Mission
St. Louis ArtWorks collaborates with the community to provide work experience through apprenticeships in the arts for youth in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Apprentices, many from urban neighborhoods, benefit from developing creative thinking and employment skills and discovering and exploring interests and talents that may influence career and educational opportunities.
About St. Louis ArtWorks
Created in 1995, St. Louis ArtWorks has served over 1200 youth by providing a unique job opportunity in the visual, literary and performing arts.
 Boomerang Press is an ArtWorks Enterprise that uses art and entrepreneurship to generate revenues to sustain their youth mentoring programs. more |
In collaboration with the community, young adults, 14 through 19 years old, are hired for 6 weeks each summer and 10 weeks in the fall and spring to work as apprentices with some of the region's most notable artists.
Working with our partnering Arts Teaching Organizations and their Teaching Teams, we create a curriculum which teaches not only the artistic discipline, but also the business of being an artist. Working on commissioned artwork, apprentices have the experience of meeting their clients, preparing a project budget, and seeing their work installed.
Definitely not your average job, St. Louis ArtWorks is an innovative way for teens to gain life skills, boost self-esteem and pocket a hard-earned paycheck.
Artwork produced by the Apprentices is sold at a public retail sale, commissioned for public and private clients, and performed publicly. Apprentices take away a lasting set of experiences, as well as a resume and portfolio of real work, and references.
Apprentices benefit from:
- developing creative thinking
- learning employment skills
- discovering and exploring interests leading to new career or educational choices
St. Louis ArtWorks artistic disciplines provide Apprentice Artists with skills in various art forms, while also developing cognitive skills vital to the workplace, such as problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making.
Contact Information
St. Louis ArtWorks Centene Center for the Arts 3547 Olive Street, Suite 280 Mezzanine Level St. Louis, MO 63103-1014 314-289-4180 phone 314-289-4189 fax info@stlartworks.org
