How to Help
If you like seeing Syracuse art in public places, help make it happen! Our poets and artists produce beautiful work. But to share this work with the broader community and make it financially viable entails an array of tasks. Help us by volunteering. You’ll get to share skills, learn new skills, and work with artists, poets and other champions of public art in Syracuse.
Our nonprofit group has a board of directors, a team of volunteers, and opportunities for high school and college interns. We meet for regular work sessions at Commonspace Work, second floor, 201 E. Jefferson St.
Check the volunteer opportunities below, find one that inspires you, and contact us.
For an informative story about the value of volunteering, read this article from the New York Times.
Finally, to familiarize yourself with our interns and volunteers by checking out their favorite music, visit their YouTube Playlist.
Current Volunteers and Interns
Eric Stein
IT Volunteer
Eric Stein
Eric Stein, an IT technician at Syracuse's Hancock Airport, helps with information technology tasks.
CeCe Sutton
Volunteer
CeCe Sutton
Born a "maker" in Orange County NY, CeCe moved with her parents to Lower Alabama when she was 12. After 50 years of life as a restaurant hostess, barber, graphic designer, event planner, retail manager, landscape designer and administrative assistant in the South, she moved back to New York in 2020 as part of the great Covid rethink-your-life shift. She is a long-standing quilter and self-taught glass artist, working in kiln fused glass, mosaic, and stained glass. She believes that art is healing and provides an outlet for both the creator and the viewer, allowing us to come together by sharing our common experiences. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, dancing, and traveling and camping in her motorhome with her sisters and her cat, Frankie.
Austin McClaskey
Graphic Design Intern
Austin McClaskey
Austin came to us from Bryant & Stratton College, where he's studying graphic design. He grew up in Baldwinsville, NY, and graduated from C.W. Baker High School in 2016. He has had a passion for graphic design ever since he took classes about it in high school. In his spare time he likes creating content for his YouTube channel, listening to music, and reading, especially books that contain epic fantasy. Imagine Dragons is his favorite band. He also enjoys watching anime and playing Dungeons and Dragons on a weekly basis.
Jianghui Li
Information Technology Intern
Jianghui Li
Jianghui Li is an international graduate student at Syracuse University’s iSchool, majoring in Information Systems. He is a native of Jiangxi, China, a southeast province known for its picturesque landscapes of rice fields, rivers, and mountains.
His studies focus on how information and computing systems affect humans and society, and how to help people make more informed decisions. Outside of academics, he’s passionate about fishing, and often goes bass fishing in the Old Erie Canal. He also enjoys drawing and appreciating art, which is what drew him to the Poster Project. He is serving as an information technology intern through the summer of 2024, helping us with database and website management.
Jon LaDuca
Social Media and Visual Narrative Intern
Jon LaDuca
Jon is our social media and visual narrative intern for the summer. In the fall, he’ll be entering his senior year at LeMoyne College, where he’s studying literature with a concentration in creative writing. He grew up in Auburn and attended high school in Syracuse. For college, he moved to Long Island, where he studied film production at Hofstra University.
After two years in Long Island, he discovered a love for writing, and moved back to Central New York to continue his education closer to home. He is a published freelance photographer working in event photography and portraits for Syracuse.com, as well as a landscape photographer selling prints out of his apartment in Onondaga. You can view Jon's photos on his Instagram account.
“I am interning with The Syracuse Poster Project because of my love for art and storytelling,” he said, “and to give back to the city that has brought me tremendous opportunity and support.”
Midhuneshwar Kanivalavan
Information Management Intern
Midhuneshwar Kanivalavan
Midhuneshwar Kanivalavan, or "M.K.", an SU grad student in Computer and Information Science, is our latest database and website management intern.
John Kulak
Volunteer
John Kulak
John is a Syracuse native living in Baldwinsville and working in higher education. As a student, he enjoyed taking as many art classes as possible in high school then went on to study creative writing in college. Now, as a working professional, he volunteers his time at the Poster Project out of a desire to celebrate and strengthen Syracuse’s creative community. John spends one evening a week after work helping out at the Poster Project with a variety of tasks, whatever may be needed! He also enjoys the CNY festival scene, getting outdoors, exercising, and card games.