2007 Grant Recipient: 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 Grant Recipient: NMPCA is proud to announce the award of the 2006 Bill Armstrong Grant to 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

The 2005 Grant Recipient: 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 received signed by the children.