Josh DeWeese is a potter. Not a Bozeman potter or a Montana potter, but a world potter. In a lecture for the Bozeman Art Museum entitled “A Life in Clay,” he tells about his history, his influences, his materials and techniques. He talks about his pots and about building kilns, each unique in what he calls the “compressed geology” of the firing process. His love for the medium animates every sentence. If you know Josh’s work, the absence of images in this recording is no impediment. If not, or you would like to see more, you can view Josh’s work online at joshdeweese.com.

Recorded at the Museum of the Rockies on November 6, 2019.

Bill Stockton and Gennie DeWeese are two first-generation Montana modernist artists whose work, beginning in the 1950s, impacted contemporary art in the Big Sky state. As art historian Michele Corriel describes, their work was often overlooked because of isolation or gender. In addition to biographical background, we learn about the role and significance of place for these artists, and how it interacted with concepts of abstraction developing at the time. (more…)