Carbondale Arts Creative Apprentice Program (CAP) supports youth development by providing paid opportunities for youth (14-19) to work with local creative professionals on projects of community value. Our projects focus on youth development by creating spaces where youth of all backgrounds are valued, supported and nurtured by giving them the tools, skills and a platform to voice their unique perspectives. Through this process youth are able express their lived experiences, meet others with similar experiences and collaborate together, shape an individual's sense of self and together, build community.
The Field/Work project will consider and create public art and design that is rooted in place, specifically the rural west, and how art and design can promote and catalyze a deeper connection to the land, more sustainable practices and ecological and cultural stewardship.
Read MoreWINTER 2024 Creative Apprentice Program.
This project is a collaboration between the Carbondale Art's Creative Apprentice Program and The Project Shop's ReWear Initiative. The Creative Apprentice Program pays teens (14-20) to work with creative professionals to create works of community value through collaboration and learning.
Read MoreOver the course of 14 weeks, seven local students have the opportunity to work with local visual artist, Lindsay Jones to shape a guidebook to their community. The guide will be both practical and poetic and will feature physical sites, cultural resources and displays of social realities. Field guide coming soon.
Read MoreAs part of the 2022 Summer apprentice project, three teens worked with local landscape designer Hallie Miller to study the landscape at Coal Basin Ranch and investigate ways we understand and shape place. Through the project the apprentices developed designs and prototypes for custom entry signage at Coal Basin Ranch.
Read MoreDuring the initial Creative Apprentice project in 2021 and 2022, 4 students used the opportunity to share stories, collaborate and create. The resulting poetry, drawings, and long-form writing expressed their personal and observed experiences with and around mental health issues.
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