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    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Knight Foundation; Artisans; Crafts; Business development

    • This Volunteer teaches industrial arts at Jennings Secondary School in Antigua. He will complete his third year of Peace Corps service in May, 1976. He teaches shop four days a week and Spanish three days a week.
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    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Knight Foundation; Artisans; Crafts; Business development

    • This Volunteer teaches industrial arts at Jennings Secondary School in Antigua. He will complete his third year of Peace Corps service in May, 1976. He teaches shop four days a week and Spanish three days a week.
    • Agency Photos
    • Siapo Artisan

    • Siapo Artisan

    • Artisans; Host community; Traditional dress

    • Siapo (or tapa) is a cloth made from the bark of mulberry trees and painted in traditional Samoan motifs. This artisan had just completed this custom siapo for Peace Corps Volunteer Erik Martin to commemorate the completion of his service....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Muñecas

    • Muñecas

    • artisans; crafts

    • Muñecas are colorful cloth dolls made and sold by indigenous Mexican women in a style traditional before the conquest of Mexico by Spain.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mohammed with Clients

    • Mohammed with Clients

    • Art; Artisans

    • Mohammed Essabi (center) with me (right) and clients who were traveling from America. This was taken at the home of the rais of Tamesloht, who was Essabi's first patron. This was the first sale of Essabi's work.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • Artisans; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during one of my visits to a silk weaving group in my community. I was located in a subdistrict of 13 villages. Almost every house in every village had a weaving loom -all day you would hear the wood hitting the loom to make the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • artisans; elders; host families

    • This is a photo of my host mother during Pre-Service Training from March 3, 2010 in Matshipe, South Africa. A Sotho mother of eight, she loved to spend the hot South African summers laying on her woven straw mats underneath the shade. One...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Talitali

    • Talitali

    • artisans

    • In this photo, I am weaving (talitali) a mat with two friends, Serema and Kata. We are weaving in their home in Natuvu Village, Fiji. The photo was taken in 2010. The mats are made out of a plant called 'voivoi' that the women grow and process...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Artisans

    • The process to make Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by the women of all ages, has many steps and takes several weeks. Hand-dying the thread is done outside in big buckets year-round since corte is made daily here in San Andres Xecul,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning the Trade

    • Learning the Trade

    • Camps and clubs; Artisans

    • In this photo, taken on July 29th, 2010, at a GLOW camp in Mohammedia, Morocco, the facilitator is leading a natural dye workshop for the camp participants, showing them how wool can be colored using natural products in the environment. Using...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Artisans; Host community; Traditional dress

    • Zoya works in a small room just off the shortcut I take into town every day. She says she learned how to sew when she was 17 at classes she took at the cultural house in Yeghegnadzor over 30 years ago. She along with her soviet era sewing machine...
    • Volunteer Photos

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