Cultivating Community Creativity:
The Bisque-ward Project

The Gloria Morello Bisque-ware Project (GMBP) was a traveling art workshop designed to give individuals with limited mobility and/or income a free fun, creative, and educational experience. CAW Center for the Arts, now known as Community Artists Gallery & Studios, provided participants with instructors, free materials, student grade acrylic paints, and loaned painting tools. The GMBP has benefited more than 70 seniors in group homes—HomePlace, Good Shepherd Home for the Aged, Croatan Village Assisted Living Community, and McCarthy Court. It also offered three classes for 58 students at H.J. MacDonald Middle School.

The GMB was made possible by the Harold H. Bate Foundation, as well as the generous donation of $40,000 worth of Bisque-ware (pre-glazed pottery) from the late Gloria Morello.