Bonsai Apprenticeship
It is sponsored by toyota north america and the hill foundation.
Bonsai apprenticeship. We teach you the essential bonsai techniques in this course including pruning wiring repotting and bonsai care. These plants have none. There s a nomination process and the apprentices work is reviewed etc. Asia pacific bonsai friendship federation 2020 exhibition may 27 28 mokpo korea the asia pacific bonsai friendship federation abff was established in manila on february 28th 2003 and coincided with the aspac vii conducted by the philippine bonsai society inc.
Essentially there are two different techniques. Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style. Master apprentice enthusiast bonsai education. If this seems daunting well it is.
Most of the shaping and pruning as well as wiring and rewiring are done when the bonsai tree is potted in the training pot. Intermediate ready to take your skills to the next level. Learn more about him here. It means that the apprentice has served his master for a minimum of 5 years.
It is the care and training that makes bonsai. In japan there is a process to become a certified bonsai master. Andrew s background is in music with a master s degree from the yale school of music. January 1 2017bonsaiplace it is generally accepted and published on various websites that an apprenticeship can take between 2 000 and 12 000 hours to complete.
Only a couple weeks out of graduate school andrew robson began his apprenticeship at crataegus bonsai in portland. The bonsai training pots are like a workhouse of the bonsai pot. Andrew bello was selected as the 2019 first curator s apprentice. It takes years to learn most bonsai skills well two years to learn the basics anyway.
While in school there he performed at the new york philharmonic s new music biennial among other. Pruning bonsai without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis. It s rather a big deal. The purpose of the apprenticeship is to educate and train a new generation of american bonsai artists.
He s been here since june 2016. Therefore bonsai training pots need not to be beautiful works of art.