Karl Schwiesow is an artist and educator working in a spectrum of media. His most recent investment in ceramic led him to a Long-Term Artist in Residence at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana from 2018 to 2019.  Then, in 2017 he was the Ceramic Artist in residence at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma California, after which he was a Summer Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena Montana. His studio practice is focused on the abstraction of all forms of sculpture combined with painting, found sports objects and various industrial and domestic materials. His work has been exhibited or collected by the Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery, in Red lodge Montana; The Archie Bray Foundation’s North Gallery, in Helena; the Sonoma Community Center, in Sonoma, California; The Montana Museum of Art and Culture; as well as various private collections. Karl holds a BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from Sierra Nevada College and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. ​ He maintains passions in art through his visual and sculptural practice as well as through teaching. Karl currently lives and works from Ellensburg Washington and Dillon Montana.