Fall 2016 Teen Arts Mentorship Presentation

November 14, 2016

The Arts Fund presents

Fall 2016 Teen Arts Mentorship Presentation

Featuring films from Video Essay Making, performance and videos from Dance for Camera, and work from Photoshop for Animation

About the Teen Arts Mentorship Program

Initiated in 1993, the Teen Arts Mentorship is an in-depth arts enrichment experience designed to expose teen artists ages 13–18 to career opportunities in the visual arts, performance and multimedia arts, and literature. Working in small groups of 5–10 with the best professional artists, filmmakers and writers in our community, students are able to develop specific art-making skills, learn exhibition techniques, and build strong portfolios, résumés, professional networks, and real-world experience before applying for college. Over the years we have seen hundreds of our students receive scholarships and acceptance into excellent university art programs through their work in the mentorships.

The Teen Arts Mentorship program offers classes in virtually every kind of medium throughout the year: photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, assemblage, murals, graphic design, creative writing, poetry, filmmaking, singing for theater, and performance art. Over the last couple of years have been actively expanding this program in many ways to include 15+ year round classes with a fall session focused on performance and multimedia arts, new mentors and classes, and now a branch of mentorship offerings in the underserved community of Santa Barbara’s North County.

About the Arts Fund

The Arts Fund (www.artsfundsb.org) was established as a nonprofit in 1983. The organization’s mission is to create, fund and administer programs that foster the arts for the people of Santa Barbara County, to maximize the effectiveness of arts resources, and to nurture collaborative relationships between arts organizations. 

The Arts Fund is known for our Teen Arts Mentorship Program, which matches promising high school students with professional artist mentors in intensive workshops representing a spectrum of cultural arts. We are also known for our Community Gallery, which presents professionally curated art exhibitions featuring artists from across Santa Barbara County. Through our Guest Curator program, the gallery frequently invites exhibition proposals from the community in order to provide diverse, thought provoking and exciting exhibits. The Arts Fund also coordinates the Funk Zone Art Walk and facilitates projects for the Funk Zone Public Art Program, including large-scale murals and public sculpture. For more information please visit www.artsfundsb.org or e-mail info@artsfundsb.org.

TIMES: Monday, November 14, at 6:00 P.M.

TICKETS: Admission free

All seating is general admission. All ticket sales are final at the time of purchase. There are no refunds or exchanges. For all performances late seating is on a limited basis, or is not allowed at all once the performance begins. Please plan your arrival time accordingly.

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