About this experience
Registration for this workshop opens Monday, August 31, 2026 at 10 AM MT
NOTE: please no walk-ins or phone calls for registration, only online registration will be accepted.
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We are excited to announce our Fall Workshop with Jane and Sam
The 2 day, demo based workshop is free. The $25 fee includes registration, coffee & refreshment during the workshop. Plus, your participation in a community dinner on Saturday evening with the artists at Fox Studio.
All Attendees must register
There will be no refunds
workshop schedule:
Friday October 16, 2026
5-7pm- gallery reception with the Jane and Sam. Jane will have a solo show in our Loft Gallery, and Sam will be our October Featured Artist. Gallery receptions are free and open to the public, all are welcome.
Saturday October 17, 2026
9am-12pm- artist talks, demos (out at Fox Studio)
coffee, tea and light snacks provided
12-1pm-LUNCH: TBA
(RLCC will invite a local food truck, prices and menu will vary. Feel free to participate, or to provide your own lunch)
1pm-4pm-demos (Out at Fox Studio)
4-6pm BREAK (we invite you to visit the Gallery-123 Broadway, Red Lodge)
6pm catered dinner (out at Fox Studio), registration required, (dinner fees are covered by your $25 registration)
Sunday October 18, 2026
9:30-1:30pm -demos (out at Fox Studio)
coffee, tea and light snacks provided
Addresses:
Fox Studio-463 Two Mile Bridge Rd, Roberts, MT
Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery- 123 S. Broadway, Red Lodge Montana
About our Presenters:
Both a studio potter and educator, Jane Shellenbarger i received her B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, and her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Following graduate school, she worked as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, in Helena, MT. Shellenbarger established her studio pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Michigan in 1997.
She has held teaching positions at Northern Michigan University and Kansas City Art Institute and currently is a Professor in the School for American Crafts in the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Shellenbarger has exhibited her work in several galleries around the country including Leslie Ferrin Gallery, Lacoste Gallery, Philadelphia Clay Studio, Red Lodge Clay Center and Baltimore Clay works among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Ohi Museum, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, San Bao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China, Weisman Art Museum, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and The University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
Samuel Johnson is an American potter known for his unique, functional ceramics, often made through a traditional wood-firing process. His pieces reflect a fascination with the interplay between order and organic irregularity, resulting in surfaces marked by natural variations and dark, shadowy textures. Johnson studied painting and ceramics at the University of Minnesota before apprenticing with noted potter Richard Bresnahan. He further honed his skills in Denmark and Japan, where he explored Scandinavian and Japanese ceramic styles and later earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa. Johnson currently teaches at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota and has served on the board of Artaxis.org, a non-profit that supports ceramic artists worldwide. Johnson’s work has been shown in over 150 group and solo exhibitions and is included in the permanent collections of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art, the Rourke Art Museum and featured on the Cover of Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
Johnson's work often explores human themes through the physical characteristics of his pottery, and his process emphasizes the unpredictable, organic changes introduced by the intense heat of the wood kiln. His pieces often appear both symmetrical and slightly distressed, representing a blend of control and natural variation that he sees as a metaphor for human life.
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OPI Credits for Educators: Red Lodge Clay Center will offer 10 credit units for full participation (Sunday and Saturday) of this workshop. Please email Rachael- Programs Coordinator to fill out the certification, and be sure to sign in for BOTH days at the workshop.
Your Host
It is our mission to support artists, the creative process and to provide a place for professionally minded ceramic artists to create new work. Red Lodge Clay Center hosts Visiting Artist workshops, lectures, demonstrations, gallery exhibitions, and educational programming to share with our resident artists and the general public the importance of art in our everyday lives. Red Lodge Clay Center is fully committed to being actively anti-racist, and to work for lasting and systemic changes in the field of ceramics and in our community.