramics came through working at craft schools, community studios, and for other artists, and he received his MFA in Ceramic Art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has completed artist residencies at Red Lodge Clay Center, Pottery Northwest, and Studio 740, and is excited to begin a long-term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in 2025.
Jake Brodsky
Pink Dessert Bowls, 2025
stoneware, slip
$50 ea.
Jake Brodsky
Polka Dot Mug 1, 2025 stoneware, slip, glaze
$65
Jake Brodsky
Polka Dot Mug 2, 2025 stoneware, slip, glaze
$65
Jake Brodsky
Pitcher, 2025
stoneware, slip, glaze
$150
Jake Brodsky Pink Polka Dot Platter, 2025 stoneware, slip, glaze $250
Jake Brodsky
Polka Dot Teapot, 2025
stoneware, slip, glaze
$150
Jake Brodsky
Polka Dot Cups, 2025 stoneware, slip, glaze $55 ea.
Marian Draper
2025 Bray Board Fellow Rome, New York
Marian Draper creates elegantly crafted, utilitarian vessels adorned with lush, floral motifs. Drawing inspiration from rich botanicals and historical textiles and wallpapers, Draper’s work merges a deep admiration for craft and form with a passion for colorful, ornate surfaces. Using underglaze, newsprint, and slip, Draper applies these motifs to generous, wheel-thrown forms. Carved linear lines enhance the vessels, complementing the delicate outlines of the floral designs.
Marian Draper is a ceramic artist whose work is deeply inspired by verdant botanicals and historical patterns. Born and raised in Rome, New York, Draper earned her Bachelor’s in Studio Arts, with a concentration in ceramics, from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY, in 2022. During her time at RIT, she focused primarily on creating large-scale vessels, with an emphasis on form and process. After graduation, Draper relocated to Asheville, NC, to complete a long term residency at Odyssey ClayWorks. Draper is a recipient of the 2024 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award. Her work reflects her passion for both form and process, infused with a love for rich flora and vibrant surfaces.
Marian Draper
Yellow Montana Meadow Basket, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$200
8.5” x 8.5” x 4”
Marian Draper
Green Montana Meadow Basket, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$225
11.75” x 5” x 5”
Marian Draper White Montana Meadow Basket, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5 oxidation
$225 5” x 7” x 2.5”
Large Green Trailing Vines Vase, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$1,300
23” x 12” x 12”
Marian Draper
Orange Montana Meadow Vase, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$120
5” x 7” x 2.5”
Marian Draper Yellow Montana Meadow Vase, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$120
5” x 6.5” x 3”
Marian Draper Montana Meadow Vase, 2025
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, fired to cone 5
oxidation
$275
12” x 5” x 5”
Dante Gambardella
2025 Etchart-Satre Fellow Bozeman, Montana
Dante Gambardella has long been interested in working with and teaching about the use of local materials in contemporary ceramics. Following in the path of Frances Senska and former teacher Josh DeWeese, he seeks to incorporate locally sourced clay into functional pottery. The mindful selection of materials that compose his functional pieces is tied directly to the precious resources they carry. Dante’s love of local material was further deepened by a residency in Mashiko, Japan, where clay was on every hillside, making it easy to imagine a time when local materials were used out of necessity. Dante believes that utilizing local resources is a key step to reducing one’s ecological footprint, and it has become a large part of his ceramic practice.
During Dante’s travels to South Korea, he learned the unique skill of ceramic furniture making from artist Hun Chung Lee, allowing him to increase the scale of his work and bring paintings to the walls of his pieces. The paintings on his work directly correlate to observed compositions from his small organic farm, emphasizing the importance of clean resources and respect for land and climate. He is dedicated to making pieces that can brave the elements of Montana winters, and looks forward to seeing them happily obscured by snow.
Dante Gambardella
The Happy Place, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$1,750
20” x 20” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
The Buttery Light Falls, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$1,750
20” x 20” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
Somewhere Up There, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$1,750
20” x 20” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
The Garden, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$825
12” x 12” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
Tree with the Magical Fruit, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$825
12” x 12” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
The Source of Growing, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$825
12” x 12” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
Sunset Meltdown, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$825
12” x 12” x 1”
Dante Gambardella
The Rabbit, 2025 stoneware and glaze
$825
12” x 12” x 1”
Lexus Giles
2025 Simone Leigh Fellow Jackson, Mississippi
Lexus Giles’ work reflects her identity as a Black woman raised in the South, engaging deeply with the Black Diaspora. As a multimedia artist specializing in ceramics, she explores how history manifests in our present lives. Lexus addresses themes of structure, erasure, and the systems affecting her community while celebrating Blackness. She sees herself as a record-keeper, using materials like clay, wood, and found objects in connection to the land and its people that occupy the land. Her artistic process involves hand-building and mold-pressing techniques, emphasizing the human touch and the multifunctionality of objects. Through carving and mark-making, she evokes the complexities of Black identity, the legacies of Atlantic trans/ slavery, and African origins, creating a dialogue between past, present and future.
Lexus Giles received her BFA from Mississippi State University in 2019. This spring she earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Florida. Giles’ work has been exhibited in Mississippi, Florida, Iowa, Chicago, and New York. She received the 2021-2022 University of Florida Grinter Fellowship and the Sam B. Hamilton Noxubee Refuge Fellowship in 2019.
Lexus Giles
Home Girl 1, 2025
acrylic paint, gold leaf
$667
Lexus Giles
Home Girl 2, 2025
acrylic paint, gold leaf
$667
Lexus Giles
The Crumps, 2025 clay, underglaze, luster
$2,000
9” x 9” x 15”
Lexus Giles
Black Boy Joy: Kari, 2025 clay, underglaze, luster
$2,000
9” x 9” x 16”
Lexus Giles
Braids Beads and Afro, 2025
clay, underglaze, luster
$2,000 9” x 9” x 14”
Lexus Giles
Summertime ‘98 in Mississippi, 2025
clay, underglaze, luster
$2,000 9” x 9” x 17”
Lexus Giles
Bowrettes & Plaits, 2025
clay, underglaze, luster
$2,000
9” x 9” x 13”
Tommy Lomeli 2025 Taunt Fellow Lodi, California
Tommy Lomeli’s sculptural and mixed media work reimagines cultural identity through Mexican American car customization. Through the lens of lowrider aesthetics, he constructs pieces that call back to the vehicle as an extension of creative individuality within a regional movement. Lomeli’s artwork celebrates customs of storytelling through vibrant embellishment found in historic Mesoamerican artworks that are echoed in modern Chicano lowriders.
Tommy Lomeli is an emerging ceramic artist born in Stockton, California. Lomeli holds a BA from CSU Sacramento and an MFA from the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award, and first place at NCECA’s 2023 National Juried Student Exhibition.
stoneware, kandy paint, pearl flake
$4,200
14” x 12” x 26”
Carey Nathanson 2025 Lilian Fellow Wilmington, North Carolina
Carey Nathanson’s work is primarily hand-built cups, platters, bottles and other vessels made with the intention of being fired in the wood kiln. The goal is to fire 5 to 7 days to saturate the work with fly ash, encourage local reduction effects by building large ember beds and create dramatic surfaces with big color palettes. With each wood firing, the surfaces of the pieces record a snapshot in time of unique conditions and are affected by the place, materials and individual collaborators within that universe.
Carey Nathanson started working with clay during his high school years in his home town of Wilmington, North Carolina. In 2018 and 2019 he studied wood firing as a studio assistant under John Dix in Kobe, Japan and Nick Schwartz in Comptche, California. Since his time as an assistant, he has completed residencies at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Mendocino Art Center, STARworks, Red Lodge Clay Center, Cider Creek Collective and Sawtooth School for Visual Art.
Carey Nathanson
Dark Bottle, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$600
22” x 5” x 4”
Carey Nathanson
Kathy Bottle, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$600
22” x 4” x 4”
Carey Nathanson
Slag Basket, 2025
wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$600
22” x 11” x 7”
Carey Nathanson Black Jar, 2025
wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$350
11” x 7” x 7”
Carey Nathanson Pete Jar, 2025
wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$350
13” x 6” x 6”
Carey Nathanson
LD Cup, 2025 stoneware with shino glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Crete Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze, lacquer, gold
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Yella Cup, 2025 wood-fired porcelain with natural ash glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
CH Cup, 2025 stoneware with oribe glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson
Wash Cup, 2025 soda fired stoneware
$80
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Laddy Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze, lacquer, gold
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Dark G Cup, 2025 stoneware with oribe glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Icy Cup, 2025 soda fired stoneware
$80
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Leaner Cup, 2025 wood-fired porcelain with natural ash glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Gold Cat Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze, lacquer, gold
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Frost Cup, 2025 soda fired stoneware
$80
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson JR Cup, 2025 stoneware with shino glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Amber Cup, 2025 stoneware with oribe glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Peach Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with shino glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Wall Cup, 2025
wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Red Pete Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Sauce Cup, 2025 soda fired porcelain
$80
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Cat Y Cup, 2025
wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson World of J Cup, 2025 stoneware with oribe glaze
$70
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Carey Nathanson Light Gold Cup, 2025 wood-fired stoneware with natural ash glaze, lacquer, gold
$90
2.5” x 3” x 3”
Samuel Sarmiento
2025 Frazza Fellow Maracaibo, Venezuela
The ceramic works of Samuel Sarmiento are first of all objects. Depicting myths and literary stories from across the Caribbean and South America, they do so as sculpted surfaces that create their own boundaries. They are selfcontained worlds still connected to everything around them. History is palpable, bodies emerge from bodies emerging from bodies – or do they sink back into time, towards an origin we shall never know? There are forests, seas, cities, animals, trees, goddesses and humans and meaningful scenes. Humans tell each other about the universe, how it came to be; they pass on secrets of death and procreation together with truths of conflict and suffering – and a hope of redemption. As Sarmiento’s works capture a vibrant oral tradition, they also encapsulate the act of storytelling itself.
Samuel Sarmiento (Venezuela, 1987) is a selftaught artist. He has participated in various exhibitions, individually and collectively, in Venezuela, Colombia, Aruba, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Mexico, Panama, Argentina and China.
Samuel Sarmiento Traditional Making of Bricks and Tiles, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
River Goddess, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
Untitled (Distant Star), 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
Celestial Body in the Sky, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
The Origin of the Stars, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
The First Walls, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Samuel Sarmiento
Why are Beautiful Flowers?, 2025 glaze and gold luster on stoneware
Price Upon Request
Jason Lee Starin
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Through intuitive making with his hands, Jason Lee Starin’s work strives to extend the role of functionality beyond mere utility and towards a possibility that the making act is a haptic necessity which defines and sustains our human identity. Employing ceramics, discarded objects, and construction materials to create sculptures, his art practice attempts to find connections between craft, escapism, and emotional awareness. Artworks reference geological landforms, geometric structures, and the myths of creation and survival that intertwine our imagined and physical identities.
Starin holds an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft, and a BFA in ceramics from Grand Valley State University. In 2017, he received an Independence Foundation Fellowship Grant to research his interest in Geomythology during a two-month stay at the NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Starin has worked at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, BDDW, Mudshark Studios, Michael Curry Design, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Ferris State University.
Jason Lee Starin VISITOR_017, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$2,100
Jason Lee Starin
DJRARR_003, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$1,400
Jason Lee Starin ULTRAVISITOR_001, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$2,700
Jason Lee Starin
DJRARR_005, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$1,400
Jason Lee Starin
ULTRAVISITOR_002, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$2,700
Jason Lee Starin VISITOR_016, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$2,100
Jason Lee Starin
DJRARR_006, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$1,500
Jason Lee Starin
DJRARR_004, 2025
stoneware, cone 6, oxidation
$1,400
Kim Tucker
2025 Bray Fellow California
Kim Tucker’s figures are outsiders caught in moments of vulnerability, and her works are influenced by Beatrice Wood, Viola Frey, cave paintings and vintage figurines. She creates portraits of humans feeling weird, happy, lost, joyful and sometimes uncomfortable. Often with a female subject at the center, she uses figuration as a gestural means of expression to dig deeper into the psyche.
Kim Tucker studied ceramic sculpture under the direction of Viola Frey and Arthur Gonzalez at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland CA, graduating with High Distinction. She received her MFA in ceramics under the guidance of M.J. Bole at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Kim was a recent invited artist-in-residence at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, The Bray, and the American Museum of Ceramic Arts. Kim has shown her work at Gallery Futur (Switzerland), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Lauren Powell Projects, L2Kontemporary and AMcE Creative Arts.
From the Earth and Back, 2025 mid-range salt fired ceramic $7,300
Eliza Weber
2025 Speyer Fellow Great Falls, Montana
Eliza Weber’s work explores interconnectedness and materiality in a variety of mediums including ceramic, paper, found objects, and textiles. Through considerations of duality and context, with explorations in emotion and play, individual pieces and installations become abstracted reflections of the world around us. Influenced by the curation of domestic places and the management of environments, interior and exterior overlap, acknowledging the ways in which objects, the self, and others occupy space.
Eliza Weber completed her MFA at Arizona State University and BFA at The University of Montana. She has completed short residencies at Medalta in Alberta, Canada and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. Eliza was also an Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, Washington. Returning home, she was Director of Education at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls, Montana. She served on the boards of NCECA and the Ceramics Research Center, presently serving on the NCECA Green Task Force. Eliza is currently a Long-Term Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.
Eliza Weber
Daisy Wallpaper, 2025 found wallpaper, stoneware, kanthal wire
$750
45” x 22” x 1”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Painting, 2025 stoneware
$425
16” x 18” x 1”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 1, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$60
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 3, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$55
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 5, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$50
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Green Shelf 2, 2025 found shelf, dyed papaer pulp, paint
$75
6” x 7” x 9”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Painting 4, 2025 ceramic
$65
8” x 5” x 0.5”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Wallpaper 2, 2025 found wallpaper, stoneware
$175
11” x 7” x 0.5”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Painting 2, 2025 stoneware
$375
13” x 14” x 0.5”
Eliza Weber Daisy Brick, 2025 ceramic
$175
12” x 6” x 6”
Eliza Weber
Green Shelf 1, 2025 found shelf, dyed paper pulp
$60
5” x 9” x 4”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Frame, 2025 found wallpaper, stoneware, kanthal wire
$650
20” x 16” x 1”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Wallpaper 3, 2025 found wallpaper, stoneware
$175
14” x 10” x 0.5”
Eliza Weber Daisy Painting 3, 2025 stoneware
$375
16” x 16” x 0.5”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 2, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$60
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 4, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$55
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Cup 6, 2025 cone 6 porcelain
$50
5” x 3” x 3”
Eliza Weber
Green Shelf 3, 2025 found shelf, dyed paper pulp, paint
$75
6” x 7” x 9”
Eliza Weber
Daisy Wall Flowers (lg), 2025 cone 6 stoneware
$65 ea.
Eliza Weber
Daisy Wall Flowers (sm), 2025 cone 6 stoneware
$50 ea.
Eliza Weber
Posts, 2025 found wood post end cuts, dyed paper pulp, paint, yarn
$60 ea.
10” x 5” x 5”