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We're now accepting applications for paid summer apprenticeships creating works of art. with professional artists. Teens who will be ages 14 to 19 during our six week summer program (June 14, 2010 - July 23, 2010) can apply online until March 31.   

Please take a few minutes to take our survey by clicking here!   

Final Sale 7/23/09

 Check out ArtWorks' Final Sale!   

July 23rd, 11am-1:30pm
Come check out St. Louis ArtWorks in action!  Our summer Final Art Sale is Thursday, July 23rd from 11am-1:30pm at the Commerce Bank Education Center (part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens), on 4651 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis.  See what the summer apprentices have been working on in their five disciplines (listed below), and purchase one-of-a-kind artwork made by teens employed by ArtWorks.  Also enjoy a dance performance from the Books in Motion discipline!
 

Fire Paintings; Raku Cermaic Murals

ArtWorks in Focus: A Documentary and Photography Program

Sculptural Escape

Intersection:  Personally Mapping the Central West End

Books in Motion:  Dance
  

Spirit of St. Louis Women's Fund and Wells Fargo Advisors support operational funds and summer apprentice salaries.
St. Louis ArtWorks announces two grants awarded by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund and Wells Fargo Advisors (formerly Wachovia Securities), totaling $34,000, with $4,000 coming from the Spirit of St. Louis, and $30,000 from Wells Fargo Advisors.
 
The Wells Fargo Advisors grant will go towards the organization’s operational funds, and the Spirit of St. Louis grant is designated for the salaries of four apprentices in the summer apprenticeship program, which starts June 15 and puts nearly 100 underserved St. Louis youth to work in a variety of creative disciplines under the guidance of professional artists. 
  
Read about Reagan Williams at Lift for Life Academy

Check out our testimonial page, and learn how ArtWorks experience still inspires a high school physics teacher, and more success stories!   

Your Gift to St. Louis ArtWorks May Cost You Very Little

If you or your organization supported ArtWorks in 2008 and you pay Missouri income tax, you are eligible to receive a Youth Opportunity Programs tax credit.  Please don't miss the your opportunity to reduce your tax bill this spring.

 
For example, if you supported ArtWorks by commissioning a graphic image for $1,000, $900 is eligible, so you would received a credit for $450.  Your own tax adviser can give you more details.  Please download and print the form, fill it out and return it to us with a copy of your cancelled check.  We will sign off on it and submit it for you.
 
Cash: valued at face value amount of check – receives 50% credit.
Stocks and Bonds: valued at market value (high) on the date of transfer - receives 50% credit.
Materials, Supplies, Equipment: valued at the lesser of either the fair market value or contributor’s cost – receives 30% tax credit.

    

    

ArtWorks can now fulfill your holiday shopping needs!

From cards to gifts, our apprentices' art will make your gift-giving original and creative, and our new e-store makes it crazy-simple.  We've picked out some of our favorite images that you can have printed on a variety of great items.  You'll also find holiday cards and our St. Louis Community cards, and coming soon, signed works of original art!   

We've created a new Facebook group for our fans, alumni, and supporters. If you have a facebook account, please join the group to show your support, and help promote our organization and events!   

BoomerRacks is an St. Louis ArtWorks enterprise that uses art and entreprenuership to generate revenues to sustain the youth mentoring programs. BoomerRacks promotes green living through recycling and fuel-free exercise.   




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St. Louis ArtWorks in the News

Tashe Stefacek might go into science. Alejandro Lopez might become a physical therapist. Right now, both of them are concentrating on art...   

Earlier this Spring, the St. Louis region was honored with a 2008 All-American City award by the National Civic League. Included in the region’s winning nomination was Boomerang Press, an innovative, youth-oriented entrepreneurial program started in 2005 by St. Louis ArtWorks. Insights recently caught up with a Priscilla Block, executive director of St. Louis ArtWorks, to learn more...   

It's called the Oscar of civic progress, and St. Louis has won it for the first time since the 1960's. But what convinced the judges we deserved the All America City award? It was an innovative program credited as the art of the deal. The idea is simple: hire disadvantaged kids who need a job and teach them the skills they'll need to get a better one, using art to make it fun. And use real artists to help the kids create something to sell...   

Imagine a bunch of curious Japanese tourists stepping gingerly through the ruins of a once-grand avenue of urban America, gawking at deserted and burned-out hulks of historic buildings, wondering how a great city could have sunk so low.   

Regionalism, a value more frequently honored hereabouts in the abstract than in practice, paid off in a nice honor for St. Louis last week: The St. Louis region was named as one of 10 "All America" cities by the National Civic League.   

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