Placed Chronicle Interview - April 2024

Placed Chronicle is a document of liminal Montana: a borderland looking ahead at the past, between old ways and new ideas, big skies and small communities, the rooted nomad and the wandering familial. Each month we speak with a local artist, writer, tradesperson, entrepreneur—visionaries for whom somewhere else is here, and we wonder alongside them at where exactly, and how exactly—spatially, temporally—here is placed.

October 2023, Image: Will Warasila

“We are so happy to open our chronicle with ceramicist and artist Maura Wright, who for the past year and a half has been a long-term resident of the Archie Bray Foundation at the foot of the Rockies. Based in Helena, Wright conjures earthenware designs that exemplify what we think of when we think of home: sensual, dreamy, and with a touch of nostalgia for things as they never were. She spoke to us of Montana and mosaics, about finding freedom in clay by learning to un-learn, and about whether the “last best place” will last.”


Architectural Digest - One to Watch: Artist Maura Wright sifts through the history of ceramics to upend conventions of bygone eras


Vogue Mexico - Emerging art and reflection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 - December 9, 2023


Dwell Magazine - These Are the Best Things We Saw at the Miami Fairs This Year - December 2023


Design Miami 2023 with AGO Projects, December 5-10, 2023, Booth C05


May 2023 - Jane Hartsook Press Release for Midwest Sweat


Feature in Sight Unseen’s April 17, 2023 Newsletter