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Biography
Julia Galloway is an artist and a Regents professor at the University of Montana, Missoula. Julia has exhibited across the United States, Canada, and Asia and her work is included in 24 museum collections including in the collections including the Renwick Gallery, Long Beach Art Museum and American Museum of Ceramic Art. Julia has served on the board of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and Director at Large on the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Julia is dedicated to education and has taught more than two hundred and fifty workshops, demonstrations and lectures. She was awarded a United States Artist Unrestricted Fellowship Grant and named a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Montana. She has received the Individual Arts Award for Arts Montana, was named a lifetime ‘Fellow of the Council’ at NCECA. In addition, Julia was named the 2023 Artist of the Year by the Ceramics Arts Network and Ceramics monthly publication.
Artist Statement
Handmade pottery is naturally rich in ideas and metaphor; pottery seeps into our houses, our kitchens, and enriches our lives. Pottery weaves into our daily lives through use and decorates our living spaces with character and elegance. Pottery is a reflection of our reality, our fantasy and ourselves. Clay is a supportive and demanding medium for the creative journey of making. I am insistent about making things with my hands. The need for beautiful domestic objects and the instinctual drive to create things are tremendous dance partners for idea and desire. Utilitarian pottery supports and represents our intimate rituals of nourishment and celebration. Recently the majority of my pottery is influenced by environmental concerns, bringing attention this this through often representing endangered species on er work. Global as it is the issue of our time.
More information about Julia can be found at: juliagalloway.com
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