Teaching Artist - Visual Arts

Articulture is seeking part-time contractual teaching artists for children, teen and/or adult art classes.

We are presently looking for an experienced teaching artist interested in working with children spring session, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, March - May in our partnership with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) elementary after school programs. We work with a number of local schools offering high quality art classes within after school programs throughout the school year. Some schools no longer have arts programming and this is the one opportunity students may have for a creative experience and outlet.

Additionally, we are seeking teaching artists experienced in various visual arts disciplines such as: drawing, painting, printmaking, fashion design, comics/animation, water media, bookmaking/binding, paper making, etc. And in fine crafts such as spoon carving, leather work and shoemaking, fiber arts, welding, blacksmithing, etc.

We offer year-round visual arts classes and workshops to adults, and various outreach programs for children and teens.

We have relationships with a number of MPS after school programs who turn to us for quality arts programming. These teaching positions are ongoing throughout the school year. We also offer in school art-in-residencies when opportunities exist.

Grant funded partnerships working with social service organizations offer Art and Healing classes for vulnerable and marginalized populations. We focus on self-identity, self-worth, a sense of belonging, and exploring avenues of meditation and hope through creativity. Examples of populations we have worked with include adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses, women in substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation, houseless youth and adults, affordable housing programs, and at-risk teens, elder learners, and those with developmental and physical disabilities.

There are occasional opportunities to work on community public art with our Youth Arts Collaborative (YAC) public art program, which engages urban teens and our teaching artists to problem solve with organizations and communities through the creation of public art. The core of our community public art projects revolve around youth mentoring and issues of social change.

• Please send a teaching resume and samples of your artwork or link to a website.
• Past visual arts teaching experience is a must.
• Familiarity working with vulnerable and marginalized populations is a plus.

Articulture is located in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, and has been offering high quality visual arts education to all ages and abilities for 26 years. Arts learning is at the heart of all our programs, with a mission of: empowering individuals and communities to create positive change through the visual arts. Focusing on the creative process, we embrace how arts education ties into brain development and life skills, while supporting academic and lifelong learning.

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