APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Over the course of 13 weeks, 10 Teaching Artists will meet weekly as a cohort to create and share in a community of peer artists and engage in professional development together. TAs will work as part of a teaching team with an emerging teaching artist and in consultation with high school aged youth, as well as staff. Teaching teams meeting weekly to co-design curriculum, do weekly planning and engage in weekly reflection. Teaching teams are responsible for co-facilitating one course in Marwen’s fall visual arts program offerings.

We are also hiring one teaching artist to lead the Marwen Lab Residency. The Lab Residency is a year long immersive program designed to support high-school-aged artists in the development of their arts practice and foster a community of support amongst emerging young artists. Teaching artists work with staff and emerging teaching artists to facilitate weekly, in-person meetings in which residents develop creative concepts, hone their artistic voices and engage in art-making.

ABOUT MARWEN:
Marwen educates and inspires young people. We provide year-round, out-of-school visual arts, pre-college programming, and career programs to young people from nearly every neighborhood in Chicago.
Teaching artists and education staff utilize the tools of creative youth development to facilitate programs in a wide range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, analog and digital photography, printmaking, animation, fashion design, and mixed media. For more information, visit www.marwen.org.

**Marwen is planning to run in-person classes, with limited virtual options. In-person classes will meet weekly at Marwen and adhere to safety protocols. Virtual classes will meet weekly on Zoom. In-person courses may transition to virtual, based on public health circumstances.

**Marwen is hiring a TA cohort to participate in both fall + spring terms (no application required for spring). Spring term programming timeline and in-person/virtual/hybrid plans will be decided by end of fall term.

STRONG CANDIDATES FOR THE TA PROGRAM:
- Previous facilitation of Chicago youth arts programs
- Commitment to creative youth development values of racial justice, collective action, and youth voice
- Commitment to building and contributing to collaborative environments, including cohorts, co-facilitation models, and teaching teams
- Have an artistic practice (Painting, Drawing, Ceramics, Fashion, Digital Photography, Printmaking/Print Media, Photography, etc.)

PROGRAM TIMELINE FOR FALL TERM:
August 15: Application deadline
Week of August 16 - 24: Interviews with select candidates
By August 27: Notification of cohort selection and teaching team pairing
Week of Sept 6: Program launches - cohort and teaching teams
Week of Oct 13: Courses begin
Week of Dec 16: Courses end
Week of Dec 13: Reflection and celebration

TIME COMMITMENT:
13 weeks: Sept 7 - Dec 15 (week of Nov. 21st off); 10 hours/week, mostly afternoons, exact schedule TBD
- Weekly cohort meeting (~1 to 1.5 hrs)
- Weekly planning and reflection meetings with teaching team (~1.5 hrs)
- 8 week studio course (2.5 hrs for in-person classes, 2 hrs for virtual classes)
- Additional planning time, art kit/supply support, individual check-ins, etc (~2hrs)

PAYMENT:
TAs are paid $45/hr for 10hrs/week for 13 weeks in the fall.  

APPLICATION:
Please complete all questions on this form and email your resume to careers@marwen.org. The deadline for submission of all application materials is August 15, 2021.

RETURNING APPLICANTS: If you have previously applied to the Marwen Teaching Artist Cohort in 2020 or 2021, we have your application and resume on file. You do not need to resubmit your materials, unless you would like to update your application or resume. You can confirm your interest in being considered this round by submitting your email and name and leaving the rest of this form blank except **please fill out your availability!**