Explore Antigua
Walk historic cobblestone streets and discover local markets, creative spaces, architecture, and food.
One week in Guatemala
Create alongside local participants
Creative workshops & community
Reflection, faith & celebration
I AM ART is a collaborative creative experience where people of different cultures and backgrounds create, learn, and grow together through art. It’s not about showing up, building a program — it’s about relationships, mutual learning, and being part of what God is already doing.
THE EXPERIENCE
Each gathering follows a creative process shaped for its people and purpose.
Help guide young women at Oasis through hands-on art activities that invite them to explore ideas, express themselves, and discover new possibilities. You’ll share your creative skills while making room for each participant’s imagination and voice. The process matters as much as the finished artwork.
Work with Athentikos, Oasis staff, and your teammates to prepare and facilitate the art camp. Share ideas, help with materials, and adapt activities to the participants’ interests and needs. By listening to local leaders and supporting one another, you’ll help create an encouraging environment where everyone can participate.
Build relationships with the young women and team members through shared creative activities, conversation, and everyday moments during camp. Listen, learn, and offer encouragement as you create together. These small interactions help build trust and communicate that each person and their story matters.
Take time with your team to process the day’s experiences through conversation, prayer, and faith-centered reflection. Consider what you’re learning about creativity, service, relationships, and your own story. Reflection helps you respond thoughtfully during camp and carry those lessons into life at home.
OPTIONAL EXCURSION
Slow down after your I AM ART week with two nights in Antigua. Explore Guatemala’s culture and enjoy unhurried time together before traveling home.
A LITTLE MORE TIME TOGETHER
After a week of serving and creating, this extension makes room to reflect, connect with your teammates, and enjoy more of Guatemala.
Walk historic cobblestone streets and discover local markets, creative spaces, architecture, and food.
Take in panoramic views, art, gardens, and the landscape surrounding Antigua.
Visit a local coffee plantation to learn how Guatemalan coffee is grown and produced.
No. I AM ART emphasizes meaningful creative participation and relationship rather than artistic skill.
No. Christian belief is not an eligibility requirement. Athentikos is faith-based, and faith may be part of the experience.
Expect creative activities, relationship, reflection, shared meals or gatherings where applicable, and context shaped with local partners.
No. I AM ART is a non-clinical creative experience and does not provide mental-health treatment.
You will receive the relevant registration, preparation, travel, team, or local-contact information for this opportunity.
Submitting a registration, application, or deposit does not guarantee participation until Athentikos or the appropriate team/partner confirms your place. Participants must complete required forms, payments, preparation steps, travel documentation, and any applicable screening by the stated deadlines. Athentikos may decline or discontinue participation when reasonably necessary for safety, conduct, eligibility, team readiness, partner requirements, or the wellbeing of participants and communities.
Athentikos may commit participant funds in advance for lodging, transportation, program preparation, partner commitments, supplies, reservations, and other nonrecoverable costs. As a result, some or all payments may become nonrefundable as the experience approaches. Any experience-specific payment or cancellation schedule communicated during registration controls if it differs from these general terms. Participants are encouraged to consider travel cancellation/interruption coverage for expenses they could lose if unable to participate.
Athentikos may modify dates, itinerary, lodging, activities, transportation, partners, staffing, or other arrangements when conditions reasonably require, including safety concerns, weather, transportation disruption, partner needs, government restrictions, health concerns, or events outside Athentikos’ reasonable control. If Athentikos cancels or materially changes an experience, it will communicate available options after accounting for funds already committed or unrecoverable on the participant’s behalf. Unless expressly stated otherwise, Athentikos is not responsible for airfare or other travel purchased independently by the participant.
Participants are responsible for obtaining and maintaining any required passport, visa, permission, vaccination documentation, or other travel document and for confirming applicable entry, exit, and passport-validity requirements. Participants must comply with the laws and requirements of the countries and communities in which the experience takes place.
Participants are responsible for determining whether they are physically and medically able to participate and for sharing relevant accommodation or safety needs through the appropriate confidential process. Unless Athentikos specifically states that coverage is provided, participants are responsible for their own medical, travel, trip-cancellation/interruption, and medical-evacuation coverage, as appropriate to the experience.
Travel, transportation, unfamiliar environments, weather, illness, physical activity, and changing local conditions involve risks that cannot be eliminated completely. Athentikos will take reasonable steps to plan responsibly and work with local partners, but it cannot guarantee an experience free from risk, delay, disruption, or loss. Participants are expected to follow Athentikos, team-leader, host-partner, and local safety guidance.
Participants are expected to conduct themselves with humility, cultural respect, appropriate boundaries, and consideration for teammates, partners, participants, and local communities. Participants must follow safeguarding expectations, local laws, team guidelines, and instructions from designated leaders. Athentikos may remove a participant from an activity or experience when conduct creates a material safety, safeguarding, legal, relational, or mission concern. Costs resulting from participant misconduct or an avoidable early departure may remain the participant’s responsibility.
Athentikos is a Christian faith-based organization. Christian belief is not an eligibility requirement for an Open I AM ART experience unless an opportunity explicitly states otherwise, but participants should understand that prayer, Scripture, worship, faith conversations, or other Christian practices may be part of the experience. Participation in personal disclosure, prayer aloud, or other individual spiritual responses should not be coerced.
Athentikos works with local partner organizations and may use independent providers for lodging, transportation, meals, excursions, and other services. Availability and arrangements may change. Athentikos will make reasonable efforts to select and coordinate providers responsibly but cannot control every act, omission, delay, or service of an independent provider.
Photography, video, testimonials, story publication, evaluation, and follow-up are governed by the permissions and consent processes applicable to the experience. Participation does not automatically grant Athentikos permission to publish a participant’s personal story, sensitive information, image, or likeness beyond the permissions actually provided.
Optional excursions are separate from the core I AM ART experience. Participation is voluntary and may involve additional cost, physical activity, transportation, third-party services, or schedule requirements. Choosing not to participate in an optional excursion will not affect eligibility for or participation in the core I AM ART experience. Participants should review the excursion’s stated inclusions, exclusions, activity expectations, and payment terms before adding it.
Unless specifically listed as included, participants should expect to be responsible for airfare, passports or visas, vaccinations or medical preparation, travel insurance, personal purchases, baggage or airline fees, meals or activities outside the official itinerary, and other individual expenses.
These terms supplement any experience-specific registration forms, releases, consent forms, safeguarding requirements, or partner/team instructions. By completing registration, participants acknowledge that they have reviewed the opportunity information and applicable terms, understand the faith-based and travel/service context where relevant, and agree to complete any additional required documents before participation. For minors, parent or guardian permissions and additional requirements may apply.
Policy version 2026-09-13