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2005 ISLAND TREASURE AWARDS RECIPIENTS
ABOUT JENNY ANDERSEN
Ceramic artist and arts educator Jenny Andersen
is a Seattle native who has had a long involvement with the arts,
first in drawing and painting and then, after taking classes with
noted ceramic artist Patti Warishina, she focused her creative life
on clay. Teaching has been an important part of her career, and
she taught at the Bainbridge Park District for many years and served
as an artist-in-residence in local schools. For the last three years,
she has coordinated the annual “Empty Bowls Project,”
working with Helpline House and school children to create ceramic
bowls, as a reminder that there are always empty bowls in the world,
while learning how to fight hunger. Jenny has worked primarily with
raku, pit-firing, bonfiring, and other “primitive” firing
techniques. Her work has been exhibited in individual, two-person
and group shows throughout the northwest since 1989. She participated
in her first “anagama” firing at the Santatsugama Kiln
in Seabeck in 1999, and since then has been “consumed by high
temperature wood firing.” Inspiration for her work comes largely
from an interest in historical art, especially the ritual bronzes
and ceramics of Asia.
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ABOUT DR. DAVID C. KORTEN
Writer and philosopher Dr. David C. Korten is
an internationally known leader on issues of democracy. His varied
experience includes a stint as a Harvard Business School professor,
assignments with the Harvard Institute for International Development,
the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
He has lived in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Indonesia, and the Philippines,
facilitating the transformation of public agencies into responsive
support systems dedicated to strengthening community control of
natural resources. He has also worked with civil society organizations
in an effort to build their capacity to function as strategic catalysts
of change. He wrote When Corporations Rule the World to examine
the economic policies that have deepened a global crisis. Realizing
that what was needed was to advance alternative policies and strategies
that could take the world in a more positive direction, in 1996
he joined with other colleagues — mostly Bainbridge residents
— to found the Positive Futures Network (PFN) and YES! magazine.
In 1998, he completed writing The Post-Corporate World: Life after
Capitalism. He is now writing, Beyond Empire: The Step to Earth
Community, examining the transition from a 5,000-year Era of Empire
to a new Era of Earth Community struggling to be born.
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