Volunteer!
Thank you for your interest in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Teaching Assistant (TA) Program! TA positions are for 15 – 18 year olds interested in art and/or working with children. Our TA positions are on a volunteer basis and count toward required community service hours. TAs assist students and Teaching Artists during art camps held at the Museum’s Ridley-Tree Education Center (RTEC), a studio art education facility.
Teaching Assistant Giani Roberts assists students and Teaching Artist Kendall Pata with printmaking during summer 2013.
During summer break we offer week-long Ceramics and ArtVenture (AVC) Camps with a variety of activities including painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and sculpture, structured around a specific theme.
Teaching Assistant (TA) positions are for 15–18 year olds interested in art and working with children during these camps at the RTEC. The site offers camps for students ages 5–12 in an atmosphere where creativity, studio art practices, and fun create an enriching experience.
TAs are responsible for assisting the Teaching Artist in the classroom, preparing materials, and helping children with hands-on art making. For summer camp, the minimum volunteer commitment is two weeks and is equivalent to 80 hours of community service credit.
Becoming a TA provides young artists with professional skills in art making and art education. This competitive program includes an orientation, Museum tour, mentoring by a Teaching Artist, and Studio Hours (available upon request). TAs walk away with a solid relationship to the Museum, teaching skills, new art techniques, and more.
TA COMMITMENT IS A MINIMUM OF TWO (2) WEEKS
AVC Camp, 8 am – 4 pm (40 hours of Community Service per week)
Ceramics Camp, 8 am – 4 pm (40 hours of Community Service per week)April: TA recruiting begins
May 20: Applications are due
Late May: Recruitment is finalized and final roster of TAs is created for all nine (9) weeks of camp
June 3 and 4: Orientation and Museum Tour from 3:30–5 pm (choose from one of the dates offered)
All Summer: Studio hours available upon request
ArtVenture Camps
Ceramics Camps
Shape and Sculpt: Techniques in 3-D
July 7 – 11
August 4 – 8
Sculpt, form, and construct using clay, wire, cardboard, wood, and found materials. Explore all things sculptural in the Museum’s collection and in other works of public art as a starting point for your own daring designs.
Build It: Adventures in Architecture
Inspired by the Museum’s own building and Santa Barbara’s Historic Arts District, this camp invites budding architects to draw and build their own vision of the future. Follow the process that architects use in designing, from concept to construction. Sketch original ideas, draw detailed floor plans, and create models of your vision of a community.
Draw Like Crazy: Creative Cartoons
Doodle, sketch, and draw with a rich assortment of materials, and using the Living in the Timeless: Drawings by Beatrice Wood exhibition and cartoon-like prints of Honoré Daumier as inspiration for characters, visual diaries, and illustrated stories.
Innovate and Experiment: Exploring Contemporary Art
Inspired by the work of Southern California artists featured in Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, this camp invites you to think, and make, outside the box. Investigate scale and subject matter, experiment with non-traditional and found materials, and try new media and techniques of rising art stars!