Mentorship Opportunities
Mentorship is a key educational and professional development tool at Wethersfield Academy for the Arts . For someone new to the field, it's a great opportunity to learn
from someone else's experience; to gain new skills and to receive
support. For the mentor, there is personal satisfaction from sharing
expertise and opportunities to fine-tune personal skills. By reflecting
on their own experiences, mentors may find new inspiration and energy to
pursue personal and career goals.
For the rising artist wishing to find a mentor we will do our
best to match you with a professional in your particular genre. The Academy
Arts Peer Mentor program is a program for students enrolled at
Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. This program is meant to help
students in our community explore opportunities in arts and help create a
pathway that will lead them to achieving their goals.
Become a Mentor
As you may have experienced in your own artistic development, a
mentor can be a very important and valuable asset in exploring and
growing your art career. Mentors have often acquired a wealth of
knowledge and first-hand experience that would benefit rising artist as
they search out their own personal paths to success in their chosen
field of art.
Are you willing to share your skills and knowledge of the workplace? To
be a mentor, you must be successfully employed or self employed in
field of art, and willing to respond in a timely and appropriate manner
to e-mail queries about your chosen artistic path. You must be a
qualified professional with a solid knowledge base in the field of art.
Your participation is the true key to the success of this program. By
volunteering as a mentor you are:
• Serving as a role model
• Helping to break down barriers to the challenges of making a living in the field of art
• Teaching new ways of accomplishing career requirements
• Passing on your hard-earned knowledge and experience
• Motivating and inspiring artists to reach their higher goals and greater ambitions