Beaver Creek Arts on mon 7 mar 05
Hi everyone,
Thanks to Gayle Bair for forwarding the message to me about the request for instructors for the program aboard cruise ships. My husband, Paul, and I just returned from two months on the Island Princess making four 15 day circuits around the Hawaiian Islands. The request for instructors were to relieve us to disembark in Los Angeles. We have been involved in this program since April of last year and have taught on 10 cruises. We have been to the Caribbean, Alaska, and Hawaii. It's great fun, but there is no pay, so one has to be able to leave home for a month financially. We always have enough time beforehand to prepare, but this last trip there was an emergency need, thus the quick turnaround.
If anyone has more questions, I'd be glad to respond. I just rejoined the listserve last night, so I can either get private mail or from the list. It's good to be back, but what a great time we had.
Lynne Antone
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Beaver Creek Arts
1820 Beaver Creek Drive SW
Olympia WA 98512
USA
Donna Nicosia on mon 7 mar 05
Hi Lynne,,would you please send me some info about instructing on the cruise
ships. Thank you, Donna
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Hi everyone,
Thanks to Gayle Bair for forwarding the message to me about the request for
instructors for the program aboard cruise ships. My husband, Paul, and I
just returned from two months on the Island Princess making four 15 day
circuits around the Hawaiian Islands. The request for instructors were to
relieve us to disembark in Los Angeles. We have been involved in this
program since April of last year and have taught on 10 cruises. We have been
to the Caribbean, Alaska, and Hawaii. It's great fun, but there is no pay,
so one has to be able to leave home for a month financially. We always have
enough time beforehand to prepare, but this last trip there was an emergency
need, thus the quick turnaround.
If anyone has more questions, I'd be glad to respond. I just rejoined the
listserve last night, so I can either get private mail or from the list.
It's good to be back, but what a great time we had.
Lynne Antone
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Beaver Creek Arts
1820 Beaver Creek Drive SW
Olympia WA 98512
USA
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Beaver Creek Arts on tue 8 mar 05
This is the message I am sending out to the people who contacted me. I did forget to mention that Candace, the contractor, is rather difficult to contact at times. She is in the Bahamas at present and travels constantly with her work. Just hang in there and she will get back to you.
Hi all,
I have been waiting for the contractor for the clay program to get back to me with permission to release her email address. I just got it this morning. It's candaceresnick@hotmail.com Candace and a partner were featured in a CM article some years ago, you can do a search in the CM site archives to see the date.
We do a single, cone 2 firing of pieces and passengers take home a piece or pieces, depending on them, there is a fee for the lesson and per piece. We have an average of 2 per pass. Paul and I work together with four wheels at a time, so two students each. A single person, which is done all the time, may have to teach four at a time in a one hour session.
It's all up to you, but there is an established schedule, on average of six hours a day, not counting prep time and hauling pots and loading the kiln, etc. All of the port days are days off, so while on the Islands, you are as free as the passengers. That is a five day period of time, a different port each day.
cruises? Is it an 'on call' type situation?> Supplies are all provided by the ship, we only take our own aprons (the ship provides the rubber kind) and a few of the tools we like to use for our way of throwing during demo time. Deck Hands do all of the clean up every day of the wheels and area after you take care of the tools and used clay. We give Candace our schedule, letting her know our available months. This last cruise when the call went out, the expected potter got ill so late, that there was a real bind in finding a replacement. This doesn't happen often. You usually have a couple of months notice.
The ship we have always worked on is the Island Princess. The Coral Princess, now in the Carribean, is the only other ship with the "wet clay" program. The Island leaves for Alaska in May til Sept, I think. Look at the Princess web site to see where ships will be during the year.
Hope this answers all of your questions.
Lynne
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Beaver Creek Arts
1820 Beaver Creek Drive SW
Olympia WA 98512
USA
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