Witchware is a ceramics line produced from the mind of Chelsea Lipscomb, she is a ceramicist and maker living and working in Helena Mt. Chelsea is a Montana local and descendant of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai tribes on the Flathead reservation, who was raised in the flathead valley by her mother and father in a small unincorporated town where she was mostly left to herself and her own imagination. Her mother was a Musician and music teacher who always taught her to follow her dreams and her Father worked for the tribal government as a wildlife biologist then later as the head of Shoreline protection department. This all contributed to a childhood filled with animals, plants, a connection to nature and a lot of alone time to imagine and blend these beautiful scenery’s with the stories in her head. Her ceramics are illustrated with a touch of these memories, folklore, whimsy, pattern combined together in multiple layers of surface decoration.

Chelsea Lipscomb graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman Mt, in 2017 with a Bachelors of Fine Art Degree with an emphasis in Ceramics. After she graduated she traveled through out Montana experiencing as much and filling her life with people and stories, and has been making ceramics again since 2024. She now works as a Gallery Manager at the Archie Bray foundation and continues making in her garage studio and expands her learning through The Archie Bray Foundation’s Education center.

She currently lives in Helena Montana with her fiance James Timms & their dog Tanji. They spend their freetime enjoying food, drinks, games of pool and watersports when the Montana weather allows for it.