College students and recent graduates have the opportunity to volunteer on the Sheldon Jackson Campus through our Historic Restoration program. Interns work as a team with a construction foreman, learning new skills and contributing to the future of a historic campus. Projects will take place all over campus. Examples of past projects include work on Richard H. Allen Memorial Hall, a historic building that was listed as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2001, it was designated a national historic landmark. Thanks to the work of volunteers, staff, contractors, and past interns, Allen Hall will be fully renovated by summer 2015, complete with a theater, two dance studios, offices and a hospitality room.

​The internship is an unpaid volunteer program for the non-profit Sitka Fine Arts Camp. However, interns are provided with lodging in campus dormitories and meals in the campus cafeteria during the internship. Four days per week, Monday through Thursday, interns work on the rehabilitation of campus structures. Evenings and three-day weekends are spent out on the local hiking trails, engaging in community events, and exploring Sitka, Alaska.

Learn More

  • Read about Laura Blake’s experiences during the first Historic Restoration Program in the Summer 2012: Mind in Hand: The New Journal, Yale University
  • The third Historic Restoration Program, Summer 2014, focused on fulfilling the “Save it or Lose it” campaign to restore the historic Laundry Building. That summer, 26 interns restored the building’s roof.
  • The Summer 2015 program’s 25 interns took on the largest project to date by restoring the front facade of North Pacific Hall. A photo log of their effort and that of the 2014 program is available at the Historic Restoration Program’s website.
​Dates: 2019 TBA

Eligibility: College students and recent graduates. No carpentry experience required.

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What Our Campers Are Saying

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My teachers and the SFAC community at large have given me a home when I needed it. I'd like to able to do that for someone else someday!

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SFAC is life.

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For myself and many of Alaska’s youth, this camp is truly a life-changing experience. SFAC, as it is more commonly referred to, provides solutions to many of the challenges talented young people in Alaska face trying to pursue their passion for the arts. I believe that SFAC serves as a beacon for students like myself, which gathers us together to create the state-wide arts community which otherwise could not exist.

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Since being at SFAC, my drive to succeed has been the highest it has ever been, and the depression I've struggled with all my life has nearly vanished. This has been the foundation of my success as a musician and I hope it never ends, and carries on to the future generation for years and years to come.

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The bottom line of SFAC is, no matter who you are, what your story is, what the color of your skin, gender, or anything else, it is guaranteed you will make friends who love and accept you for who you are, counselors who care, a staff that wants the best for you, a community you can feel safe in, and overall a wonderful summer full of memories.

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