Craft Apprentice Program Application Deadline is 12/9

Craft Apprentice Program 2017

Application Deadline: Friday December 9, 4pm

Learn More and Apply:
www.MaineCAP.org

“Single” applicants are invited to fill out this form for matching purposes:

CAP Match Maker

Craft Apprentice Program

“CAP is a very welcome opportunity for me to share my love, enthusiasm, talent and insight, and to do my part to ensure the skills are carried onward into a new generation.”
– Doug Wilson, 2016 CAP alumni master blacksmith

Our Program
The Maine Craft Apprentice Program (MaineCAP) lasts for seven months; March – September. Applicants apply jointly, providing clear, agreed upon goals, a basic plan for how goals will be achieved, and a proposed budget for the apprentice’s honorarium. Both must also submit resumes and images of current work.

Eligibility
Eligibility requires participants to be at least eighteen years of age, current Maine residents, and apprentices must demonstrate foundational skills in the medium they wish to pursue.

Selection Process
Applications are reviewed by a panel of Maine professionals for a first round elimination. The panel also interviews the finalist pairs with awards given to two or more joint applicants.

Honorarium
Both receive honorariums based on a recommended one hundred hours of one-on-one training ($3000 to the master, $1000 to the apprentice). The honorarium for the master artist covers their time and transference of knowledge/expertise, while the apprentice’s funds are for supplies/equipment.

Relationship
A majority of the training happens at the master’s studio. Occasionally they visit other studios or events of relevance to their goals. Although we provide a distinct structure for implementation, MaineCAP also allows for adaptations as the pair sees fit to maximize the experience for each. MaineCAP requires that the pair submit interim and final reports.

The Exhibition
To close the program, all artists participate in an exhibition at LA Arts in Lewiston. Maine Magazine is the 2017 exclusive magazine sponsor of the program’s exhibition Masters & Apprentices: Work from Maine’s Craft Apprentice Program.