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2009
July 11-Aug.1
Reception Saturday, July 11 from 5-9 pm.
Born and raised in Red Lodge, MT, Sue Tirrell received a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1997. She served as Education Director for the Custer County Art & Heritage Center in Miles City, MT for seven years where she implemented arts education outreach to rural schools and communities. She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT; California State University, Chico; and the Custer County Art & Heritage Center in Miles City. Tirrell's work has been included in regional and national juried and invitational exhibitions and she is represented regionally by Visions West Gallery in Denver, Livingston & Bozeman, Toucan Gallery in Billings, MT; Dana Gallery in Missoula, MT; ArtFusion in Big Fork, MT and the Holter Museum Sales Gallery, Helena, MT. She currently lives in Pray, MT where she maintains a studio and provides art workshops to area schools.
Narrative sculpture is my true passion in clay; however, functional pots are my first love and I always find time to make them. My pots help me unwind and have a little fun in the studio-they come together faster than my sculptures do and provide a canvas for playful, animated drawings of the wild and domestic animals living in our neighborhood. As I take pleasure in tea each morning from a handmade cup, I know that someone out there is finding one of my cups, filling it, and enjoying a gift from my home and my hands.
Education:
1997 Batchelor of Fine Arts, concentration in Ceramics, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1995 Associate of Arts, Cottey College
Selected Exhibitions:
2009 Beyond the Brickyard Juried show, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT January - March 2009
2008 Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Art Auction Exhibit, Billings, MT January - March 2008 and every year since 1999
Group Show at the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA April 2008
100 Years of Progress Two-Person Show, Visions West Gallery, Denver, CO June - Aug 2008
Archie Bray Resident Scholarship Auction, Helena, MT June 2008
Featured Artist, Holter Museum Store, Helena Montana June - July 2008
Drawn, Group Show, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT December, 2008
2007 New Year Solo Exhibition, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT Jan 5 - Feb 24 2007
Guest Curator of A Place at the Table: A Ceramic Invitational Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT July 1 - Aug 16th
Two-Person Show, Visions West Gallery, Livingston, MT July 24 - Sept. 20 2007
2006 Near and Far Harris Street Gallery, Helena, MT June - Aug 2006
Archie Bray Resident Scholarship Auction, Helena, MT June 2006
Ride on the Wild Side, Two-Person Show, Visions West Gallery, Livingston, MT July - Aug 2006
2005 Two-Woman Show, Carbon County Arts Guild, Red Lodge, MT April 2005
Western Art Roundup, Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT May - June 2005
Featured Artist, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT July 2005
Annual Art Auction Exhibit, Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT Aug. - Oct. 2005 and every year since 1998
Winter Showcase, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT Oct. - Dec. 2005
2004 16 Hands, Solo Exhibition, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2005
Two - Person Show, Visions West Gallery, Bozeman MT Aug. - Sept. 2004
Archie Bray Past Residents Show, Red Sky Gallery, Spokanne, WA June - Aug. 2004
2003 Past, Present, Future, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings MT Oct. - Dec. 2003
Six-Person Show, Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT August - September 2003
2002 Innovations in Sculptural Ceramics, Beal Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT Nov. - Jan. 2002
Archie Bray Resident Exhibition, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago IL Oct. - Nov. 2002
Genus/Species: Four-Woman Show, Hood College, Frederick, MD Oct. - Nov. 2002
Six-Person Show, Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT Aug. - Sept. 2002
2001 Southeastern Montana Clay Invitational, Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT June - Aug. 2001
In the Music of Horses, Two-Person Show, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT May 2001
Beaux Arts Ball Art Auction and Gala, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, MT 2001
2000 Six-Person Show, Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT June - July 2000
Invitational Postcard Exhibit, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT June - July 2000
Beaux Arts Ball and Art Auction, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, MT 2000
1999 Juried Show, Schoolhouse History and Art Center, Colstrip, MT Oct. - Nov. 19999 *Best of Show
Art Equinox: Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT Aug. 2 - Oct. 2 1999
Origins in Clay: Juried Exhibition, Hill County Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX July 18 - Aug. 16 1999
Solo Exhibition, Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT March 18 - May 2 1999
1998 Lower Yellowstone Invitational Exhibition, Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, MT Nov. 21 - Dec. 31 1998
1997 Special Exhibit of Ceramic Art, Whitewares Research Center Biannual Meeting, Alfred, NY October, 1997
Enlarged to Show Texture, Two-Person Show, Robert Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY March 1997
1995 First Annual International Collegiate Ceramics Competition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA April - May 1995
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