What are the responsibilities and job description for the Guest Artist position at Westminster University?
Job Description
Job Description
Westminster University
Guest Artist
PRN (as needed)
Position Summary
As a key arts and culture hub in Sugar House, the Westminster Performing Arts Center is dedicated to fostering outstanding performance opportunities for Westminster University students through collaborations with professional artists.
Westminster strives for inclusive excellence by consistently interweaving diversity and inclusion into our curricula and co-curricular activities, programs, policies, practices, and external engagement. As part of this statement, we define diversity as individual differences, life experiences, group / social differences (e.g., race / ethnicity, class, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and disability), historically underrepresented groups, and groups with cultural, political, religious / spiritual, or other affiliations (Adapted from the AAC&U).
The Dance, Music, and Theatre programs at Westminster seek Guest Artists interested in working with us on future performances on a project-by-project basis :
Dance
- Composers
- Guest choreographers for mainstage productions.
- Collaborative musicians.
- Costume and lighting designers.
- Masterclasses.
- Dance Dramaturgs
Music
Theatre
Preferred qualifications :
If you are interested in working with our performing arts programs and students, please submit the following :
Required
Optional but highly recommended
The Westminster Performing Arts Center strongly believes in fair and equitable compensation for artists. Compensation varies based on scope and duration of guest artists' roles but is generally based on Westminster University’s adjunct payrate per credit.
All guest artists working with our students are required to pass a background check and adhere to our values of healthy creative and working environments.
This is an applicant pool for short term / temporary positions. If an artist in your area of expertise is needed, you’ll be contacted by the respective program chair. Please visit Westminster’s Employment page to for other faculty or staff openings.
