Red Lodge Clay Center – Long-Term Resident 2025-2026
Breana Ferreira (she/her) was born and raised in Southern California and received her BFA in Ceramics in the Spring of 2022 from the University of North Texas. Her process integrates traditional ceramic practices with the two-dimensional arts to develop personal and cultural narrative through sculpted still-lifes and utilitarian forms.
She has worked as an educator and Resident Artist in association with a variety of arts organizations and crafts schools within the United States and was recently selected as one of Ceramic Monthly’s 2026 Emerging Artists. Breana is currently making and working amongst the Beartooth Mountains of Red Lodge, MT as Programs Coordinator at Red Lodge Clay Center.
Breana’s practice fixates on ceramics as active participants in routine and ritual, as conduits for introspection, and as vessels for personal and cultural narrative. She reflects most on the intimacy of utilitarian objects, the crooked charm of the hand-built form, and the preservation of perfect imperfection where the hand disrupts and distorts.
Through the celebratory practice of adornment, Breana embraces maximalist tendencies indulging in rich layers of texture, color, and imagery, utilizing pattern, print, and iconography in dialogue with form. Sculpted still-life and vessel alike, her objects embody personal reflections on memory, identity, and space influenced most by her multicultural roots and the landscapes she calls home.