Artist Talk- Visiting Artists Beth Cavener and Tip Toland to present at the Archie Bray Foundation
Archie Bray Resident Center
Wednesday, July 18, beginning at 7:30 pm
Free and open to the public.

Archie Bray visiting artists Beth Cavener and Tip Toland will present a talk on their work and influences at the Archie Bray Foundation Residence Center at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, July 18.

Beth Cavener is currently a full-time professional studio artist working in Helena, Montana. She received her BA in sculpture from Haverford College and her MFA from Ohio State University. She was awarded the Artist Trust Fellowship in 2009, the Jean Griffith Foundation Fellowship in 2006, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 2005 and the American Craft Council’s Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2004. She has also been an artist in residence at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia and the Archie Bray Foundation. Cavener has taught numerous workshops across the country. She has exhibited nationally, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and internationally. She is currently represented by Clark DelVecchio in Santa Fe, New Mexico and created a professional studio space under the name Studio 740 in Helena, Montana.

Tip Toland’s work is included in prominent public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Yellowstone Art Museum, Montana; Archie Bray Foundation, Montana; Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin and private collections worldwide. Toland has exhibited at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington; the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin; and the Tacoma Art Museum, Washington. She has been the recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, a First Place Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 2004, an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in 2007, a Jean Griffith Fellowship Artist Award in 2009, the United States Artists Windgate Fellowship Award in 2014 and the Zanesville Prize Best of Show for Contemporary Ceramics in 2017.

The Bray is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the enrichment of the ceramic arts, located at 2915 Country Club Ave. in Helena, just 1/3 mile west of Spring Meadow Lake. Galleries are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm and Sunday 1 –5 pm.