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For the fifty years of its existence, the Archie Bray Foundation has been a continuous, unique, and important center for the arts. Archie Bray envisioned his pottery as a place where young artists could use the brickyard's clays and kilns, hone their skills, learn from each other, and develop a sensibility about the Foundation's signature production ware. In 1951, Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio became the Bray's first two resident artists. By the start of the 1960s, they had accomplished a revolution in the concept of ceramic art. A series of resident directors, themselves artists, have overseen the development and expansion of the Bray Foundation's programs and workshops. An ever-increasing number of young artists continue to find support and inspiration there, largely because of the three rugged individualists who gave it life and impetus. "It is a place," writes curator Peter Held, "where people come of age, finding a niche in the centuries-old continuum of the ceramic arts." "You get notorious when you start a pottery in the middle of the wilderness," Peter Meloy reflected, looking back on his own backyard pottery beginnings in Helena, Montana, in the late 1940s. Meloy went on to

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Author

Patricia Failing; Janet Koplos; Chere Jiusto; Rick Newby; Peter Held

Publisher

Helena, Mont.: Holter Museum of Art ; Seattle ; University of Washington Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295981079

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14