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Everyone Deserves an Ark
Clayworks’ Forest Park Satellite Studio participants and artist Bill Stewart
2006
With Support from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore Clayworks hosted artist Bill Stewart of New York from mid-October to mid-November of 2007. He led hands-on activities out of Clayworks’ satellite studio, which had just moved from the Mondawmin Mall to the Forest Park Senior Center. At the Forest Park studio, he worked with 29 participants from Clayworks’ “Continuing Clay” and “Beginning Clay” senior adult classes made up of mostly senior adult women. He also worked with 22 young people in Clayworks’ A-Teams program which serves middle and high school youth. Stewart had never worked with either population. The community-based project he engaged the senior adult women and youth in was entitled “Everyone Deserves an Ark." Students created clay animals using basic and more advanced hand building techniques. In addition to creating an animal, or set of animals, the students created a simple boat form for the animals to stand or sit on. The animal boats would then all be arranged on a platform in the shape of a large boat or ark. The ark with all of the individual boats with animals went on display at the Visitors Center in Baltimore’s inner harbor in February of 2007.
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