Summer Jobs for Teens Young Audiences’ ArtWorks Offers Paid Internships in the Arts

Teens entering grades 10-12 and looking for valuable work experience through paid internships should apply for Artworks Summer now.

ArtWorks Summer is a workforce development program for high school students designed to develop 21^st Century job skills such as time and project management, collaboration, professional communication, problem solving, and critical thinking. In addition to these skills, students will gain experience in careers through small groups working with master teaching artists.  Apprentices work toward the completion of a final product in the art form which is showcased at public performances and exhibits. 

ArtWorks is an intensive six-week program, five hours a day, working in theater, dance, music, visual arts, architecture and culinary arts. Internships meet downtown:

• Halle Building, June 13-July 26
• Tri-C’s Metro Campus, June 20-August 2.

No prior arts experience is necessary but teens should have a strong interest in the arts and a willingness to work in a multi-cultural environment.

To apply or learn more about the internships offers, visit,www.yaneo.org/artworks/index/php.

Applications are due Friday, March 30, 4 p.m.

About Young Audiences ArtWorks

Founded in 2005, ArtWorks is the only multi-disciplinary, arts-based job-training program for Northeast Ohio high school students that provides training in the arts while developing skills for the workplace, such as teamwork, discipline, creative problem solving, critical thinking and personal responsibility.  ArtWorks "apprentices" create exciting original work in theater, dance, music, visual arts, video game design, architecture and other art forms. Master Teaching Artists mentor apprentices and teach them not only the specifics of an arts discipline, but also essential 21st-century skills that transfer to any workplace. ArtWorks apprentices earn a wage, host public performances and exhibitions of their work, and are provided opportunities to work as professionals on real-world and community-oriented projects, often collaboratively across art forms. For more information visit www.yaneo.org/artworks. 

About Young Audiences

Young Audiences enriches the lives of children and promotes creative learning by uniting arts and education.  Organized in 1953, the Northeast Ohio chapter of Young Audiences is the only multi-arts resource for schools in the region  whose primary purpose is to make learning through the arts an essential part of young people’s education.  Programs take place in public, private, and parochial schools, reaching nearly 225,000 young people each year. For more information visit www.yaneo.org.