Our volunteer mentors help us to serve over 300 youth every year—they are vital to making a positive impact in the lives of youth!
We intentionally keep our classes small to facilitate student-adult interaction and relationship-building, allowing us to create a healthy, positive environment. Each class is limited to 10-13 students with one teaching artist and 1-3 volunteer adult mentors.
We place mentors in each of our classes to assist teaching artists and to build positive relationships with youth. Mentors commit between 40 and 50 hours of their time each eight-week quarter, participating in all classes and the End of Quarter Show. During the eight-week Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters, the mentoring schedule is:
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Two days a week (Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday) from 4:30pm - 7:00pm + End of Quarter Show
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Our Summer Quarter and Partner Program mentoring needs vary
We are seeking mentors who have experience working with underserved youth and in a field of photography, and are willing to learn and implement our youth development strategies for building a positive community.
Mentors in the Digital Photography classes need to be comfortable using Adobe Lightroom, and using the manual settings of DSLR cameras. Mentors in the Black & White Photography classes need to be comfortable using 35mm film cameras, processing film by hand, and printing photos in a darkroom.
