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Accomplished Arts Apprenticeships Recruiting Fair 2024
March 16 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Free
$0
Would YOU or someone you know like to be an arts apprentice? The Accomplished Arts Apprentices (AAA) program aims to increase equity and inclusion in the arts, creative and preservation trades, with specific focus on people from marginalized communities in Baltimore. Launched in 2020 by Jeffrey Kent, the Peale’s Curator-in-Residence, the program is now recruiting its third cohort of apprentices. Apprentices receive hands-on training in exhibition installation, art handling, historic preservation, and related trades, as well as greater involvement in and appreciation of the arts lifelong.
The program teaches professional as well as life skills that will be useful to any future employment the apprentices may pursue, including how to identify and secure fulfilling lifetime work opportunities. Importantly for people from economic disadvantage, the trades skills being taught in this program lead to well-paid, meaningful careers that don’t require the up-front investment of a college degree but are financially and creatively rewarding, helping strengthen and preserve communities, their cultural heritage, and their futures.
Coursework includes:
-Workplace transferable skills, e.g.: safety and workplace etiquette
-Techniques used in historic building preservation
-Fine Art installation, proper artwork handling, and tool usage
-Wall repair and painting
-Masonry skills
-Proper use of classic hand tools, as well as electric woodworking tools
-Teamwork and collaboration
-Learn various career opportunities for this profession
-Fieldtrips to various cultural institutions in Baltimore
-Financial literacy
Additional Details:
- Interviews will take place the week following the recruitment fair. Decisions will be made quickly, as the program begins Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
- The program’s first session runs for approximately 17 weeks. There is a six week break in the summer, then Apprentices may apply for a second 17 week session that begins in September and ends in December 2024.
- The program is roughly 30 hours per week, Tuesday – Friday from 9:30am – 5:30pm.
- Apprentices will receive a livable hourly wage, assistance with transportation to the program, and lunch daily.
- Apprentices will be required to obtain a checking account so that they can be paid weekly via direct deposit.
Accessibility
Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available upon request for this event. ASL requests must be made three full business days prior to an event.
Wheelchair and Physical Building Access / The Peale has a brand new elevator! The new accessible entrance is on the left side of the building, down Watchouse alley about 100 ft. There is a keypad on the right side of the elevator door. Press the button to call the elevator. There is a door that will swing open automatically once the elevator is called so stand back. Once the door is open you can enter the elevator portico and then step/roll/dance into the elevator. When you come out of the elevator you will be in a short hallway by the bathrooms and the lobby and welcome desk is on the right. There are three floors in the Peale there is a handrail on all flights of stairs. Various and ample forms of seating is available in every room. The historic entrance has five steps and no functioning handrail.
Parking / There is a temporary drop off spot in the “no parking” zone directly in front of the Holliday St. entrance. There are multiple public paid parking lots within a two block radius of The Peale as well as street parking. There are 4 access parking spots on the 200 block of Holliday Street.
Visual Descriptions and more / For additional information about captioning, ASL, services, and more, please visit our Accessibility page.
Visual Descriptions and more / For additional information about captioning, ASL, services, and more, please visit our Accessibility page.