Aaron, you ask a lot of questions about who’s teaching in
New York State. Every time I sit in panic mode. It’s not because jobs are
limited and disappearing like the budgets in school art departments, as the
requirements for our classes are getting more and more difficult. It’s because
I have minimal interest in proceeding with this a career.
For the past five years I’ve been a camp counselor, one of
those years being a director in the ceramic area. This is an experience that I
love doing and would like to continue. Sadly, this past summer may have been my
last year, despite being the full-time Ceramic Director at the camp for the
summer. This is an opportunity that provides me with a budget (outrageous and
impractical in any other setting), six periods per day, kilns, and glaze to
manage with two different classes, hand building and wheel. It’s a very
comfortable but close preparation for teaching. But it’s this comfort and
informality that I enjoy, which I won’t find in a public school.
This summer I plan on doing an internship within the ceramic
world to prepare me to be a working artist, my chosen path. Hopefully one day,
I’ll come full circle and teach again but perhaps at the college level where my
work won’t hurt my reputation but enhance it.
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