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ADOPT A
POTTER TRUST
Applications Guidance
The Trust is
inviting applications from students seeking funding of £80.00 per week
for one year to enable them to apprentice with an established,
practicing potter. Initially, funding is limited to applications from
both apprentices and potters within the UK. (We are hoping to extend
this to overseas applications in the near future.)
Adopt a Potter
Trust was set up to help secure the future of studio pottery by funding
apprenticeships, thus enabling students to work alongside a master
potter. It is hoped that an apprentice will learn and develop some of
the necessary skills required to establish their own career and
business.
We realise that
one year is a relatively short period of time; however, with the
current funds available, the Trust will only be offering one-year
apprenticeship in the first instance.
We therefore feel it is important to emphasise that we require a high
degree of commitment and competence from applicants in order that they
make a realistic contribution in their new position. It is hoped that
both the apprentice and the host potter will benefit from the
arrangement, but it is the apprentice who should gain most from this
focused experience. Much of what you will learn may not be directly
taught, but will be learnt by example and observation of good practices
from a professional potter.
The Trust feels
that a more mutually successful placement will result if students
approach potters whose work they admire and form an agreement between
them to apply to the scheme.
Before
approaching your chosen potter, consider what you can offer...
- Help with day to day workshop
chores; e.g. glaze mixing, kiln packing, clay preparation, cleaning and
help with packing for exhibitions and shows, dealing with customers
- Help with the production of the
potter's standard range
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Help with the sales at shows and
exhibitions
Things you will
need to ask when approaching your potter for an apprenticeship...
- Whether or not any accommodation
will be available, and if any contribution is required. If not, the
availability of inexpensive accommodation locally if your home is too
far away to make travel each day realistic.
- Whether or not it would be
possible to have access to the workshop to make your own work after the
working day.
- Whether or not you might be able
to make part of the potter's standard range of pots.
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Any other benefits in kind, i.e.
materials, subsistence when away at exhibitions etc.
If you need any
guidance regarding the apprenticeship in general, you can email Yo Thom.
Please mark (as subject) ADOPT A POTTER ENQUIRY when you email.
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