Community Photographs 2012

Vision North Port Chairman Ken Maturo and Vice Chair Carolann Abramoff were very pleased with graphic artist Sheryl Unwin's winning logo design. Sheryl is pictured in the center behind the new banner, at the Vision North Port January 25 meeting at the Olde World Restaurant.

Glen and Cindy Chizmadia were admiring one of the wheel thrown bowls, as
Professional clay artist and North Port Art Center pottery instructor John Cheer looked on.

Christina Lopez was helping her sister Jaylin Duclet, age 7, form a circle
of flattened clay around a grapefruit to create a bowl, while their mother
Ruby Duclet worked on another.

Lorraine Shaw of Ontario, Canada, Victoria and Leslie Russell, dad Mark, Daniel and Tatyanna Wunschel of North Port were happy to be making bowls to raise money to feed the hungry.

When volunteers completed their "Bowls of Hope" creations for the day they were given the opportunity to try their hand at wheel throwing under NPAC pottery instructor and professional ceramic artist John Cheer's supervision.

Volunteer pottery instructors Bonnie Rodgers and Chris Van Antwerp offer assistance to volunteers from the community Nancy and Bob Knight with their "Bowls of Hope" bowl making.

Jill Luke of Patriot Self Storage had just finished her bowl and was visiting with two of the eight ladies from Talon Bay Arlene Hoxsey, on left, and Kathy Garrity, who have come several times to help make "Bowls of Hope." Jill is a North Port Bowls of Hope on the Green committee member.

Standing, proud grandmother Diana Master brought her four grandchildren
Damon Master, Nick, Amber, and Amanda Desena, who worked alongside NPAC members Mark and Reneé Kleinsorge.

Volunteer instructor Chris van Antwerp, a snowbird from Michigan, demonstrates how to make a smooth coil to form the sides of bowl for Linda Weidemann and Joyce Nikas of Talon Bay.

A pottery instructor at the North Port Art Center and at LaCasa Mobile Home Park Jerry Thompson volunteers his time, along with others, to teach those that come to make "Bowls of Hope" to feed the hungry. Around the table was nine year old Wesley Bell who was at the NPAC for the first time; Kellie Chidester; Jerry showing Carolyn Cruikshank, a camp director from 1963 to 1989, a technique she did not know about; Alex Einmo, who is returning to the Philippines after a 7 month visit in North Port; and Darlene Smith, who is visiting relatives for a month and happily taking art classes at the Center while she is here.