Mission Statement
The Living Arts Apprenticeship is an immersive program dedicated to deepening artists’ expression, practice, and way of life. We believe in direct transmission of knowledge in the age-old style of live-in master/student apprenticeships.
Some LAAP sessions focus on a single art form. Others employ cross-disciplinary perspectives, drawing on drum-set & harmonic-rhythm study, visual arts, music composition, aikido, and immersion in nature. We offer both group workshops and one-on-one, custom-tailored, week-long sessions.
The ultimate benefit, to the student, is not only improvement in technique but a nature-based expansion of awareness, a deepening of artistic point of view, and a reignited commitment to making lifelong contributions in their chosen field.
History
LAAP was founded in 2005 by Amir Ziv at his rural home-studio in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Amir’s vision was to establish a multi-disciplinary program in which artists in different fields — music, dance, visual arts, martial arts, culinary arts, acting, writing, etc. — could live and study together with their mentors, and while focusing intensely on their particular craft, cross-pollinate and feed off of the various surrounding art forms. Transmission of knowledge was through an immersive, apprenticeship-style structure in a nature environment.
The first couple of years focused on drum-set study and visual arts. In 2007 and 2008, LAAP expanded to include music composition, recording, culinary arts, and aikido. While LAAP’s participant groups grew in size over the years, we have also continued to offer one-on-one, custom tailored, live-in apprenticeships.
In 2014, LAAP teamed up with System Dialing Records to record, produce, and release its first collaborative commercial work between faculty and its participants, entitled Pop It! Drum For Your Life. In 2018, one of its compositions was licensed to HBO.
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