Art Impact Marketing Agency
Learn the work. Do the work.
Earn from the work.
An ever-revolving and evolving mentorship for people —perhaps like you— who want to build real skills in building revenue through digital marketing: branding, design, content, and media, and who would rather be valued by what they produce and how they show up, than by the number of hours they sit.
What this is
Programs built for emerging talent may fall into one of two traps. The first is teaching without ever letting you touch anything real. The other is to hand you real work and never teach you a thing. Both leave you with a line on a resume and not much else.
The Art Impact Marketing Agency Apprentice Impact Mentorship Program was built to both teach and touch real-world digital agency assignments with real-world outcomes. In your first twelve weeks you learn how a creative agency actually operates, how a brand is developed, how assignments get planned, delivered, and paid for, and you practice it under the direction of agency leadership.
You’re not shadowing anyone. You’re producing.
Those twelve weeks are the structured beginning, not the end. Apprentices who do the work keep learning and keep earning with us well beyond them.
Why this exists
The youth program at a business expo event co-produced by the agency revealed an “Aha!-bigger-picture moment” for founder Alysyn Curd. In meeting young talent and finding inspiration in their ideas and aspirations, the need to officially structure and launch a program to pour into them became glaringly apparent.
Driven by the underlying mission to create opportunities for greatness, make a difference through impact, and ultimately leave a legacy of expertise and service with purpose in the independent agency space, the agency’s Apprentice Impact Mentorship Program was specifically developed to recognize, embrace, and elevate young and emerging talent.
For decades it was implemented informally, at random, and without title. Then came one especially talented and aspirational young adult. Thanks to that one person, the program became “real” and officially launched in Q4 2026.
The Apprentice Impact Mentorship Program is deliberately positioned to develop, serve, and benefit the next generation of creatives, business owners, operators, and community leaders. If you’re reading this, that next generation includes you.
Thus, by extension the agency is able to create —and leave— a positive impact on the world and for the future.
What you walk away with
Real deliverables for real clients, in a portfolio that proves what you can do. Not classroom exercises and not hypotheticals.
Earnings tied directly to work you did, and a documented record of having done it.
The standards, the process, and the vocabulary of a working agency. These travel with you anywhere you go next.
An agency that has seen what you can do, and that says so when someone asks.
Who it is for
You’ve got a business, or the beginning of one, and you need to learn how to position it, price it, and grow it to sustainable success.
Not everyone’s an entrepreneur, and not everyone should be. Some of the strongest people in this industry are specialists who became excellent at specific things. That path is fully respected here.
You know you’re capable and you haven’t yet found the shape of it. Real work is a faster way to find out than another year of guessing.
How it works
You tell us where you are, what you already do well, and what you want. We map that against the work the agency actually has, and agree on where you want to go.
You learn the agency's standard for the work. What finished looks like, what it does not, and why the difference is the entire business.
You take on real deliverables under direction. Your work is reviewed, refined, and revised until it meets our standards of excellence, which is exactly how it works for everyone here.
You carry your own scope, with earning attached to it. What you earn follows the value you create.
There is no graduation date. Movement four is where you stay: new work, new skills, and earning that grows as you do.
Straight talk
Some programs end up leaving a bad feeling when expectations are unclear —or worse— not discussed at all. So here’s what to expect and what not to, in writing, before you spend your time on an application.
If that reads as discouraging, it isn’t meant to. It’s meant to be accurate. People do their best work when they don’t feel misled about terms, conditions, and expectations.
What you need
We offer a video call check-in once a week, and we expect you to take it. It is mentorship rather than supervision, so nobody is penalized for missing one.
Everything else is teachable. Learnable. Achievable.
How to apply
About ten minutes. You can save it and come back to it if you need to.
It arrives by email as soon as we receive your application. It protects what you share with us and what we share with you, and it comes before any conversation. Signing it is a step in the process, not an acceptance.
Scheduled conversations with Angel, the agency’s business assistant, about your background, your interests, and your aspirations.
A video call conversation about where you fit, what you work on, and how earning specifically works for you.
If it’s a fit, the terms come to you in writing. Nothing is assumed and nothing is merely verbal.
Applications are reviewed as they arrive.
You hear back either way.