Spring 2023 Apprenticeship Project

The project building portion of our Spring 2023 Apprenticeship is coming to an end and soon the program will move into the Learning to Teach component. Apprentices build projects center around a theme and the Spring 2023 theme is Imagining Under The Sea. Read below to see what project the apprentices are creating.

Inspired by our big project seeAsaw, which will be built this summer at Beam Camp City on Governors Island, Apprentices are designing and creating life sized light sculptures based on the theme Imagining Under the Sea. The theme engages with discourse around ocean pollution and the survival of wildlife. Additionally, Apprentices are delving into life on earth that we don’t encounter everyday on land while diving into the depths of their own creativity as they imagine this realm. The sculptures are a cross between large puppets and massive lanterns. Apprentices are working with reed, wood shop machinery, puppetry, basket making techniques, soldering, and visual art. 

Participants in the Apprenticeship program began their journey creating an initial project also dealing with ocean-life, called Fishbone Chair. Through this project Apprentices were introduced to woodworking using traditional and modern methods, as a gateway to help them prepare to work with us this summer at Beam Camp City and help build seeAsaw. 

These projects are created as a group and through them apprentices are learning to collaborate, design, storyboard, carry out a project from drawing to diagramming, translating 2D plans to 3D forms, and building large scale life size sculptures using power tools. To celebrate their hard work and showcase their final product, apprentices will have a parade displaying the projects. Check back here later for more information on the parade.