Employment Development Program

Omni Center Employment Development Program helps motivated job candidates find and retain employment in their communities through classes, 1-on-1 coaching, empowerment fairs and hiring events. 

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1. Exhibitions

The Omni Center endeavors to create a variety of programming that shines a spotlight on the full spectrum of artistry –the known, the unknown, the traditional and the cutting edge.

 

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2.   Outreach and Education

Because of our St. Louis Metro Area focus, Omni Center’s outreach efforts will extend to local neighborhoods and ethnic communities, neighborhood cultural institutions, the St. Louis Public Schools and the St. Louis Metro Area Park District. We build relationships and partnerships with communities and institutions to enhance the overall understanding of St. Louis’s unique cultural vitality, and create a sound Multidimensional institution with strong civic ties to its community. We will offer educational programs and workshops that provide children as young as four years access to the arts through hands-on classroom work at the facility, lecture series and direct contact with professional artists. We have begun laying the groundwork for these relationships by meeting with key individuals in the aforementioned institutions and organizations.

 

 

3.   Career Building and Mentoring 

One of the paramount focuses of Omni Center is the promotion of career building, an endeavor no other museum addresses. We will serve as an incubator, an institution that is available to college graduates by providing mentors and an ongoing exhibition program that directly supports recent graduates.  The Omni Center will provide direct support through a step-by-step process that will show young artists how to prepare for exhibitions, review and selecting works for show, and work hand in hand with a mentor who can provide meaningful dialogue about professional career development. This effort will begin upon the opening of the permanent space.

 

Additionally, we will maintain a flat file chronicle to house roughly 500 artists’ works. This will enable a great number of artists to have their work, emphasizing the young, underexposed artist for whom the traditional model of facilities that once fostered like programs, lacked personal relevance.  This will go a long way towards exposing the public to these artists, and artists to each other’s work.