Tag: #CeramicSculpture

Logo, News from Neem Fdn, Website update

The Chibok Project got a logo in December designed by Bill Wurtzel.  Thank you Bill!

BIG NEWS The Neem Foundation, having received your donations of $15,000 in December delivered services to over 600  participants in Expressive Therapy Techniques, including Art, Dance, Theatre, and Music in two communities identified as being in precarious need of mental health services to adults, adolescents, and children.  We are so proud to have partnered with Neem Foundation.  If you look at their website https://neemfoundation.org.ng/ and other partnerships, you will see that they have been providing exactly these services to the communities witnessing the massive influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and horrors of the insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria.

Children of Simari Jere Community who have witnessed extreme traumatic experiences work with skilled art therapists processing their fears, bonding, and finding new hope.

We hope you will take some time to look over the 276 sculptures that have now been photographed and posted on the sculpture page of The Chibok Project website.  All proceeds (excluding shipping) from each one of these sculptures, numbered inside, and in the photograph will go to benefit the work of the Neem Foundation in Northeastern Nigeria expressly supporting healing through art therapies in safe spaces.

Thank you for supporting The Chibok Project and for your encouragement and trust through the years.  With so much love, and in solidarity, Angela

2 day Film shoot in New Haven

100 girls in a white box room with enormous ceilings allowed Brittany Bland, MFA Projection Designer, Yale, with Barb Korein’s help to create effects on the girls and in the space using the images of the kidnapped girls on their bodies and creating powerful resulting shadows.

I want the film to tell the story of the kidnapping; that violence against women and children is a global phenomenon with up to 1 billion children between the ages of 2-17 experiencing violence in the past year; and that as a teacher of young children, the girls felt like my own students, but it is my own first hand experiences with trauma and violence that finally I understood was the source of my empathy for the girls.

First 24 Girls Successfully Once-Fired in Callicoon Center, NY

The 4th of July was filled with family activities and no studio time. I marinated chicken and pork, made Brunswick stew and coleslaw, roasted broccoli and potatoes, baked peanut butter brownies, a fruit galette, and a coconut cake. After everyone left I laid down with a fever and slept for 4 days. Then I went back to the studio and carefully loaded my girls into the old cone-firing Skutt. I still managed to bump a foot in haste and couldn’t paper clay it back on successfully. Still, the girls came out looking great. My last batch of the Laguna #391 and the first of the new Laguna #80. So happy with this new clay body. As creamy as the last batch and the color is very beautiful. I had terrible and frightening dreams the night of the firing of the girls blowing up in the kiln, their faces cracking. I kept waking up. What a joy to open the kiln and find this photo!! Thank you, kiln gods. Thank you, Mama. Thank you, Jill. Thank you, Sana. Thank you, Olivia. Thank you, Marina.