Thursday Oct. 18, The Archie Bray Foundation
9 am -noon Simultaneous demos by Catherine White, Nancy Fuller, Linda Lid and Scott Parady
lunch break food trucks and reception for the presenters exhibition in The North Gallery
1 pm - 4 pm Simultaneous demos by Lindsay Oesterritter, Shirobey Kobayashi, Julia Isidrez, and Sandy Lockwood
Thursday evening Oct. 18, Great Northern Town Center/Best Western
7 pm Keynote Welcome Address - Josh DeWeese
“Punters” exhibition and symposium firing results - social
Friday Oct. 19, Great Northern Town Center/Best Western
9 -10:30 “New Traditions” podcast recording with Ben Carter and Tales of a Clay Rambler including Lindsay Oesterritter, Nancy Fuller, Robin Dupont, Zac Chalmers, Tristan Chambaud-Heraud, Shikamaru Takeshita, and Linda Lid
10:40 – 11:10 Scott Ross – “Working Solid: Making and Firing Solid Ceramics”
11:15 – 11:45 John Neely
Lunch break – catered at Great Northern
1 – 1:30 Sandy Lockwood - “Collaborating with Uncertainty - Towards Visual Complexity”
1:30 – 2 George McCauley - “Earthenware Wood Firing”
2 – 3:30 “Applied Aesthetics” panel moderator – Denny Gerwin, panelists – Linda Christianson, Shirobey Kobayashi, and Trevor Dunn
5 - 8 “Rivers of Flame: Montana Tributaries” reception, Holter Museum of Art
6 – 9 “Emerging Ceramist exhibition” reception, Free Ceramics
Saturday Oct. 20, Great Northern Town Center/Best Western
9 – 10:30 “Education” panel, moderator - John Neely, panelists – Matthew Blakely, Pascal Geoffroy, Sandy Lockwood
10:30 – 11 Catherine White “Seeds of Ideas”
11:15 – 11:45 Daniel Lafferty “kilns”
Lunch break – on your own
1 – 2 “Education Part II: Aprenticeships, residencies,” panel moderator - Robin Dupont, panelists - Jody Johnstone, Scott Parady, Martin Tagseth, Tara Wilson
2 – 3 Hideo Mabuchi “Materiality, Material Agency and Material Science
3:15 – 4 Linda Christianson “Closing Address”
4:30 Train kiln unload at the Archie Bray Foundation
6:30 cash bar
7 Catered Dinner