[Clayart] apprenticeship
Barry Salaberry via Clayart
stumbled upon the Red Mason.
He is Dr. Gerard Lynch, whose career is centered on the development of
apprenticeship training in masonry. His website, www.theredmason.co.uk
recently sent me an update on tool availability. I feel it would be
selfish of me to not share his comments provided at that site:
From Apprentice To Master Artisan
Updated: Mar 6, 2021
Radical change is necessary for current craft education and training. We
must invest quality time, energy, and money into well-designed craft
education and training, studying and respecting both past and modern
aspects, and encourage self-belief in our future craftspeople—for we are no
less able today than historic craftsmen of producing the masterpieces we
marvel at today. Only by demanding quality apprenticeships and learning
environments that develop an ethos clearly seen to be producing superb
craftspeople, employed in an industry that promotes quality of work and
service, can we ask others to also place value on our once-noble crafts.
Those of us fortunate to have had all-embracing time-served craft
apprenticeships, and to have worked alongside and learned from older
craftsmen possessing traditional skills and knowledge, are now around 50
years of age plus. When we, and particularly the master craftsmen, are
gone, that historic craft link will be forever broken.
One ignores a craft’s history, knowledge, and skills at one’s peril,
perhaps best summed up by this old Chinese proverb:
If a man dwells on the past then he robs the present. But if a man ignores
the past then he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured
by the roots of the past.
I hope this can be a thought provoking perspective for all of us working In
clay today.
Barry
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Barry Salaberry
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings tunes without the words
And never stops - at all!"
-Emily Dickinson
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