With the support from the California Arts Council, Venice Arts will sustain and expand our Art Mentoring & Education program and its Creative Pathways college and career readiness activities.
1. Art Mentoring & Education: Our longest-lasting program offers free sequential (beginning to advanced) workshops in photography, filmmaking, animation, and comic art and narrative illustration to youth age 10-18 during an academic year cycle and a summer Media Arts Camp. It includes Creative Pathways, providing directed support for college and creative careers aspirations.
2. Center for Creative Workforce Equity (CCWE): Our new Center supports our creative career development programs for young people through the age of 24. They range from exposure to creative career pathways to education and training in visual storytelling including paid internship, apprenticeships, and job placements. In a radical rethinking of how to build equity and opportunity in the arts and entertainment, young people are supported to fully commit to their education by being compensated while they learn.
3. Gallery & Public Programs: Free public exhibition programs of high-caliber work by young artists, professional photographers, and filmmakers; with public programs, panels and screenings.
4. Participatory Documentary Programs: We train, consult, design, and deliver projects for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and academic institutions interested in our unique creative youth development model, or in our participant-produced documentary practices. We have worked with diverse organizations across California & the US, and in Hong Kong, Senegal, South Africa, Mozambique, and Southeast Asia.

