Apprenticeship Application
Mary Fox Legacy
Apprenticeship Program
Application for Apprenticeship 2026-2027
opens June 2025
The search for the next apprentice starts soon, see below for further information.
Before you know it, applications will be open for the 2026-2027 Apprenticeship program! See below to learn more about the program, more questions? contact us at maryfoxsociety@gmail.com. We ask that you hold your application until the submission window opens in June 2025.
About the program
The Mary Fox Legacy Project started a 2-year apprenticeship program at the pottery in 2020. The program is based on traditional apprenticeships where the potter learns to recreate the head potter’s tableware amongst a myriad of other studio jobs.
For the first year the apprentice is not to make any of their own work, they are to be focused on learning to throw and glaze the tableware. It is not the easiest thing to create another person’s forms, it takes a certain kind of focus and mindset. You have to put aside your ego, all that you have learned in relation to your own forms and step into another’s shoes, so to speak.
In the second year, the apprentice is afforded one week a month to start developing their own work. At the beginning of the year, they are to present a set of drawings illustrating the line of work they wish to create and the type of glaze firing they would like to do it in. Both the gas and the electric kiln will be available to the apprentice. To date the apprentices have chosen to explore cone 6 oxidation as that is what they will have available when they graduate from the program.
The apprentice will receive mentorship from Mary as well as a monthly honorarium during their two years. Currently the society has a goal of purchasing housing for the apprenticeship and future residency program. However, we are not there yet and until housing has been obtained the apprentice will have to find their own accommodation.
Presently, the royalties from the sale of Mary’s books are being donated to the apprenticeship program. Once our goal of securing housing is reached the royalties will be deposited into the endowment fund. If you would like to help us in attaining our goal, you can donate to the housing fund by clicking the button below. Your donation is greatly appreciated by the potters and Mary.
Getting Ready
Get a head start by working on your portfolio, for your June 2025 application. Though the apprenticeship doesn’t have set qualifications, the more studio experience you have the better!
