Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of ceramics at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he and his wife Rosalie Wynkoop have recently built a home and studio. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. DeWeese has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections.

www.deweeseart.com/Josh

EDUCATION

 

1991 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. MFA

1985 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. BFA

1980-82 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Present Assistant Professor, Ceramics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1992-2006 Resident Director, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

1992 Ceramics Faculty Affiliate, 2-D Foundations Instructor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1991 Children’s Ceramics Instructor, pre-school and 5th-6th grade levels, Vermont State Craft Center,

Frog Hollow, Middlebury, Vermont

Workshop Monitor, Jeff Oestreich workshop, Haystack Mountain School for the Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

1988-89, 90 Resident Artist & Instructor, Archie Bray Foundation

1986-88 Co-Founder, The Studio, ceramic studio cooperative, Mendocino, CA

Co-Coordinator, Summer Ceramics Program, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California

 

Studio participant, State of California Regional Occupational Program-Pottery, Mendocino Art Center

Mendocino, CA

 

• AWARDS

 

2007 Jean Griffith Fellowship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

Residency Award, LH Project, Joseph, OR

2004 Second Place, Form Follows Function, National Juried Exhibition, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

2000 Jurors Award, Porcelain 2000, National Juried Exhibition, Esmay Fine Art, Rochester, NY

1999 Amaco Award, 7th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA

Garwin Family Foundation Award, Clay Cup VII, University Museum, SIU-Carbondale, IL

1998 Zimmerman, Pfannebecker and Nufort Award Winner, 6th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery

National Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA

1997 Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Helena, MT

Award Winner, ANA 26, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

Award Winner, 5th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, MHCC, Ephrata, PA

Award Winner, Feats of Clay X, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA

1994 Award Winner, Studio Days Invitational '94, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA Award Winner, Clay National, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

1992 Second Place, Great Lakes National, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991 Third Place, Anticipation 91, New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

1988 Summer Grant Recipient, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2009 Josh DeWeese; Featured Artist, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IO

2009 Artstream NCECA Tour, invitational, Flagstaff and Phoenix, AZ

Potters as Sculptors, Sculptors as Potters, invitational, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ

Imprints, invitational, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2009 Archie Bray NCECA Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ

Yunomi, invitational, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IO

The Form of Function, invitational, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA

MSU Art Department Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Jessie Wilbur Gallery, Emerson Cultural Center,

Bozeman, MT

2008 DeWeese/Wynkoop Pottery Holiday Openhouse, DeWeese/Wynkoop Pottery, Bozeman, MT

Ho Ho Holter Holiday Exhibition, invitational, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

Holiday Exhibition, invitational, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

Obamaware, invitational, online benefit auction, organized by Ayumi Horie, Cottekill, NY

Archie Bray Foundation Past and Present Residents, The Nevica Project, Galaxie Gallery, Chicago, IL

32nd Annual Art Auction, invitational, Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT

Emerson Cultural Center Benefit Auction, Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT

Montana Futures Raffle, Montana Environmental Information Center, Helena, MT

A Collector’s Passion; Selections from the Dwight M. Holland Collection,

Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Ceramic Montana, invitational, University Center Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Simply Devine Wine Classic, invitational benefit auction, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT

Tactile Poetry; National Biennial Ceramics Invitational, Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL

Pour and Contain, invitational, Roswell Clay Collective, Roswell, GA

Art Mobile of Montana, traveling educational exhibition, Montana (based in Dillon, MT)

American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

Resident Artist Benefit Live Auction, invitational, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, invitational, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Tara Wilson: In Collaboration, invitational, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT

2008 Visiting Artists Exhibition, North Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

21th Holter Museum Annual Art Auction, invited guest, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

The Art of the Pot, invitational, studio tour, Austin, TX

The Ninth Annual Clay Invitational Show, The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID

Potsketch 2008, invitational, benefit auction, The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT

Northwest Connection: Contemporary Works in Clay, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College,

Pasco, WA

Montana Woodfire Exhibition, invitational, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT

Art on the Vine 2008, invitational benefit auction, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

Residents at the Bray 2007, NCECA Exhibition, 3rd Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Ceramix, invitational, Manchester Craftsmen Guild, Pittsburgh, PA

The Greatest Show on Earth, invitational, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

La Mesa, invitational, Santa Fe Clay, Westin Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA

2008 Artstream Tour, invitational, Kansas City, MO; Morgantown, WV; and Pittsburgh, PA

Santa Fe Clay Summer Faculty Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM

Glory of the West; Contemporary Montana Artists from the Waller-Yoblonsky Collection,

Shack Up Gallery, Bozeman, MT

Soul On Fire-Ceramarama Benefit Auction, invitational, Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State

University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Yunomi, invitational, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IO

40th Annual Art Auction and Exhibition, juried, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

We Are One: MAM’s 36th Annual Benefit Art Auction, juried exhibition,

Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT

Jean Griffith Fellowship Exhibition, 2-person exhibition, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA