{"id":708,"date":"2010-06-18T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T03:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-06-18T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T03:19:34","slug":"being-crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"being crafty"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Byrne – yeah, him of Talking Heads fame, amongst other things<\/a> – has weighed into the craft-art debate in his latest journal post<\/a>. He has an interesting perspective, relating the debate to music, of course, and photography.<\/p>\n

Now to spoil the very end of the post; his suggestion is to go renaissance and apprentice yourself to a master. It’s an interesting idea, especially in light of something I read on Marcus Westbury’s blog recently, Are volunteers in the arts exploited?<\/em><\/a> The connection being that if you were to apprentice yourself to the person you really wanted to learn from, would you expect payment? I have been applying for funding to do just that – learn from a master- and I have not once thought that any fruits of my learning would be of such value as to attract monetary compensation from the teacher. To put it another way, I am seeking an unpaid apprenticeship.<\/p>\n

All this is hot on the heels of a email I received yesterday, seeking advice on how to become a jeweller. Going by the questions put to me, to those with little knowledge of ‘art jewellery’, it would seem that an apprenticeship is the gold-standard learning model. (The ‘traditional’ poorly paid apprenticeship, that is – hello to my sister the furniture manufacturer!)<\/p>\n

So we have agreement, as those outside art-jewellery think David Byrne is correct. To the apprenticeship! So why are there no artist-jeweller’s offering traditional\/paid apprenticeships? Is it because of Marcus’s call to arms, which is essentially; why be exploited, when you can exploit yourself? Or does it come to another arm of his argument – there’s not enough money, not to pay you<\/strong>, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa sidesteps the craft-art argument, by using David Byrne as a shield and Marcus Westbury as a diversionary tactic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}