Artist Apprenticeship Ceramics

It offers sustained firsthand participation in an artist s life and work.

Artist apprenticeship ceramics. We produce a full line of cone 10 high fire stoneware as well as special orders and one of a kind pieces by the artist that work at whitefish pottery 7 employees. Some of the many apprenticeship opportunities you will find on our platform include art apprenticeships and photography apprenticeships. The zakin apprenticeship program honors the spirit and practice of inquiry and learning of daily and wholly living a creative life working and living within a community of makers. The life of the working artist extends beyond the studio and into the community so it is important for the young artist to become acquainted with the economic social and community factors that affect ones work.

There is also a full and part time person in our downtown store gallery. I think it was only blind faith luck and persistence that enabled me able to establish my studio and career. There is currently over 2750 and growing opportunities listed on artsparkr. We have a full time studio manager full time production potter and a full time glaze person at the studio.

The convergence of a long time interest in the value of domesticity cooking and craft process began a love for exploring the subtleties of clay as a functional medium. He graduated from cambridge built a kiln in herefordshire and later obtained a daiwa anglo japanese foundation scholarship that gave him the opportunity to study ceramics in japan. Interns are exposed to the choices that i must make as an artist on a daily basis and are involved with the outcome of those choices. The apprentice helps me run my gallery dig and process clays mix glazes maintain my website and help fire my kilns.

Apprenticeship is studio based hands on learning that offers entry into a community of practice through the transmission of deep skills. The apprenticeship is an opportunity to learn how to sustain a lifestyle in ceramics. Bad and ugly of an artist making a living producing work. And i have worked a lot this winter writing about ceramics.

Greta is a potter from new england. It s intensive hands on immersion is unique among educational formats. It s been interesting to think about what the apprentice s role should be through. We re currently in beta so your feedback and patience is important to us.

At 17 he deferred his entry into the university of cambridge for an apprenticeship with potter geoffrey whiting making hundreds of pots during this time.