Teaching Artist 6311arts art center $30/hr

Chicago Artists Coalition; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Space provided

Registration handled

Marketing support

Students provided

Job summary

6311arts is seeking skilled teaching artists to develop and lead hands-on workshops at 6311 N. Clark St. in Chicago.

Instructors provide the curriculum, instruction, and supply lists while the organization handles space, registration, marketing, and student enrollment. Workshops vary from single-day sessions to multi-week series across disciplines such as printmaking, painting, drawing, and sculpture, welcoming artists at all levels and emphasizing technique and craft.

Qualifications

• Working artists who teach; classroom experience welcomed.
• Ability to develop and deliver workshops across multiple levels.
• Strong communication and organizing skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver workshop sessions and adapt to beginner to advanced levels.
• Create curriculum and supply lists for each workshop.
• Coordinate with organizers on registration and marketing.

Skills

Curriculum development

Teaching

Public speaking

Workshop facilitation

Job description

TEACHING ARTISTS — WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS

6311 N. Clark St., Chicago · Contract, per workshop · $30/hour · Rolling

THE WORK

We’re looking for teaching artists as we build out our calendar of workshops —

Some are One- or Two-day

Some will be a series — Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced — focused on technique.

• You bring: the curriculum, the instruction, and a supply list.
• We bring: the space, registration, marketing, and students.

COMPENSATION

Instructor pay is $30/hour.

DISCIPLINES

We are currently looking for the following — and any other techniques you’d like to propose.
If you teach and love it, propose it.

• Copper plate printing
• Egg tempera
• Silverpoint drawing
• Water gilding + gold leaf
• Anatomy for artists
• Color theory — beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Gouache
• Botanical illustration
• Figure sculpture from the live model — oil clay, no kiln
• Shibori indigo dyeing
• Visible mending + sashiko
• Kintsugi
• Encaustic
• Illuminated letters — broad pen plus gilding
• Ikebana
• Watercolor — beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Acrylic — beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Figure drawing with live model — beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Hand embroidery hoop
• Needle felting
• Punch needle basics
• Macramé
• Mosaic — beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Alcohol ink
• Water marbling
• Wire-wrapped jewelry basics
• Holiday ornaments — (cool, not lame!)

WHO SHOULD APPLY

Working artists who teach, at every stage and every path. Classroom experience is welcome; command of your technique is the requirement.

6311arts is committed to a community where every race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity belongs — and a particular welcome to artists whose identities have too often been pushed to the margins.

ABOUT 6311ARTS

6311arts is a Chicago-based art center at 6311 N. Clark Street in Edgewater — an inclusive, approachable, neighborhood-centered space where artists and audiences of all backgrounds gather. We have three rotating galleries, a shop with work from more than 60 local artists, a workshop program, and a printmaking facility we’re building into a working print hub for the North Side. We show and support Chicago-area artists at every stage and every path.

6311arts · 6311 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60660 · 6311arts.com · @6311arts