For the second year in a row, Tinworks Art: In Conversation brings together artists, writers, scientists, and creative thinkers from various fields to discuss the topics of our time. From March to July, Tinworks will convene thought leaders from the region and beyond for a series of conversations titled The Earth Beneath Our Feet. The conversations have been developed in consideration of Tinworks’ 2025 exhibition season, running June 21 - October 18, which will feature ceramic, clay, and earthen artworks by regional and international, historical and contemporary artists, and a continued activation of Tinworks’ field by ecological artist Agnes Denes. Development of topics and speaker invitations for this second series have been in collaboration with Mary Stein and Mary Murphy.

Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted at The Rialto in downtown Bozeman. Doors at 7pm, event at 7:30pm.

JOSH DEWEESE Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He is currently Director of Montana State University School of Art and Professor of ceramics. 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. Together with artist Dean Adams he co-founded the International Wild Clay Research Project, studying the use of indigenous ceramic materials and processes around the world, traveling to China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Chile, Brazil, and Italy.

RICK NEWBY Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky (with Suzanne Hunger); An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’ Project (with Megan Hiller, Alexandra Swaney, and Elaine Peterson); and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of FriedaFligelman (with Alexandra Swaney); and Roger Dunsmore’s On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966–2018. Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared in national and international journals and in numerous exhibition catalogs. Rick’s most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell – My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959–2016, which received the High Plains Book Award, Art/Photography, 2018. In 2024, Drumlummon Institute published Rick’s selected essays, A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022.

Tinworks gratefully acknowledges the following for their generous support of In Conversation

Lead Sponsors American Bank The Lark Minarik Architecture Rialto

Supporting Sponsors Yellowstone Public Radio Cornerstone Management Services

Community Sponsors 45 Architecture & Interiors Abby Hetherington Interiors Charles Schwab Edible Bozeman Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting Montana State University Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands & Peoples of the North American West Root Cellar Foods