Re: Women Beyond Borders - OT

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :

]*sigh* Is there NO ONE??????

well . . . if i move . . . **SIGH**

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----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

I'll be really focusing on finding someone as soon as I get confirmation re: my backers. They will be handling the payroll for this person, at least for a while. I'm going to contact the museum, as well as Gallery B here in Toledo, as they both offer lampworking classes.

Vicki, you'd love it here ;-)

Hee hee - it was worth a try!

Kathy K

Those are so cool!!!!

Yep. Apprentice, studio assistant, admin person... It's more difficult than I thought it would be.

Thanks, again!

I made them so that I could take an unobtrusive, portable Pagan "altar" to work with me, without stirring up my coworkers.

I suppose that if you're not pagan, you could use Christian themes for the outside and stick a tiny crucifix, Maddona, or even a teeny nativity scene inside.

The possiblities are endless. :o)

Arondelle

Just to clarify- this is in Ohio?

It sure is. Toledo's Old West End Historic District. A few blocks from the world-class Toledo Museum of Art. Home to Tony Packo's hot dogs.

With my looming surgery, I couldn't commit to anyting rite nowe anyway. =(

You are so so bad.

Then how about a collaboration, where you get to have a good price for the lampworker's creations -- stuff that would enhance your own work?

I think many of us could come closer to flourishing, if we didn't have to do it in relative isolation, using only our own resources.

Tink will flourish more with an assistant to go to the post office for her. The assistant might flourish more with a learning opportunity ... or even just the chance to feed their soul on watching the process of transforming rods of glass into beautiful creations. Even if lampworking isn't their thing, getting that close to someone else's creative process could unlock their own creative spark, and give them courage to pursue something elusive in their own hearts.

Deirdre.

I think I'm going to contact the Museum this week. They teach lampworking in the school of design there. Mari Johnson has taught there and other notables. Maybe they can pass the word. The workshops I'm doing begin next week, so maybe I'll find someone amongst my students. There is a Glass Society here, so maybe I should check with them. I've been wanting to make contact with them anyway, so this is a great excuse.

I have high hopes. LOL!

So yeah... I need an apprentice/assistant. The last thing I need is a partner. And I need to make that clear in the interviewing process. If I ever find anyone to interview, that is. LOL!

Like Genny and me flying to visit each other between MN and OR. You find out how much you value something (or someone) when you see what you are willing to do to give yourself access to it ...

Deirdre

If only I didn't live so far away... *sigh* I would love to be your apprentice/assistant...

Thank you. Sorry to hear you have to go through one too.

How have you been publicizing this job op? Have you tried contacting a local arts college -- or even a high school? Do you have a local version of craigslist? Do you have an 'in' with local bead stores, or other lampworkers who might send promising students your way for more intensive development than they could get taking isolated classes?

They have to be local to you, so the arrangement -works-. Where can you contact people who not only wish they could take up this offer, but are close enough so they actually can?

Deirdre

I've already offered, but you weren't willing to move to Redlands, CA, so don't go sounding like that! LOL!

Jewitch

are willing to do to give yourself access to it ...<

Absolutely!!! Thanks for putting it in that perspective.

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