CCA courses in art education and youth mentorship with school and community partnership components offer the opportunity to explore teaching and mentoring. In these classes, students learn to apply theoretical knowledge and studio skills to real world contexts while extending art education experiences in schools.

College and public school faculty guide their students in designing and collaborating on projects involving visual, multimedia, environmental, and literary art projects.

A wide array of courses are available that provide experience in working with youth in K–12 schools. Time spent with youth varies in length from 2 to 10 weeks and may occur one-on-one or in small groups, depending on the structure of the course. Classes can occur on the CCA campus or at a school site.

Projects in these classes are often student designed and have included filmmaking, photography, mural painting, illustration, and performance art, as well as the architecture and design of new school structures.

Past Classes

	Painting In/Within Communities Instructor: Keith Thomas
	Youth Public Media Project Instructor: Julio Morales
	Community Build Project Instructor: Patricia Alarcon

What Students Learn

CCA students learn . . .

• Critical skills in contextual thinking regarding the relationship between aesthetics and culture, ideology and environment
• How to investigate, engage with, reflect on familiar and diverse contexts and meaning, style, and utility of aesthetics in relation to culture and ideology of origin
• Skills of collaboration, diplomacy, and social activism
• Interdisciplinary aesthetic skills