The Oak Park Art League offers volunteer opportunities for high schoolers as well as college internships for students interested in arts administration and course credit.  

The OPAL staff works to create projects to fit the interests of youth interns so they can gain valuable experience and help make a contribution to our organization.

If you are interested in volunteer or course credit internships, please contact us here.

The Oak Park Art League offers Family stARTs, a free drop in youth art making opportunity twice a month for families to create together. We invite a variety of guest artists to bring different techniques and ideas to theses sessions. In addition to this we wanted to offer the guest artists some assistance and area teens with an interest in art, education and working with kids a paid leadership opportunity.

the Oak Park Art League offers Family stARTs, a free, drop in youth art making opportunity twice a month for families to create together. The sessions are scheduled on second and fourth Saturdays of each month from 10am - noon. We invite a variety of guest artists to bring different techniques and ideas to these sessions.

First Sunday and Thursday of each month, OPAL figure sessions will feature a clothed model. Open to teens 12+

OPAL partners with schools outside Oak Park to bring art programs to underserved youth.
With generous sponsorship from the Mammel Family Foundation, OPAL was able to facilitate a visiting art instructor at St. Angela School in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago for three years providing art classes and activities to 190 elementary and high school youth per week.