Julia Galloway ::: Utilitarian Pottery

Julia Galloway is a potter with an active studio practice and a professor of ceramics at the University of Montana, Missoula. Julia has exhibited across the United States, Canada, and Asia and her work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery – Washington DC, Long Beach Art Museum – Long Beach CA, the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art – Pomona, CA, and Alfred Ceramics Art Museum in New York. She was recently awarded a United States Artist Grant and named a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Montana. Julia has served on the board of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, as well as a Director at Large on the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Julia is dedicated to education, whether on a traditional college campus, a crafts school or local arts center; she has taught more than two hundred and fifty workshops, demonstrations and lectures. In addition, she has developed and maintains service based educational websites: ‘Montana Clay’, “Field Guide for Ceramic Artisans”, ‘Library of Cups – website for critiquing’, ‘Random Acts of Clay’ and ‘Making History’. Julia was named the 2023 Artist of the Year by the Ceramics Arts Network and Ceramics monthly publication