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In search of a career, George Kurjanowicz nearly became a teacher. Choosing production and design of sculpture as a vocation, he never abandoned his desire to make education a major component of his professional activities.
George's first teaching opportunity arose in the winter of 1998 when Josh Farrington came in search of a mentor. Since that first apprenticeship, four more novice carvers have received their training at Kurjanowicz Studio. Four of those teaching session were funded by the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont. For more information regarding this program, please contact George personally.
George has also been afforded the opportunity to teach in statewide educational programs, working as the carving instructor at the 2003 and 2004 Vermont Governor's Institutes on the Arts. He is also currently on the faculty at the Studio Place Arts in Barre, Vermont, teaching stone carving with hand tools. The Vermont Granite Museum of Barre has also engaged George as an instructor in its Stone Arts School, where he teaches the introductory course in pneumatic tools.
The studio also offers individual instructional sessions for both beginners and advanced sculptors seeking guidance in their own stone projects.
Josh Farrington was George's first apprentice, completing his training in the spring of 1998.
Hired in October 2000, He was a studio sculptor until the summer of 2005.
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Heather Milne began her apprentice training in the summer of 1999, becoming a permanent studio member in October of that year. |
| Alan Frascoia trained with George in the fall of 2000. He later worked as a studio sculptor from February 2001 until the summer of 2003. |
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While he has not become a permanent member of the studio, Gampo Wickenheiser did train with George in the summer of 2001 and is now working as a sculptor in Barre. |
| Dave Bloom is shown carving a piece of Barre Gray granite during the Intro to Pneumatic Tools Class George taught in April 2004. |
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George once again taught carving at the 2004 Governor's Institute on the Arts. Pictured is his morning class. |
| Andrew Dernavich, here shown finishing his soapstone carving, was one of George's students at the 2003 Governor's Institute for the Arts. |
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Mary Alcantara began her marble project in Kurjanowicz Studio in September 2003. |
| Chris Leary began a Traditional Arts apprenticeship in September 2003. He is shown executing a carving of his own design. Chris became a permanent studio sculptor in September 2005. |
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Georgia Landau was one of George's students at the Studio Place Arts course he taught in the fall of 2003. |
| Shown here with a fish she carved from Brazilian soapstone, Mahli Brister was one of George's students at the 2005 Governor's Institute on the Arts. |
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One of George's 2004 Governor's Institute students, Rachel Pelham began a marble mentoring project in August of 2005. |
| Sophie Bettman-Kerson trained with George in the fall of 2005. She too was an apprenticeship grant recipient from the Vermont Folklife Center. |
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