Past Recipients of the NMPCA Bill Armstrong Grant
2011

3 organizations received awards in 2011

Tarnoff Art Center, Rowe, New Mexico for the purchase of a potter's wheel

Off Center Community Arts Project, Albuquerque, New Mexico for a handbuilt clay class

Manzano Mountain Arts Council, Mountainair, New Mexico for a handbuilding class

 

 

 

           Off Center Class

2010

In 2010, no organizations applied for the Armstrong Grant.  Instead, the organization sponsored two attendees to the NCECA Symposium on Critical Ceramics in the fall of 2010.  One student and one adult were chosen from applications for the scholarships.
2009
2009 Grant Recipients were

Placitas community mural project entitled “Protect Our Wildlife Corridors” by Pathways for assistance with a large ceramic wildlife mural

McCurdy School Art Department, and School for ceramic art supplies and equipment for their art studio

Potters’ Guild of Las Cruces for a workshop.
2008

The 2008 Bill Armstrong Grant was awarded to Ghost Ranch for improvements to the ceramic workshop space. This grant was used to create a level flooring surface in the Pot Hollow work area. Read about the NMPCA campaign to improve Pot Hollow in the March, 2008 Slip Trail.

2007
The 2007 Bill Armstrong Grant was awarded to The Camino de Paz Farm School, which is a small Montessori school program for grades 7-12 located outside of Espanola, New Mexico. The school was awarded $500 to hold a six-week (once a week) micaceous pottery workshop that was taught by local artist/potter Camilla Trujillo. Workshops by local artists are valued as an integral part of their education. They could not have afforded the micaceous clay workshop with Camilla Trujillo without the assistance of the NMPCA Grant.

2006

Access Art Studio at The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos

This program provides free, ongoing weekly classes in the clay arts for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. The classes were started in Feb. ’04 and have been very successful. Currently (in ’05/’06) serves 28 students. A core group of 8-10 consistently attend, with others joining intermittently. The program hopes to expand to include surrounding high school students from Espanola and other communities. This type of activity has been shown to be extremely beneficial to those with developmental disabilities.

Deborah Brink, teacher and program manager sent us the pictures below
Access Arts, Student work Access Arts Program, Deborah Brink and Students
2005:  Pojoaque Boys and Girls Club for purchase of 2 wheels. NMPCA coordinated purchase, receiving a special price on two new wheels. Below is the thank you note signed by the children.

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