{"id":3030,"date":"2019-07-18T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T02:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clay-wood.com\/?page_id=3030"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:01:58","slug":"services-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clay-wood.com\/?page_id=3030","title":{"rendered":"Past Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Past Workshops: The Pleasure of Making<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1574278403344{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087722854{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1767109650201{margin-top: 0px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"With grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, involving its Life Long Arts program, we were able to offer workshops in several cities in central and southern Indiana associated with public libraries and art centers. Our projects included: Miniatures, Story Telling Pottery and Tell Your Garden’s Story. The program and schedule for each workshop is described here.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087919373{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”” el_id=”UPTC”]Life Long Arts Indiana<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023 – Continuing
\nNorth Manchester, Brownstown,
\nLawrence, Munice
\nIndiana Arts Commission Grant[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1574278403344{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087722854{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1767110355974{margin-top: 0px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"Understanding Pokagon Through Clay (UPTC) offered a space to interpret Pokagon State Park through clay with six monthly thematic workshops, May through November. Workshops involving plants, animals, landscape and American Indian heritage were lead by three artists, Shirley Brauker (Moon Bear Pottery<\/a>) (Odawa<\/a>) and Tammeron Francis and Anna Popova (ClayWood studio).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087919373{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]Understanding Pokagon Through Clay<\/strong><\/p>\n

May – October 2019
\nPokagon State Park
\nIndiana Arts Commission Grant<\/p>\n

2020 – Pokagon Clay Workshop
\n(Awarded but canceled due to\u00a0<\/span>
\nPandemic)<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1767110493944{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"In 2017, Anna had the privilege to be among the first three instructors at the newly opened craft studios of Velingrad History Museum<\/a>. The craft studios are part of the will of Mrs Tsveta Shumanova, an artist and craft woman from Anna\u2019s home town who has lived in Massachusets. In the end of her life, she returned to Bulgaria in 1985 and donated her\u00a0 works, tools, and looms to the local community. Anna\u2019s classes sparked great interest of kids age 3 to 15. From July 3 to 9, 2017 as part of Velingrad Cultural Festival, the Municipality organized summer open craft schools on the street. More than 50 kids experienced creative expression through clay.<\/p>\n

Younger children used stamps and cutout presses while older children were taught basic hand building technique. Anna gave specific instruction on how clay should be treated to survive drying, firing and how clay should be treated so as to maintain its shape. Projects included construction of small houses, animals and work of the child’s choice. In addition, Anna trained 4 teachers from the School for Children with Special Needs and helped them write a grant proposal for a pottery studio in the school.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087968529{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”” el_id=”velingrad-history-museum”]Anna’s classes in Bulgaria
\n<\/strong>History Museum, Velingrad
\n<\/strong>Summer 2017[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1574278403344{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087722854{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1581270066884{margin-top: 0px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"Drawing on the Seasons of Pokagon <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>introduced park attendees to the patient process of seeing and thinking about place and wilderness through en plein air sketching. Three illustrated half hour lectures were delivered on drawing process. A final workshop was given in which drawings that best described features of Pokagon State Park were discussed as well as a short discussion of why drawing from life and en plein air is important. Workshop attendees used vine charcoal and large sheets of newsprint with which to draw. Workshops began with a handout on what to think about when drawing en plein air. After all drawing materials were handed out including drawing boards and clips Tammeron visited each drawing participant to discuss work. This project included in its grant money park entry fee scholarships.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087919373{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”” el_id=”DOTSOP”]Drawing on the Seasons of Pokagon<\/strong><\/p>\n

May – November 2016 and 2017
\nPokagon State Park
\nIndiana Arts Commission Grant
\n(Both Years)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1645722118395{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"Refugee Project<\/a>. Sofia Bulgaria.<\/strong> 2016 and 2017. Tammeron Francis and Anna Popova volunteered at the Voenna Rampa<\/em><\/a> refugee camp in Sofia offering art workshops for children. Intending support the teaching of Bulgarian and English language the workshops used Bulgarian folk tales to support play as well as language learning. The first workshop involved an illustrated telling of the Bulgarian tale Grandpa’s Glove. Children completed the story with their drawings and clay figures. The following year art workshops for children were more directly related to basic language learning using drawing, clay-work and basic vocabulary. Participating refugees were from Syria and Sub-Saharan
\nAfrica.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1574087968529{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”” el_id=”refugee-project”]Refugee Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winters 2016 an 2017
\nSofia Bulgaria
\nVoenna Rampa<\/em> Refugee Camp[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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