We're building a woodcarving school in the Peruvian Amazon! 
I learned an ancient woodworking technique in the Amazon Rainforest that radically transformed my life and it can do the same for others. You can read that story Here
This technique and others I've perfected over the years eliminate perhaps 90% of a woodcarver's labor. Since carvings may be produced ten times faster, a carver can earn ten times more money. Speed also allows students to get very good at it very quickly. Even a simple bowl created with these techniques will be stunningly beautiful.
I've returned to Peru several times with suitcases full of tools and set up workshops. While the traditional craft forms there are truly amazing, they are also extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, so what I have to teach is always very well-received. Even the very young or the very old can make a great hourly wage with my techniques.
We're now gearing up for another trip, this time to the healing center of a master healer of the Shipibo people, Maestra Estele Pangoza. Her center is Aya Madre and you can read all about her amazing journey Here
At Aya Madre we will build a woodcarver's school and install a solar panel array to power the tools we bring, retiring the polluting and expensive-to-run diesel generator. Excess current produced by the new solar panels may be used for lights, charging stations, and refrigeration at the village next door to Aya Madre, which is a serious quality-of-life improvement for a whole bunch of people. Maestra Estele employs many of the villagers.
Estele's younger brother and apprentice, Roldan, is also a student of mine and will teach at the school.
In order to support and advertise the school's products, a documentary film will be created by Stiner Bros.
This will help us grow online platforms to facilitate sales and shipping of the artwork produced.
For all those who have received priceless gifts of healing from the peoples of the Amazon, this is a great way to reciprocate, because if the plants tell us anything, it is that reciprocation is everything. Imho, the best way to save the rainforest is to enrich and empower its ancestral stewards.
Donations of $1,000 or more will receive a sacred pipe carved from ancient wood.
Top donors of $5,000 or more are invited to join us on this amazing trip!
$10,000 or more secures an Executive Producer documentary credit and I will carve an amazing piece just for you.
To recap, our funding goal covers:
- workshop build-out materials and labor
- carving tools and equipment
- solar panel array and installation
- a documentary film
- crew travel expenses
Gracias y bendiciones 🙏
Chris Isner @isnerart
isnervision@hotmail.com
