Our Teams

Do you have a passion for helping others learn? Or like to create or manage educational programs? Then the Advanced Studies team needs you! All about supporting advancement in metal clay, this team develops programs which challenge makers of all levels to strive for more, improve their skills, and tune into and develop their creative voice. They find ways to encourage both novice and experienced educators fine-tune their knowledge of metal clay, refine all aspects of their teaching methods, and learn to make an impactful presentation to their students. Let’s find ways together to make metal clay a go-to medium in the metals world!

Team leader is Lora Hart, supported by Patrice Baker

This buzzing group creates the fun, engaging communications which connect the community to AMCAW and involve both members and the general public in our events and activities. If you like to design graphics, create conversations on social media, write or edit work about interesting metal clay activities, generate wildly creative marketing ideas, produce videos, or craft communication/marketing plans, this team is for you!

Team leader is Martha Vaughan, supported by Sue Lokaj

Working in metal clay is a continual learning journey, and helping all skill levels along that journey with educational support is one of our top priorities. This team creates valuable online articles, videos, and other resources which tap into their collective years of experience and experimentation to deliver well-researched and experience-based educational content which is helpful to everyone working with metal clay. If you’re passionate about helping others learn, can write or edit metal clay articles, or have experience with video production, this is your sweet spot!

Team leader is Brandy Boyd, supported by Loretta Hackman

Do numbers tell you a story? You might just love working with the Finance and Risk team, which oversees the financial performance of AMCAW to ensure our mission and operations budget are well aligned. The team monitors the current and future financial health of AMCAW, creates and reviews budgets and develops and supports financial policies and procedures. If you love numbers and analysis, this team might be a great fit.

Team leader is Wendy Ernst, supported by Anne Acker

The Grants & Awards team’s mission is to promote the growth of the international metal clay community by providing grant opportunities to metal clay artists, entrepreneurs and inventors that assist in educating, inspiring and moving the metal clay community forward. If you’d like to be a part of helping to nurture budding efforts which can have a big impact, this might be the team for you.

Team leader is Pam Feindel, supported by Cindy Pope

Whenever two or three metal clay artists get together, magic happens! This team is all about creating more of this magic through our Community Guild Resources and the Virtual Guild, which connects artists across the globe in online meetings featuring experts, top artists, and trending topics in metal clay. If you’re a people person, good at organizing, a responsive communicator, or gifted at identifying new trends/techniques/ products which metal clay artists should know about, you’ll shine on this passionate team!

Team leader is Bronwyn Evans, supported by Stephanie Chavez

The Lis-el Crowley Vision Award (LCVA) team shepherds the process of honoring a deserving member of our metal clay community each year. The LCVA was created to honor and sustain the enduring legacy of AMCAW’s co-founder, Lis-el Crowley. The community is asked to nominate people who embody Lis-el’s contributions, and an anonymous jury is recruited each year to select the winner. Interested in being a part of this prestigious annual event? Learn more about the LCVA here.

Team leader is Wendy McManus, supported by Terri Hickey

Members are the center of our universe! This team focuses on some of our most important questions: How can AMCAW meet the needs of metal clay artists like you? What are the benefits you want from AMCAW which would make your membership an absolute must-have year after year, and compel you to tell your friends, “you’ve gotta be part of this!’” If you’re passionate about metal clay, have a great sense of fun, are very active on social media and love interacting and sharing metal clay related stuff, this team will be excited to meet you!

Team leader is Julia Rai, supported by Annemarie Klappe

Our members love learning. This team is responsible for producing a bi-annual virtual event, filled with workshops, presentations, and metal clay fun.  This Zoom event will be held online to connect you to your metal clay community.  If you like organize events, work with instructors and presenters, feel really comfortable in the virtual world, or have financial, marketing, computer or sponsorship skills, this team could be your dream

Team leader is Wendy Ernst, supported by Barbara Clow

What’s more fun than getting together with several hundred fellow metal clay fans? Planning all the fun! SINTER is AMCAW’s in-person learning event, held every other year, where you can meet up with your tribe, learn, laugh, and mix and mingle with today’s top artists! If you like to organize events, work with instructors and presenters, create a welcoming and fun event environment, or calmly manage the gazillion details of a large live event, you need to join this team! 

Team leader is Julia Rai, supported by Paula McDowell

A global community is an online community, and this team keeps us connected worldwide. Our web team develops and runs our website, creatively designing and organizing webpages to create the welcoming, engaging face of AMCAW online. If you understand InDesign, can edit and resize photos, speak SEOs, edit videos, or create pages with ease, please text, email or otherwise digitally contact this team asap.

Team leader is Sian Hamilton, supported by Paula McDowell.