Name: Frank Ettawageshik teaches traditional pottery techniques at Beaver Island Community School, 1987
Start: 1987-04-27
End: 1987-05-01
Location: Beaver Island Community School

Event

Dates: 1987-04-27 – 1987-05-01
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island Community School
Carried out by: Beaver Island Community School
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationheritagecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

During the week of April 27, 1987, Traverse City potter Frank Ettawageshik visited Beaver Island Community School to teach pottery techniques. Students collected local materials, made pots, and fired them in a school-built fire pit.

Evidence limits

The newspaper report does not specify the artist’s institutional affiliation, the complete curriculum, or whether the fired pots survive in a collection.

Sources

“Indian Potter Visits School,” Beaver Beacon, June 1987.
Reports Frank Ettawageshik teaching pottery techniques, high-school students collecting clay, temper, and poplar branches, and students making and firing pots in a school fire pit; the program was supported by the Michigan Council of the Arts. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1987-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 1987, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held seventeen-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the school program.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Frank Ettawageshik teaches traditional pottery techniques at Beaver Island Community School, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-indian-pottery-school-residency-1987/, accessed [date], citing “Indian Potter Visits School,” Beaver Beacon, June 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-04. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeX for “Frank Ettawageshik teaches traditional pottery techniques at Beaver Island Community School, 1987”RIS for “Frank Ettawageshik teaches traditional pottery techniques at Beaver Island Community School, 1987”