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Ahmad Q. Gazal has been making pottery and teaching pottery and ceramic arts, for over 25 years.
He has taught pottery in schools, youth centers and in his studio.
He has taught wheel throwing and hand building to nearly 500 children each summer for seven years at a New England International Camp.
His studio Rainmaker Pottery was open for 12 years in historical Northeast Georgia off route 441 known for legendary names in American pottery.
He traveled to Mali, " Timbuktu",Dakar Senegal, Malaysia, Pakistan , Arabia, Gambia, Iznik ,Turkey , Fez and Safi Morocco with visits to ceramic centers in each country.
He studied coiling and traditional pit firing techniques with the master women potters in a village in Thidaye Senegal West Africa.
Before departing West africa Ahmad also initated and facilitated building a small school project.
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A day in the clay. Youth with visual disabilities
Ceramic class with low vision to no vision
Rainmaker ahmad Qadri on the wheel
centering and raising the clay on the wheel
Rainmaker pottery Artist Creative Expression A.C.E
Montage of Ahmad Qadri ceramic works and travels
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1998
Institution/Business Type:
Artist / Creative (Individual)
Legal Status:
Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1998
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Visual/Crafts - CeramicsAdditional Disciplines:
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In teaching ceramic arts, I adapt my teaching and project so that student can enjoy the medium and still educate them about symmetry.
Future In Sight
Date: 02/2018-02/2018
Did resdency and pottery demonstration with youth with no vision or low vision at Futrue In Sight of New Hampshire. This was two session. One class with youth and the other with adults. Focused on pinch potting and letting them follow my hands as i throw vases on the potters wheel.
Teaching Innovation and Creativity
Date: 11/2017-11/2017
In 2017 ahmad attened the Teaching Innovation and Creativty workshop in Littleton NH. Sponsotred by the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts. He held a ceramic techniques workshop for teachers. Demonstrating ceramic handbuilding techniques and methods for children with and without disablities //allevents.in/littleton/teaching-innovation-and-creativity/2156941107683989
Windsor mountain International Camp
Date: 06/2012-06/2018
Director of the full Ceramic and pottery program and internatioanl summer camp in Windsor New Hampshire. Teaching wheel thorwing, Raku, pit firing and creative hand builing to more than 400 children by summers end.
IqraBa Academy Senegal West Africa
Date: 11/2011-11/2014
Ahmad taught English, poetry, videography and Ceramic arts in Dakar Senegal. He engaged his students in experiential learning and feild trips to Goree Island. Recite and video taping the performance. Ahmad class produced video projects at the Door of No Return. Also Ahmad interveiw Minister of the Senegalese and former professor of African and French literature on the Historical significance of the Door. Youth recited poetry in front of the Door of no Return, within the Mansion Esclave. ( House of the Slaves). This was as a tribute to the ancestors and people who died in the transatlantic slave trade. With the school and staff field trips to the potter in the village of Thidaye in Senegal West Africa. There the student were expose to seven women potters. They engaged in learning the primitive methods of coiling and pit firing. The method used by the ladies dates back more that 500 years.
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$500 - $5,000Teaching Settings:
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