Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts

Now on view, recent acquisitions to the permanent collection!

This exhibition features work created by our more recent resident artists. Check it out in The Bray's North Gallery.

It's almost time for our annual summer celebration! Purchase your tickets today!✨🎟

Join us for The Bray's Brickyard Bash, bringing our community together for an evening of art, music, food, and fun on our historic brickyard campus. Enjoy delicious offerings from local food trucks, beer and wine from Blackfoot River Brewing Co., and live music from the Big Sky Mudflaps while gathering with friends and fellow supporters of the ceramic arts. 🎶🍷🍺

This year's theme, Homecoming, embodies the nostalgia of reuniting with the people and places that have shaped you. From first firings, late nights in the studios, and the community that made you who you are as an artist — we're so ready to welcome you home. Dust off your best homecoming dress or suit, cheerleader uniform, or whatever feels most like you, and get ready for a night of fun. 👗👔📣

This evening will also feature a live auction of one-of-a-kind collaborative artworks - pieces you won't find anywhere else! Proceeds from the event help support The Bray's mission to provide a creative environment where artists can live, work, and push the boundaries of ceramics. Join us for a lively summer night in the brickyard as we celebrate art, community, and the artists who make it all possible!

Purchase tickets and register to bid at

Brickyard Bash & Auction V.I.P. 4:30 - 6 pm | General Admission 6 - 10:30 pm

Our Summer Experience Classes are available now!

The Bray's Education department offers a wide variety of one-time experience classes for anyone to get acquainted with clay. From hand-building to wheel throwing, we have classes for all skill levels.

Sign up for a class today at https://archiebray.org/education/experience-classes/

Nathan Anthony, Long-Term Resident

Nathan Anthony is an artist from the UK currently living in Austin, Texas. He completed a joint MA (Hons) in Fine Art & Art History at Edinburgh University in 2014 and an MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin in 2025. He was included in the 2016 - 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, and had a solo exhibition at Generator Projects, Dundee, in 2017. He was Artist-in-Residence at Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex, from 2017 - 2019, and Artist-in-Residence at Eltham College in London from 2019 - 2022, where he made an exhibition of artwork called ‘Muscled Memory’ at the Gerald Moore Gallery in 2021. In 2023, he received a Gilbert Bayes Award for early-career sculptors from the Royal Society of Sculptors. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Dougherty Arts Centre in Austin, Texas.

If you haven't seen it yet, we have a new gallery website!

To celebrate, we are offering a 10% discount on all of our merchandise online. Use code NEWSTORE10 at checkout!

This discount is valid until the end of the day on June 7, 2026.

Shop now at https://archiebraygallery.org/

This is the last week to get a planter at 15% off!🌸

Stop by and browse our selection before the end of the month!🌷

Please note, this is an in-store discount.

There is still space in Marian Draper's upcoming workshop, Print Your Landscape: Floral Design With Clay!🌸🌼🌷🌻

In this hands-on workshop, students will hike nearby Helena trails to gather inspiration for their pieces. Back in the studio, you'll learn and explore a variety of techniques, including throwing, altering, carving, inlay, and more. The final day of this workshop consists of arranging cut flowers in finished bisque vases made on the first day of class.

Don't miss your chance to participate in one of our most immersive workshops for the 2026 session!

The full workshop takes place June 4-7, 2026
Learn more and register at https://archiebraygallery.org/products/print-your-landscape-floral-design-with-clay-workshop

If you weren't able to stop by Pots & Plants last week, don't worry! We still have pieces in the gallery for you to take home, with a little bonus...

For the rest of May, the remaining planters are 15% off! Don't miss this opportunity to bring home a piece of art for you or someone special! 🌼🌸

The Bray Gallery and Visitor Center is open Tuesday-Friday, 11:00-5:00.

Please note, this discount is in-store only.

I view my current artistic practice as a way of building archives for future generations. I am utilizing ceramics to construct vessels and objects that serve as containers for other media—literature, cinema, performance, and music—projected into an uncertain future. Above all, my primary focus is seeking new ways to tell stories.

Being an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation has allowed me to further professionalize my practice, providing me with technical tools that empower me to take my work to the next level. Venues in New York, Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels have served as stages where I share these narratives from an intersectional perspective, both as an artist and as an individual.

I am deeply grateful to everyone who has supported the development of my work during this wonderful residency. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any artist looking to explore ceramics as a primary form of expression.

- Samuel Sarmiento

Explore the beauty of Montana's landscape while learning how to bring nature into your ceramics in Print Your Landscape: Floral Design With Clay, taught by Marian Draper!

In this hands-on workshop, students will hike nearby Helena trails to gather inspiration for creating. Back in the studio, you’ll learn and explore a variety of techniques, including throwing, altering, carving, inlay, newspaper transfers, and the use of spring molds. On the final day, students will design and arrange cut flowers in finished bisque vases made on the first day of class.

This immersive experience combines Montana’s natural beauty with creative exploration, giving students the opportunity to develop skills, experiment with form and surface, and enjoy a truly inspiring artistic process.

This workshop takes place June 4-7, 2026.
Learn more and register at https://archiebraygallery.org/products/print-your-landscape-floral-design-with-clay-workshop