Current Resident Artists
PATRICIA COUNTRYMAN
About Me
Patricia Countryman is a latinx ceramic artist born and raised in a border town of Arizona and Mexico. She received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics at Western New Mexico University. Patricia is experienced in sculpting, wheel throwing, ceramic mural/public art and tile making.
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I am interested in life and our character as variables. I work in a way of interpreting struggling moments into a metaphor for growth and reflection. I focus on the challenging experiences; it’s those trying times where the shedding and adding of personal qualities are more abrupt. By tuning into psychological coping processes I look to express this idea of balancing out characteristics. This allows me to bring out the duality of a person in this state and represent the two sides or a cycle. As I work I take the malleability of one’s character and emphasize it through the figure to produce a moment of reflection.
CLAIRE KAVENEY
About Me
Claire Kaveney is a multidisciplinary artist whose work inspects the human body in respect to queerness and digital media. Their practice centers on experimentation with fleshy, squishy, pliable, organic forms through which they both inhabit and recreate their body, memory, and environment. A born and raised Montanan, Claire is currently based out of Missoula. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts and Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Montana in 2025. When Claire isn't making art, you can find them working as a sewing machine technician or catching crawdads at the river.
BRUCE KITTS
About Me
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Bruce Kitts was born and raised in Central Illinois where he received his BFA from SIU at Carbondale in 2009 that followed up with a two year residency at Terra Incognito in Oak Park, Illinois. He received his MA from EIU in 2012. As a member of the Illinois Artisan Program, his work has been displayed in various galleries and museums throughout Illinois. In 2015, Bruce left for the west coast where he was a studio tech and artist in resident at the Mendocino Art Center. Since then, his work has been displayed in several nationally juried exhibitions. In 2017, Bruce moved to Helena, MT to work as a studio potter and currently resides in Missoula, MT.
LINDSEY TUCKER
About Me
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I am an Idaho-born Missoulian with a passion for community-building via the arts. Intrigue into cultural expression and the relationships between self & other and function & aesthetics fueled my studies (BFA in ceramics & photography and BA in anthropology at University of Montana). These continue to inspire me and my art-making, which is currently focused on functional ceramic wares (mostly cups and earrings).
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My professional background is years of hybrid positions in food/beverage/hospitality, teaching, and the arts. When not making in/working for the Studio, I run a kitchen that features immigrant/refugee chefs through Soft Landing Missoula, put on music & food events, and enjoy the outdoors.
