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For the first time, Radius is offering handmade, customizable tableware sets, made to order. We asked three talented artists, each with their own unique touch, to commit to making cohesive dinnerware sets for our clientele and each artist presented TWO sets to choose from.
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COURTNEY MICHAUD
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STEPHANIE SEGUIN
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TARA WILSON
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ARTIST BIOS
COURTNEY MICHAUD
By bringing my ceramics to a table setting, shelf or hand I create pieces that can unassumingly shift sentiments and awareness. A pot can comfort, mark occasion or become intertwined with a life. My pottery reflects moments when I’m surrounded by nature and feel singular in the world. Wide horizon lines, vibrant or subtle skies and natural patterns translate through color and shape. Simple incisions invite the hand and soft rims support the lip. Sleek and assertive forms provide a canvas for color and draw the eye. A love of Modernism and industrial design contrasts natural influences, simplifying forms and streamlining silhouettes.
—Courtney Michaud
Courtney Michaud is the Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Western New Mexico University. Originally from New York state, she has an MFA from Pennsylvania State University and a BFA from Alfred University. Making and teaching in the mountains of southern New Mexico, Michaud strives to incorporate the natural environment, ceramic history, and contemporary art in her studio practice.
STEPHANIE SEGUIN
Dualities and boundaries are my greatest source of inspiration. How can minimal become excess? Where does a reference become a connection? When does nuance become novel? These instigating questions establish a relationship with viewers of my work and create a cyclical rhythm of thinking, acting, and viewing. I have an idea, I make my idea, I see my idea. Viewers look, stay, and contemplate. It’s a flexible relationship that can be momentary or enduring.
—Stephanie Seguin
Stephanie Seguin is an artist and educator based in Helena, Montana. She received an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, and a BFA from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Born and raised in the Minneapolis area, Seguin used her ambitions with clay to work at various production and educational studios across the US and abroad. Seguin was a long-term resident artist at Carbondale Clay Center, and has taught community and academic classes at Penn State, Colorado Mountain College, Western New Mexico University, and elsewhere. She is currently the Education Manager at the Archie Bray Foundation.
TARA WILSON
Embodied in my wood-fired vessels is the serenity I myself experience in a rich natural environment. My surroundings provide a calm physical and mental space that allow me to relax, contemplate, and focus on the important details of my life: the great outdoors, the company of my dog, the beauty of making pots on a daily basis. I hope my pots also offer their users an opportunity to recognize the important things in their own lives, as quiet pots initially speak softly yet reveal complexity in both form and surface through continued investigation and use.
—Tara Wilson
Tara Wilson is a studio artist living in Montana City, Montana. She has given lectures and workshops throughout the United States and her wood-fired utilitarian work has been exhibited internationally. When not working in the studio she can be often be found in the south hills on her mountain bike. Wilson set up her studio in Montana City after finishing residencies at The Archie Bray Foundation and Red Lodge Clay Center. She currently has a train and a catenary arch wood fire kiln, a Heinz 57 beauty, a very needy mouser, as well as a few chookies.