Volunteer!
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.
Scroll down to see volunteer opportunities, 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.
Beyond setting up and trouble shooting computers, he pursues a variety of interests: martial arts, triathlons, family genealogy, and American history.
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.
Jack VanBeveren
Development Intern
Jack VanBeveren
Jack VanBeveren is a sophomore Writing and Rhetoric major at Syracuse University who is interested in art and art history. A native of Central New York, he joined the Poster Project for its unique combination of art and writing. He hopes to gain grant writing skills, to help the Poster Project and other non-profit organizations. In his free time, Jack enjoys making art, looking at art, and talking about art.
Hannah Baycura
Social Media and Marketing Volunteer
Hannah Baycura
Hannah Baycura, a native of Central New York with a background in economics and psychology from Binghamton University, is currently studying for a Digital Writing Micro-credential at OCC. She’s interested in social media marketing and creating quality visual content. In her spare time, she enjoys taking long walks while listening to a podcast, spending time with her cat, dancing, and watching a good movie. She’s looking forward to gaining more experience in the social media marketing space with the Poster Project.
Henryk Tunguz
Information Technology Volunteer
Henryk Tunguz
Henryk has lived in Camillus since grade school, but came to Central New York in a round-about way. As a child, he lived for five years in Wallonia, the southern, French-speaking region of Belgium. He grew up liking Belgian French fries and waffles, and speaking French, in which he still has fluency.
After Belgium, he lived in New Jersey for eight years, before moving to CNY. He attended West Genesee middle school and high school, then studied at Rochester Institute of Technology for a degree in software engineering.
He has worked in the administration of cloud computing services and computer infrastructure administration. When he's not working, he likes to putter around in his basement on DIY projects. His latest involves customizing an arcade game where players play a traditional Japanese drum to a stream of music, somewhat like karaoke for drummers.
Shayla Betts
Volunteer civic art curator
Shayla Betts
Shayla Betts joined us in May of 2026 as a volunteer civic art curator. She is a native of Kansas City, MO, and lives there with her mother, father, and sister. As a youth, she attended performing arts schools, and developed a love for art, performing arts, and music. Presently she is pursuing a bachelor's degree in art history through Arizona State University. Along the way, she was a contributor to “The French Paintings Catalogue,” published in 2021 by the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art—a proud moment for Shayla.
Shayla enjoys a variety of art, but especially mixed media, contemporary, and art reflecting specific cultures. In music, her tastes range wide—pop, rock, R&B, K-pop and Bollywood. In movies, she leans to Marvel, Disney, and comedy. And with reading, she goes with mysteries, fantasy and art. Preferred superheroes? Thor, Loki, Black Panther, and Captain America.
Shayla is the rare volunteer who works with us remotely, from her home in Kansas City. She helps us research and curate additional work from our poster artists, as well as from other civic artists around the country.
Volunteer Opportunities
Testimonials
from our interns and volunteers
I liked working for the Syracuse Poster Project because of the project's continuous output of locally-produced poster art into the Syracuse community. Working for the Project made me rethink my ideas on how art can be made accessible, and in turn, accessed. As I continue with my studies, and in my professional life, I want to continue finding opportunities like this to make art accessible to many people, in a culture that feels always in a rush.
I really enjoyed working with you. I find myself lucky to work as a volunteer for Syracuse Poster Project. I have learned many new things during my work. If there is anything I can help you with in future, it will be my honor. Thanks again for your time and providing me this opportunity.
Being an intern in Poster Project enriches my experience, and your instructions enable me to make progress. Thank you for providing me this opportunity and giving me valuable suggestions. Thank you, Jim.
I want to say thank you very very much for all your patience and kindness! I learned a lot from my internship in your team, not only improving my professional skills but also enhance my interpersonal communication skills. Your help, patience, and kindness are priceless and I really appreciate them. Thank you again for all my experience in your team!
I’m so grateful to have been involved with the Syracuse Poster Project! It’s something I still enjoy talking about to this day. It was such a valuable experience to me as a young, aspiring designer.
I’m thrilled to have landed work in my field, especially in this job market. And I’m especially grateful to you and your conscientious approach to making sure I experienced different aspects of grant writing and development work, as I don’t think I’d have gotten my job, or got the interviews I did, without this volunteer work.
Being in PP allows me to look at Syracuse from a different perspective. As a SU student, I kinda thought Syracuse is just made up of the school and the students, now I realize I was kinda ignorant haha! Syracuse is so much more! I love how the downtown community is closely knitted, you seem like you know every shop owner in downtown, and most of them know you and PP! Almost every person I met is kind and friendly -- Naomi, Yunhui, Kate, Mary Ann, Eric. Being able to work with you all was a pleasure!
