Art With a Heart

Art With a Heart is the premier not-for-profit visual arts organization in Indianapolis, who with its collaborative partners, provides excellent, innovative, visual arts programming resulting in measurable positive impact on the personal development of at-risk urban youth in becoming creative, productive, successful members of their communities. We believe that high quality, innovative visual arts education programming is essential to helping at-risk urban youth develop their full potential. Our mentor-intensive programs uniquely integrate art with core academic areas, encourage greater self-esteem, and focus on building problem solving, analytical and teamwork skills while maintaining the joy of the creative process. This rich, safe learning environment is designed to produce emotionally, intellectually, and creatively empowered youth. The success and pride of accomplishment that Art With a Heart students experience will translate into a desire to enhance their own surroundings and the community in which they live.
opportunities

Below are some opportunities for you to get involved with this great organization. But don't limit yourself to just these! If you're excited about their mission, give them a call to see what other needs you may be able to fill. Thanks for serving and have fun making a difference!

Volunteer Working in Classroom

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 15 years old.

Description
Assist art instructors set up room, interact with kids in art class, assist students following art instructions, directions in completing lessons and creating art, assist art teachers in cleaning up art rooms and exhibiting art work.
Notes / Special Requirements
Patience, listening, interacting with children, following directions, using simple art materials.

Teachers

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

Description
As an organization that strives to incorporate academics into our art, Art With a Heart is proud to have certified teachers working with our students. If you are a certified teacher with a desire to give back to the community, we’d love to have you help with one of our after-school programs or summer camps. Retired teachers (who are available during the daytime) may enjoy working in a kindergarten class.
Notes / Special Requirements
Art With a Heart uses a volunteer database to track our volunteers’ hours of service. Your time with us will be carefully recorded and easily accessible by staff. We are more than happy to assist our volunteers in filling out forms needed to verify service hours.

Office & Material Prep

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

Description
Art With a Heart welcomes your helping hands and creativity as we prepare our materials for student art projects. Feel free to come in and work with our friendly staff anytime Monday through Friday between 8:00am-5:00pm in our offices at: 6002 Sunnyside Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46236. Please call ahead of time to verify that we have projects available to you. 317-823-9555 ex. 60
Notes / Special Requirements
Art With a Heart uses a volunteer database to track our volunteers’ hours of service. Your time with us will be carefully recorded and easily accessible by staff. We are more than happy to assist our volunteers in filling out forms needed to verify service hours.

Photographers

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

Description
At Art with a Heart we love to capture glimpses of our budding artists at work. We also take pictures of their beautiful art work and our wonderful student art exhibits. Photos are used for grants, brochures, posters, scrapbooks, our website and so much more. We welcome all passionate and skilled photographers who are interested in helping us document our success.
Notes / Special Requirements
Art With a Heart uses a volunteer database to track our volunteers’ hours of service. Your time with us will be carefully recorded and easily accessible by staff. We are more than happy to assist our volunteers in filling out forms needed to verify service hours.

Teacher

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

Description
As an organization that strives to incorporate academics into our art, Art With a Heart is proud to have certified teachers working with our students. If you are a certified teacher with a desire to give back to the community, we’d love to have you help with one of our after-school programs or summer camps. Retired teachers (who are available during the daytime) may enjoy working in a kindergarten class.
Notes / Special Requirements
Art With a Heart uses a volunteer database to track our volunteers’ hours of service. Your time with us will be carefully recorded and easily accessible by staff. We are more than happy to assist our volunteers in filling out forms needed to verify service hours.

Junior Board

Starts: March 1st, 2009

Volunteers must be at least 14 years old.

Description
The Art With a Heart Junior Board, Mentoring Minds and Hearts, consists of high-school students who represent seven city high schools. The Junior Board is actively looking for new members, High School or College aged. The Junior Board strives to have at least one member volunteer at each programming site and exhibit. In order to finance our projects, the Junior Board applies for grants and has received grants from United Way Youth as Resources and has applied for a grant from CICF. The Junior Boards holds monthly meetings to bounce ideas off of one another to help further our efforts. The Junior Board’s motivation is the children. They are the most astounding, inspiring, amazing children you will ever meet. They deserve the world and that is what we are striving to give them.
Notes / Special Requirements
Art With a Heart uses a volunteer database to track our volunteers’ hours of service. Your time with us will be carefully recorded and easily accessible by staff. We are more than happy to assist our volunteers in filling out forms needed to verify service hours.