Teaching Artist

Queens Museum•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Queens Museum is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the New York metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of Queens, a uniquely diverse, ethnic, cultural, and international community. The Museum fulfills its mission by designing and providing art exhibitions, public programs, and educational experiences that promote the appreciation and enjoyment of art, support the creative efforts of artists, and enhance the quality of life through interpreting, collecting, and exhibiting art, architecture, and design. The Queens Museum’s Education Department offers a range of free and low-cost award-winning learning experiences that connect people across the lifespan with the Museum’s acclaimed exhibitions, collections, artist projects and public programs. They take place at the Museum and also at various community partner sites across the borough of Queens, a county of 2.4 million people and one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse places in the world. This community work includes long-term partnerships with over 30 Queens public schools, various Queens Library branches, hospitals, social service agencies, adult rehabilitation centers and much more. In all this work, the education department is committed to promoting the agency and imagination of all people, regardless of their backgrounds. Queens Museum teaching artists are part of a diverse team of creative, highly motivated, and thoughtful educators interested in working with diverse, multi-generational audiences, particularly our adult immigrant community. Teaching artists develop and lead various workshops and hands-on projects that promote ongoing learning in our adult immigrant community and through the arts and digital media. Ideal candidates will have experience teaching diverse immigrant audiences in a range of learning environments that bring fresh perspectives in creating new and innovative workshops that promote individual as well as community creative exploration. Queens Museum is looking to hire teaching artists that have experience that will support our dynamic Pre-K-12 school programs, customized in-school residencies, inclusive ArtAccess workshops for visitors with disabilities, drop-in family art-making days, teen leadership initiatives and seasonal camps.

Requirements

Education background in Studio Art, Museum Education, Art Therapy, Art History, Education, Architecture or related fields or its work experience equivalent

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and facilitating programming for people with disabilities
Experience as a teaching artist, arts educator, or art therapist
Experience designing lesson plans and/ or visual arts curriculum
Experience teaching in public school settings a plus
Experience with Collaborative Team Teaching environments and/ or inclusion classes
Studio art experience a plus
Ongoing personal visual art practice is a plus
Bilingual in any of the following languages is a plus: Spanish, Mandarin, Bangla, Arabic, Korean, ASL

Responsibilities

Create, design, and facilitate arts education programs, workshops, classes, tours, and community-based learning experiences that encourage not only artistic creation but also the construction and development of tools for growth and self-exploration.
Facilitate museum experiences and tours for groups of school groups and other groups visiting the Museum's exhibits.
Develop curricula related to each workshop as well as support lesson plans that integrate the Museum's permanent and changing exhibitions with content relevant to the immigrant community and educational program goals.
Adapt instruction to meet the needs of participants with diverse cultural, linguistic, educational, and learning backgrounds.
Create welcoming and inclusive learning environments that encourage participation and artistic exploration.
Prepare materials, supplies, and instructional resources necessary for successful program delivery.
Maintain accurate attendance records and program documentation as required.
Manage workload and complete all requirements of the teaching artist role within established deadlines and approved allocated time for each project. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to: curriculum and lesson planning; preparation of materials; travel time (when identified as part of the project scope); instructional or facilitation time; participant engagement and classroom management; documentation, assessment and reporting, room setup, room cleanup and restoration; and administrative tasks and deliverables directly related to the project
Participate in required orientation sessions, staff professional development workshops, seminars, and other activities with educational staff, curators, and other specialists.
Educators are expected to independently read recommended or assigned readings related to permanent and changing exhibitions.
Maintain and organize art materials for art-making sessions depending on the characteristics of each workshop and its different needs and logistics.
Compile the activities carried out at home as well as generate a digital lesson plan that can be consulted by both workshop attendees and collaborating teachers.