Center for Art and Community Partnerships
MassArt’s Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) partners with people and communities within and beyond MassArt to radically expand access to transformative creative experiences.
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PartnershipWORKS
Artful employment with purpose.
Through CACP’s PartnershipWORKS, MassArt students can apply to work in various community-engaged jobs. In these year-long paid placements MassArt students contribute their art and design skills, learn from and with community members, and widen their lenses of Boston and beyond.
About PartnershipWORKS
We employ MassArt students to be productive citizen artists and designers. Through PartnershipWORKS, students work with mission-driven community programs as designers, illustrators, art teachers and more.
These placements are grounded in respectful, reciprocal relationships. MassArt students contribute their art and design skills while learning from and alongside community partners.
Every month, students employed through PartnershipWORKS come together for sessions facilitated by CACP staff. During these gatherings, we build community, engage in meaningful dialogue about social issues, and explore our local neighborhoods. These sessions provide students with opportunities to cultivate cultural humility and grow their capacity to reflect and ask questions.
Community-engaged practices support MassArt students in developing skills that enable them to responsibly engage in and with our world.
Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) PartnershipWORKS event at the Roxbury Senior Center
Our PartnershipWORKS sessions have been great due to the energy and engaging community. Hearing from CACP alumni during our sessions has been great, and given me a lot of hope for my future. Breaking bread together and visiting locations outside of MassArt is really an engaging and thoughtful experience!Jess Stutman ‘25 BFA Animation
Find a Job through ParnershipWORKS
MassArt students interested in community-engaged work can search for CACP jobs through MassArt’s Employment Opportunities site or contact us to inquire. Our jobs are posted and filled at the beginning of the academic each year in August or September.
MassArt students can hold a variety of roles through PartnershipWORKS:
- Community Based Placements – work with a local mission-driven community organization off campus
- sparc! the ArtMobile – be part of the student team that plans and hosts art programs in the neighborhood
- Radical Welcomer – support the CACP office with day-to-day operations
Hear from Ciaran, a student at MassArt who discusses his experience working at Haley House through the Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) PartnershipWORKS. Watch more student stories
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BEcome a Community Partner
If you’re a local community organization interested in hosting a MassArt student to do creative work – please complete our Partnership Inquiry Form.
My work at my partner site has helped me become a more conscious educator, and I enjoy learning from the youth just as much as I enjoy teaching them.Kaitlyn Murray ‘26 BFA Art Education
