Expanding our mission to include "articulating a role for the arts" in community development, C.L.A. initiated The Arts and Community Development Project in 1993. Since inception we have provided more than 550 young people with summer and year round job experiences in the arts.
SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS
A program of the Arts and Community Development Project at California Lawyers for the Arts
Spotlight on the Arts provides deserving teens who are interested in the arts with paid summer internships, workshops on conflict resolution, college preparation and career development, "backstage" tours of arts facilities, and field trips to live cultural events. In San Francisco youth have interned at diverse arts organizations including Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, A.C.T. Costume Shop, Cartoon Art Museum, Zaccho Dance Theatre and Streetside Stories. In Los Angeles we have placed interns at Grand Performances, LA Stage Alliance, Robey Theatre, and Shakespeare Festival LA. Tours of arts facilities and excursions to cultural events have included the New Conservatory Theatre, African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco Mime Troupe and Stern Grove. Graduates of Spotlight may be eligible to continue their internships for up to 10 hours per week during the school year.
APPLY NOW for SPOTLIGHT 2010 SUMMER PROGRAM. The deadline is May 1, 2010. Flyer for SPOTLIGHT SUMMER 2010
Internship Providers
If you are an arts organization or business interested in having a youth placed with you this summer, please contact Jill Roisen at 775-7200 x 102 for more information. You will be required to fill out and send to us an application and Memorandum of Understanding.
Spotlight on the Arts has been funded by public and private agencies and individuals including the San Francisco Department of Children Youth & Their Families, The Tom Merit Hancock Family Fund, The Merit and Carol Hancock Memorial Fund, LEF Foundation, Lennar Corporation, PG & E, Wells Fargo Foundation, Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Foundation, William and Clare Warhaftig Fund and Diane Wilsey.
For more information call (415) 775-7200 Ext. 102 or email
jill.roisen@calawyersforthearts.org.