Salt Fired Cups art

Salt Fired Cups art4" 5" Tall Bozeman native, Kirk Belding throws some beautiful pots! Unique glazes through a salt firing process produces some incredible color variations in Kirk's pieces. Salt firing is a vapor glazing process where salt (sodium chloride) is introduced into kiln firebox at high temperature. The salt vaporizes, and sodium vapor combines with silica in clay surface, forming extremely hard sodium silicate glaze.

She sat side by side with him as he created professional hand painted signs

much of it fired with the traditionally Japanese Raku technique

such as digging for natural clay to mix into unique glazes

in the Bitterroot

April Leavey is a ceramicist based out of Clyde Park

Stephanie’s designs are not a mere replication of nature

both in material and detail

Stephanie Zier’s aim is to create pieces that establish a deep connection with the wearer

Chris Bieniek of North Ridge Ceramics followed his love of the mountains to Montana

Adorn to Rise is a soulfully produced jewelry to accompany you on your journey and to cherish for lifetimes to come

as if the dialog between the painting and the viewer is not quite finished

Some of her fabricated originals or certain components are molded and cast to cut down on physical labor but that still comes with a lot of hand finishing work