[Jewelry making - Article 00093] - Re: [Orchid] Philadelphia jewelry classes

[MPark763]

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>           They want low priced beginners who won't mind working
>     cheap.  Even the talented and capable students, grads included,
>     often have a very hard time making a living as artists in the
>     manner the schools train them for. 


Hi Peter,

    I don't think its about money. I hired a Tyler grad who was very
    talented but who really stuggled in a more commercial jewelry,
    trade shop environment. And she was not my only college grad who
    had trouble. I think the main problem is that they spent years
    making stuff that did not require any precision. Where if you
    take a person and train them from the begining yourself they
    start out sizing rings and soldering chains and don't progress
    until they do it perfectly every time. And it continues like that
    until every phase of jewelry making is mastered, or until they
    have gone as far as they can.  Many college trained metalsmiths
    never really master the basics before graduating. I have found
    that college grads are only slightly more valuable to me than
    people out of a good high school metals program. It is very
    defeating to a new college graduate when they find out that they
    need to be retrained. Its hard for me to understand what the
    school expected them to do for a living when they got out. 

    I don't think that college is a waste of time of course, its
    wonderful. I just think schools, even Tyler, are miles away from
    producing the jewelers that they should be producing. 

    Also on a different subject, we may have a mutual friend, did
    you know Mark Gondek? 

Mark P.
WI

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