Summer Program Teaching Artists

Brooklyn Arts Council

Brooklyn, NY

US

CONTACT NAME

Allie Marotta

Job Details

DESCRIPTION

Call for Teaching Artists for

Summer Programs at Brooklyn Arts Council

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is thrilled to pilot a new summer program for elementary and middle school-aged students in Brooklyn this year! The program will offer a one-week deep dive into an art form for students to hone their artistic skills while developing additional transferable skills like collaboration, critical thinking, environmental awareness, and technology skills. To see this listing in Spanish, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese, please see here: https://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/what-we-do/arts-in-education

Eco-Textile Art

Students entering 1st – 4th grade in Fall 2024

Windsor Terrace: July 15, 2024 – 19, 10am – 1pm

Brownsville: July 22, 2024 – 26, 10am – 1pm

Taking place both indoors and outdoors, students will explore and create amidst nature’s wonders. Through textile art, nature journaling, and eco-art, students can expect to hone their artistic skills through weaving, sketching, collaging, and more while also fostering a deep connection with our environment, both locally and globally. This journey of discovery and creativity will help prepare today’s students to be tomorrow’s ecological stewards of Brooklyn!

Eco-Tech Art

Students entering 5th – 8th grade in Fall 2024

Windsor Terrace: July 15, 2024 – 19, 1pm – 4pm

Brownsville: July 22 – 26, 2024, 1pm – 4pm

In this program, students will engage with various aspects of technology such as digital media, coding, and game design as a way to explore the natural world around them. By blending outdoor excursions with tech-based workshops, students will discover how technology can be a tool for understanding, preserving, and appreciating our local environment. Through this experience, students will be prepared to shape tomorrow’s ecological landscape in Brooklyn and around the world!

Additional Information

• The programming will take place in a combination of indoors and outdoors, in a library and park that are nearby each other.
• Each class will be co-taught by two teaching artists, you may apply together with a co-teaching artist and submit the same lesson plan, but it is not required.
• All teaching artists selected to facilitate the programming must be fingerprinted by the DOE, be a current Mandated Reporter, and have current first aid and CPR training. You can still apply if you do not currently hold these qualifications, it can be arranged for you to complete them prior to the programming if selected to move forward.
• Teaching artists will receive additional paid time for lesson planning and paperwork.
• Teaching artists will be paid as a W2 employee of Brooklyn Arts Council and will be required to submit tax forms and timesheets on our payroll website.
• You do not need to be a current or former teaching artist with BAC to apply. Current teaching artists will not automatically be considered and must apply to be considered.

How to Apply

• Applications must be completed in one sitting, it is not possible to save your progress and return to the application at a later time.
• Applications will be assessed in a “blind” process to ensure equal consideration. Be sure to upload copies of your cover letter, resume, and artistic samples that DO NOT include your name or other identifying information.
• The application will ask for general contact information, details about your teaching experience, optional demographic information, and an upload of a CV/resume, sample lesson plan that is applicable to the program you are applying for, and two professional references.
• Fill out all the information on the application form and click submit.
• Application submissions are due by June 16, 2024.
• Teaching artists who are selected to move forward in the application process to a short Zoom interview will be notified by June 24, 2024.
• Application in English: https://bit.ly/TA-application-english
• Application in Spanish: https://bit.ly/TA-application-spanish
• Application in Simplified Chinese: https://bit.ly/TA-application-simplified-chinese
• Application in Traditional Chinese: https://bit.ly/TA-application-traditional-chinese

For questions, please contact BAC’s Coordinator for School Programs, Allie Marotta, [email protected], no calls please.

About the BAC Arts in Education (AIE) Department

BAC’s AIE Department is a creative powerhouse, enriching the Brooklyn community through accessible arts education. Our programs empower individuals by fostering creativity, cultural understanding, and self-expression. We integrate arts into the community through our Creative Pathways, Our Voices, Catalyst, and Global Rhythms school programs, Creative Aging residencies at older adult centers, and community programming across the borough. This programming nurtures critical thinking and innovation, creates artistic engagement, and enhances well-being and social interaction. We seek to energize neighborhoods, communities, and schools to revitalize public spaces and foster unity. Together, we create a vibrant Brooklyn where art transforms lives. Learn more here.

Our Educational Goals

• Foster creativity and imagination
• Expand verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Enhance capacities for critical thinking and problem-solving
• Fortify social-emotional skills (e.g. risk-taking, collaboration)
• Provide student-centered, culturally responsive teaching

Our Mission: Empowering & Enriching

Our programs empower and enrich artists and communities by connecting them to one another. We employ artists to produce dynamic, creative, educational programs in schools, senior centers, and local community spaces that open pathways for relationships, resources, and inspiration. Our programs nurture the transformative and generative power of the arts at the intersection of creative learning and labor.

Our Vision: Nurturing & Liberating

We envision a creative learning ecosystem that is nurturing, liberating, and responsive. This community network — including students and artists of all ages, cultures, genders, and economic means — makes opportunities for artistic expression and professional development accessible, empowering, and transformative.

Our Values: Honoring & Collaborating

We value creative learning approaches of cultural responsiveness, inclusive collaboration, empathy, respect, and excellence through authenticity. We believe these approaches empower artists and learners by fostering the safety to be problem-solvers, facilitating the inspiration to be creative, activating the tools to be adaptive, strengthening the support to be brave, and unleashing the freedom to be unique.

About Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)

Celebrating more than 57 years of service, BAC is the borough’s leading nonprofit organization supporting artists and cultural groups in all disciplines. BAC is committed to serving the arts ecosystem through grants, professional development, cultural heritage programming, and arts education provided via distance learning. By creating and supporting cultural events and platforms for Brooklynites, BAC provides forums for critical thinking and self-expression, enriches Brooklyn’s cultural landscape, and generates experiences that expand horizons. Learn more here.

Brooklyn Arts Council strives to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where our employees and volunteers – whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education, or ability – feel valued and respected.

DURATION

Jul 15, 2024 – Jul 26, 2024

SALARY

$85.00 – $85.00 per hour

HOW TO APPLY

APPLY ONLINE

https://bit.ly/TA-application-english

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