Woodruff Arts Center employees play an integral role in creating and supporting great art and education initiatives at the nation's third largest arts center. Comprised of three Art Partners-Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and High Museum of Art-there's a role for everyone at The Woodruff.
Reports to:
Assistant Director, Education
FLSA:
United States of America (Non-Exempt)
Employment Status :
Temporary/Part time
The High Museum of Art's Learning and Civic Engagement Department is committed to creating audience-focused, accessible, and engaging experiences with art that allow visitors to gain new understanding of art and ideas, develop their creative and technical art-making skills, and connect more deeply with themselves, each other, the museum, and the arts more broadly. Rooted in the museum's guiding principles-growth, inclusivity, connectivity, collaboration-and the methods of the department, HMA Teaching Artists work as part of a dynamic team of educators to co-develop and facilitate studio- and gallery-based programs for learners of all ages, including PreK-12 students, adults, and older adults through programs offered to the public or in partnership with schools and other community-based organizations.
This position is classified as part-time, temporary, and may not exceed 32 hours per week. Teaching Artists are scheduled based on program demand and individual availability. The museum cannot guarantee a minimum number of hours to any individual Teaching Artist. HMA Teaching Artists are paid $50/hour for program facilitation, and $35/hour for program research and development.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Art Conversation Development and Instruction (70%)

Working closely with Learning and Civic Engagement department staff, develop and facilitate inquiry-based conversation programs about the High's collection and special exhibitions. Art conversations can take place at the museum or virtually. Creative Aging and Lifelong Learning conversation programs are geared toward a diverse 55 audience, and include Conversation Pieces, Musing Together, as well as partnerships offered to organizations that serve grandparents raising grandchildren, older adults with disabilities or chronic illnesses, older adults at risk for social isolation or loneliness, among other community members. Education conversation programs... School programs and audiences include PreKindergarten through 12th grade students and educators, including students and educators with behavioral, physical, cognitive, and developmental disabilities. Planning includes meeting with internal and external staff to discuss audience goals and needs, research collections and exhibitions, and preparing tour materials. Instruction includes facilitating inquiry-based conversations that prompt attendees to engage with artworks, learn new information, and connect with themselves and each other.

• Professional Learning for Educators (10%)

Working closely with the Assistant Director, Education, design and facilitate onsite professional learning seminars for PreK-12 educators that highlight curricular connections between the museum's collections and special exhibitions and the classroom. Planning includes meeting with internal and external staff to discuss educator goals and needs, research collections and exhibitions, and preparing tour materials. Instruction includes facilitating inquiry-based conversations and in-gallery demonstrations that prompt attendees to engage with artworks and connect works of art to classroom curriculum.

• Studio Workshop Development and Instruction (10%)

Working closely with the Learning and Civic Engagement department staff and fellow Teaching Artists, co-develop, prepare for, and facilitate studio workshops for a variety of audiences as described above. Planning includes researching museum collections and exhibitions, developing lesson plans and program descriptions, compiling supply lists, and creating supplemental resources. Facilitation includes classroom set up/breakdown, technical instruction in the studios, and assistance with class evaluation.

• Professional Development (10%)

Attend annual, weeklong teaching intensive series in August. Attend monthly professional development meetings to expand teaching skills and knowledge of museum audiences.