For the second year in a row, Tinworks Art: In Conversation brings together artists, writers, scientists, and creative thinkers from various fields to discuss the topics of our time. From March to July, Tinworks will convene thought leaders from the region and beyond for a series of conversations titled The Earth Beneath Our Feet. The conversations have been developed in consideration of Tinworks’ 2025 exhibition season, running June 21 - October 18, which will feature ceramic, clay, and earthen artworks by regional and international, historical and contemporary artists, and a continued activation of Tinworks’ field by ecological artist Agnes Denes. Development of topics and speaker invitations for this second series have been in collaboration with Mary Stein and Mary Murphy.

Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted at The Rialto in downtown Bozeman. Doors at 7pm, event at 7:30pm.

JOSH DEWEESE Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He is currently Director of Montana State University School of Art and Professor of ceramics. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. DeWeese has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. Together with artist Dean Adams he co-founded the International Wild Clay Research Project, studying the use of indigenous ceramic materials and processes around the world, traveling to China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Chile, Brazil, and Italy.

JULIA GALLOWAY Julia Galloway is a potter with an active studio practice and a professor of ceramics at the University of Montana, Missoula. Julia has exhibited across the United States, Canada, and Asia and her work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery – Washington DC, Long Beach Art Museum – Long Beach CA, the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art – Pomona, CA, and Alfred Ceramics Art Museum in New York. She was recently awarded a United States Artist Grant and named a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Montana. Julia has served on the board of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, as well as a Director at Large on the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Julia is dedicated to education, whether on a traditional college campus, a crafts school or local arts center; she has taught more than two hundred and fifty workshops, demonstrations and lectures. In addition, she has developed and maintains service based educational websites: ‘Montana Clay’, “Field Guide for Ceramic Artisans”, ‘Library of Cups – website for critiquing’, ‘Random Acts of Clay’ and ‘Making History’. Julia was named the 2023 Artist of the Year by the Ceramics Arts Network and Ceramics monthly publication.

Tinworks gratefully acknowledges the following for their generous support of In Conversation

Lead Sponsors American Bank The Lark Minarik Architecture Rialto

Supporting Sponsors Yellowstone Public Radio Cornerstone Management Services

Community Sponsors 45 Architecture & Interiors Abby Hetherington Interiors Broken Ground Charles Schwab Edible Bozeman Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting KGLT Montana State University Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands & Peoples of the North American West Root Cellar Foods Green Seam Designs Gallatin Gutterworks