Teen Arts Council

The Teen Arts Council is a group of 12 high school students who design and implement meaningful, empowering, and entertaining programs for metro Detroit teens. Focused on community building, social justice, and culture, this group of creative and energized teens seeks to create a space within the Detroit Institute of Arts that gives voice and a creative outlet to youth.

As employees of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the council builds relationships with museum staff across departments, as well as museum partners, allowing them to expand their network of artists, local youth leaders, and museum professionals.

• Enjoy free food with registration at events designed for teens, by teens (residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties register for free)
• Extend your thinking through artmaking
• Immerse yourself in art from all around the world
• Socialize with friends or engage with teens from other schools in metro Detroit
• Enjoy personally meaningful experiences with art, peers, and museum professionals.

• Earn $16.50 per hour, roughly 10-20 hours a month.
• Cultivate leadership skills that will support taking on roles of influence as socially engaged community builders now, and in the future
• Generate an understanding of what it means to be artistically and culturally engaged citizens.
• Acquire practical work experience in a world-renowned art museum.
• Gain access to the DIA network of professionals.
• Become familiar with career opportunities in the museum field.
• Broaden a world view grounded in art, different interpretations of art, and the perspectives of diverse peers.
• Develop an aptitude for community engagement and influence.

Job applications open in early May and close in late June each year. Applicants must be 16 years of age by the start of the school year and a resident of Macomb, Oakland, or Wayne counties. Successful candidates will receive a two-year contract that ends when the employee graduates from high school.

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