Our Teams
AMCAW is run by a team of over 50 volunteers, all metal clay artists who like sharing their talents to promote metal clay as a medium and help other metal clay artists. They are using the business and professional skills they developed outside of their metal clay work to help AMCAW become an organization that advances the medium we all love.
Join the team! It’s fun, rewarding, and you’ll build solid friendships with other metal clay artists across the globe. Take a look at the teams below to find the one where your talents might shine the brightest.

Advanced Studies
Team leader is Lora Hart, supported by Patrice Baker

Communications & Marketing
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

Conference
This energetic team is putting together a magical mix of top-notch instructors, intriguing presentations, and a whole lot of metal clay fun to create SINTER, an international metal clay conference which will launch in 2022. 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 Pam Feindel

Curating for Excellence
This small team is passionate about nurturing the metal clay stars of the future! They work to help all metal clay artists be the best they can be, from polishing the presentation of their work to advancing their artistry. Creating new opportunities where none exist, such as artist challenges and publications, this high-energy team is always looking for ways to help artists advance. If you are an experienced artist who likes encouraging others to push themselves to the next level, this team needs your talent and would love to talk with you!
Team leader is Julia Rai, supported by Robert Dancik

Education
Team leader is Lora Hart, supported by Vanessa Weber

Fundraising
Working to create and develop lasting relationships with sponsors and foundations, this team also looks for creative ways to raise funds to support our programs. If you’re a creative thinker, good at building relationships, adept at writing grant applications, or experienced in sales, you’ll love this enthusiastic, upbeat group which is laying groundwork for our future!
Team leader is Anne Acker, supported by Jan Coussens

Guild Support
Whenever two or three metal clay artists get together, magic happens! This team is all about creating more of this magic through our 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

Member Engagement
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 a people person, think creatively, have a great sense of fun, have customer relationship experience, are a good organizer, or get excited about building relationships and communities, this team will be excited to meet you!
Team leader is Julia Rai, supported by Annemarie Klappe

Website and Technology
Team leader is Sian Hamilton, supported by Wendy McManus
Our Volunteers
Anca Crahmaliuc
Anne Acker
Annemarie Klappe
Barbara Clow
Barbara Rivolta
Brandy Boyd
Bretworth Apthorp
Bronwyn Evans
Caroline Jaccard Krejci
Charlotte Edwards
Cindy Pope
Cindy Silas
Clarese Basile
Corina Gheorghe
Jaime Padilla
Jan Castille
Jan Coussens
Jayne Roth
Julia Rai
Kathy McDonald
Lana Stamper
Laura Roehl
Lora Hart
Louise Collins
Lyle Rayfield
Martha Biggar
Martha Vaughan
Nancy Miller
Pam Feindel
Patrice Baker
Paula McDowell
Robert Dancik
Roni Duke
Stephanie Chavez
Stephanie Zier
Susan Lokaj
Terri Hickey
Vanessa Weber
Wendy McManus
Anca Crahmaliuc
Anne Acker
Annemarie Klappe
Barbara Clow
Barbara Rivolta
Brandy Boyd
Bretworth Apthorp
Bronwyn Evans
Caroline Jaccard Krejci
Charlotte Edwards
Cindy Pope
Cindy Silas
Clarese Basile
Corina Gheorghe
Jaime Padilla
Jan Castille
Jan Coussens
Jayne Roth
Julia Rai
Kathy McDonald
Lana Stamper
Laura Roehl
Lora Hart
Louise Collins
Lyle Rayfield
Martha Biggar
Martha Vaughan
Nancy Miller
Pam Feindel
Patrice Baker
Paula McDowell
Robert Dancik
Roni Duke
Stephanie Chavez
Stephanie Zier
Susan Lokaj
Terri Hickey
Vanessa Weber
Wendy McManus