APPLICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN 2025 TOUR DUE:
January 6, 2025
The Montana Clay Tour showcases a cross-section of Montana's many clay artists. We aim to enrich the ceramic community and educate and entertain the public. We are dedicated to showing and selling high-quality ceramic work and are not affiliated with any group. The current clay tour hosts include Robert Harrison, Tara Wilson, Joe Crowley, George McCauley, and Sunshine Cobb.
To apply to be invited to show your work on the Tour, you must:
1. Live in Montana. Exceptions may be made when, for example, an artist has arranged to rent studio space from a host for the summer or if a host has an assistant who lives in Montana for most of the year.
2. Not be participating in a residency at any of the clay residencies in Montana (RLCC, Archie Bray Foundation, Clay Studio of Missoula, etc.)
3. Not be a student.
4. Consider yourself to be a “professional” artist. This is sometimes difficult to define. You do not have to have an MFA or any kind of qualification to be a professional. You may have another job or supplement your income as an artist in other ways. To us, professional means that you are dedicated to ceramics as your main focus and that you make high quality, well-crafted work.
It is impossible to include all qualified artists every year, but we are committed to showing a variety of artists and rotating them from year to year. The host committee will meet in mid-January and select from the applicants pool. Each host will choose a group that works well together for their space. Consequently, an artist might be invited one year and not the next. Or one artist may be invited by one host one year and a different one the next. In other words, an invitation for one year does not guarantee you a spot in future years, and if you aren’t invited for one year, apply again!
To apply, please send an email to the following address:
montanaclaytour@gmail.com
Subject line: application
Include in your email:
1. Your name
2. artist statement
3. bio
4. website and Instagram link
5. 6-10 images of current work and one artist portrait. Images must be labeled with name and number, for example, tarawilson1, tarawilson2
Note: The application is free! However, once invited, each artist pays a participation fee of $100. This fee covers all promotional materials, mailings, etc.
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 6, 2025